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Process of pollen transfer in plants, enabling fertilization and sexual reproduction.

Process of pollen transfer in plants, enabling fertilization and sexual reproduction.

Pollination is desirable if you wish to produce seeds for propagation, or to produce fruit for consumption.

Different plants have different methods of pollination - eg. wind, insects, birds. Most plants will not require human help, but occasionally this may be beneficial if the plant does not pollinate easily, or if you wish produce a hybrid.

Use this tag for all of your plant pollination questions.

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Red streaks in Louisiana sweet oranges

We have orange trees that have always produced "orange flesh" oranges. This year a few of the oranges have red streaks in them. Is is possible that this year the flowers were crossed with a blood orange tree?
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Are Lady slipper orchids self fertile, and how can you pollinate them?

I am trying to get seeds from a certain orchid (Lady slipper) I have. Are they self fertile? What would be the best way to pollinate them? The genus is Cypripedium
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Do cloned tomatillos pollinate each other?

For tomatillos that require a pollinator, if I have only one tomatillo plant, but I root some cuttings from it, will the plants pollinate the other clones (and/or the parent)? They're all from the same plant, originally, and should be clones. So,…
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When should I hang my mason bee house?

I bought a mason bee house from gardener's supply and I am wondering when should I hang it up? I am in Berks county, PA. Here is the link : http://www.gardeners.com/Mason-Bee-House/37-481,default,pd.html Thanks.
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How to make sure a sunflower produces seed?

I started a single sunflower, a giant cultivar called 'Titan', it's been doing well so far. I want to have valid (or, is the better word 'viable'?) seeds from it at the end of season. They don't have to be producing the original cultivar, I just…
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Deer ate my lily buds last year. Will the bulbs survive this year?

My mother has been raising an ever-growing family of lilies of various colors for the past 15 years. In the previous house, they would grow to almost 6-foot tall while in the new house (which gets a lot more sun), they stay around 3'-4'. She is sure…
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Can a topworked female pistachio tree be pollinated by grafting a male bud or scion?

If one has female pistachio trees coming into bearing age, can they be pollinated by grafting a male bud or scion onto a topworked female? If so, assuming it's done early in grafting season and with more than one scion to improve the rate of…
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Scorpion Pepper growth

Backstory Hey everyone, first post in this stack, so sorry if I didn't see an answer to these questions (I did check though). So I have a Scorpion Butch T plant that I bought about 2 months ago (63 days). It was already grown to ~9 inches tall, but…
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Do sterile plants still produce pollen or nectar?

While reading on certain plants, I often read that some of their hybrid varieties are sterile. While it seems clear that the plant will not produce offspring I'm not sure if it still produces pollen which is one of the main component of plant…
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Brassicas seed saving

I plan on growing a few different brassicas such as cabbages and bok choy, and I'd like to collect seeds from these open pollinated varieties so that I don't have to keep buying seeds. How do I prevent cross pollination occurring between different…
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Why do my passion fruit flowers lack pollen?

I have a passion fruit plant that is about 4 years old, and all the fruit it ever given were two little cracked marbles that fell off the plant quickly. I water it regularly, I attempted to water it more and sometimes less to see if it changes…
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Does the (Malus) Prairie Fire Crabapple require cross pollination?

Does the Prairie Fire crabapple tree require cross pollination to survive? I have heard from numerous sources that if we don't plant another (different) crabapple tree next to it, it will die. However, from everything I have researched so far, it…
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Clementine seed results

I've got 7 plants from clementine seeds and want to know what possible results I can expect in terms of fruiting if any, depending on which different citrus trees could have pollinated the parent. The seeds come from fruits probably grown in…
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Tomatoes and pepper plants dropping flowers

I am new to gardening and I have planted tomato and pepper plants. They make flowers but they drop them and they are not making any vegetable. Any idea what could be reason? I am in the city so I shake plants a bit for pollination like I watched on…
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Plants that attract butterflies and dragonflies

I am in Zone 9b and want to attract butterflies and dragonflies in my backyard. What can I do and what plants do I need to grow to encourage them to stay around?
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