Re: Can't get female flower pollinated!
- Subject: Re: Can't get female flower pollinated!
- From: M* N*
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 19:18:48 GMT
Here's something I've been doing this year to help pollination in high temps
:
The day before you expect to pollinate, fill either 2 liter plastic soda
bottles or 1 gallon plastic milk containers (whichever happens to be in the
garbage at the time) and put them in the freezer. After you hand pollinate
in the morning, put a paper lunch bag over the flower. Put one frozen
container on each side of the flower. Then, put a styrofoam cooler over both
bottles and the flower. Wrap your wife's best bathroom towels around the
bottom of the cooler to seal it. Finally, throw a tarp over the whole thing
to further insulate it. I'll do this around 7:30 in the morning before I go
to work. When I get home at six, there is still ice in the bottles and the
flower is nice and cool even on days when the daytime temps are in the mid
90s.
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