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Pollinate Passion Fruit

Copyright © 08 Apr 2010 02:16
Using cotton bud to pollinate passion flowers.
The main stem of passion fruit.
The guide of doing hand pollination on passion fruit flower
Photograph taken on 03-Apr-2010 09:57:26, with SONY digital camera DSLR-A200 set to aperture f/5.6, focal length 55 mm, shutter speed 1/125 second, ISO 400.
The guide of doing hand pollination on passion fruit flower. This could be troublesome for commercial cultivation but it is kinda fun with home-grown passion flower vine.

I am happy to see the vine produces fruits with such simple works. After all, there are not many passion flowers seen in my little poor vine :-(

The hand pollination requires only a cheap cotton bud or little pricey paint brush.

Basically, just slightly touch the anthers to collect the yellow-orange pollens and then transfer them to the stigma.

To understand better, take a look at passion fruit flower structure in the gallery/post or the original copy at BeeCulture.


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