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Pollinate Passion Fruit

Passion flower pollens at anthers.
The guide of doing hand pollination on passion fruit flower
Using cotton bud to pollinate passion flowers.
Photograph taken on 03-Apr-2010 09:57:55, with SONY digital camera DSLR-A200 set to aperture f/5.6, focal length 70 mm, shutter speed 1/125 second, ISO 400.
Slightly touch the cotton bud with pollens from anthers on the stigma. The more pollens attached to stigma, the higher chance to get bigger passion fruit :-)

According to passionfruit pollination requirements of BeeCulture.com, the amount of pollen deposited on the stigma determines the number of seeds set which in turn determine how juicy the passion fruits will be.

In brief, the quantity of pollens received by stigma concludes the size/weight and volume of juice developed in the ripen passion fruit.


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