How to Hand Pollinate Plants

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How to hand pollinate plants. In this video, Dave demonstrates hand pollination on our watermelon plant. It’s an easy trick that gives bees a helping hand so your plants can thrive.

[Joshwa-ji]

its so cute and funny that plants reproduce like this 😂

[freebehindbars]

I’ve always taken the male flower off and used it on the female.

[fridomsnowbird]

It is smarter to take the pollen from a male flower from another plant of the same variety. You get a healthier germplasm.

[grovermartin]

Your videography + your instructions make everything crystal clear!

[theheardhomestead]

Those aphids triggered my garden wars ptsd

[mateuszgua]

Good stuff, keep up the good work chief!

[hydrogenneon]

He was my neighbor ... Now.i can never be in a fancy pie

[Borwain]

This is a type of Artificial Insemination, whereby we help the watermelon plant to become a mommy so that its baby (i.e. watermelon fruit) gets born, and when it becomes 18+ (i.e. riped), it's put to conscription duty by becoming a part of our healthy diet.

[indigocheetah]

My mother would pollinate the paw paws in Australia .

[jujubee]

I know the the flower on a squash female only opens up for one day so you have watch daily, does the same go for a watermelon?

[Jason-os]

Cheer~~the transfer of pollen to a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant to allow fertilization.😊

[Pinkpumpkingardener]

Can you pollinate a closed female if you haven’t caught her opened yet?

[Elizabeth_channel]

Can you use pollinate from other flowers

[andynightingale]

easier way is to get a cheap battery operated toothbrush and simulate what a bee does. I do this with tomato plants.

[texsis]

Can you do the same thing with tomatoes

[ukieadi]

permision to use this video for education on my country

[purnp]

What would happen if you took the pollen from a totally different flower and pollinated the female watermelon flower?

[jackjaym]

What if the male flower would identity as female?

[PoonsYungv]

I had no idea there were male and female flowers

[Rahul.patel]

Can i do this method on my mango 🥭 tree?