Alt: Photo of young green cherry tomatoes on a tomato plant on a balcony. The photo mostly shows green tomato plant foliage. There are some yellow tomato flowers in the top left corner of the frame.

  • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I hand pollinate a lot of my plants, especially cherry tomatoes. If you don’t do it, you’ll probably still get plenty of tomatoes, but you won’t get that nice neat row.

  • The_v@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    FYI Tomato flowers are cleistogamous and are 95%+ self-pollinating. So pollen on tomato flowers doesn’t actually need to be transfered between flowers. The flowers just need to be shaken up a bit to get the pollen to drop from the anther to the pistil.

    So take something that vibrates like a electric toothbrush, massager, or other personal devices (wink, wink) and shake the hell out of the flowers.

  • ganksy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Nice! I’ve helped pollinate before. Did you go from flowers on the same plant or other plants?