How to pollinate tomatoes by hand & get Huge Tomato Yields
Tips, Tricks
By hand pollinating tomatoes, the flowers result in fruits all the time, giving you better yields. This tip will let you use your hands or a toothbrush to pollinate tomato flowers and get huge yields. All you need is a powered toothbrush, or you can just use your hands. Although bees do a good job of pollinating, this tip is handy if you are growing tomatoes indoors or do not have a lot of bees in your area. learn how to pollinate tomatoes in this instructional gardening video.
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Hello Sir/Madam; for my kind concern can you please upload a short video on hand pollination of Cauliflower or Broccoli. Its been a perfect period of pollinating them..Will look forward to it.Thank you!!!
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Your yellow power brush looked like a bumble bee. Very smart! My tomato produce was very poor the last 2 yrs, will try this method this year.
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So you just shake the 🌺
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wonderful tip..am trying it
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How often do I need to do this to the plant?
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Wind can help pollunate them so place the plants where they gain good winds. I have mine placed in a outside corner of the house so that they gets the maximum amount of sun all day that they need for fruit production. I feed it dymanic lifter (a brand of chicken poo plant fertilizer) once everyweek. I have a sprinkler set to automatically water for 10 minutes everyday at 10am. The winds that I get here handles the pollunation for me and if not, I get insects everywhere that handles it and I get all those lovely tasty tomatoes. Only problem I have is fruitflies stealing my tomatoes but that can b e solved by using exclusion bags. Fruitflies seems only to be a problem in summer. My plants can survive our winter as it did. We are 2 weeks into spring and the plants are in full swings of flowers. :)
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Thanks for this electric toothbrush tip! I found out that it can also be used to quickly brush off aphids from leaves.
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So have you had greater success using this method? I'm currently in Singapore for work and started a tomato patio garden. I just returned from a 3 week trip and noticed I have a bunch of blossom drop. I'm suspecting it's because they weren't pollinated. I'm also concerned of the climate here. It's a constant 80> and high humidity. I've begun using the electric toothbrush on the blossoms in hopes of pollinating the blossoms. How many times should I do that for each blossom? Once? Twice? Any thoughts?
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Are you guys all nuts hier. I love tomatoes, but I do not make love with them. They can have babies without our help. Let's say: they can f_ _k themselves. They are Hermaphroditic – Plants with perfect flowers. Mostly they are alredy pollinated when the flowers open.
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i was watching your garden , it looks so beautiful and please can you tell me how to grow beautiful and healthy vegetables . i planted 9 heads of tomatoes and my plants only produced only 10 tomatoes from 9 different plants.
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You are so smart. Love the electric toothbrush method. BRILLANT
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Thanks again!
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can you use vegetable oil and soap for pest control on your planior does it have to be canola oil?
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i have a few tomatoes in pots, do you think they would survive and produce if i kept them inside during winter if i invested in a grow light
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How often must I do this? Once? Daily? Until I see fruit?
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Can i pollinate cucumber same way with toothbrush ?
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Doesn't the pollen have to fall into the ovary of another flower? I don't get how vibrating them makes them become pollinated.
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I started manually pollinating my tomato plant a week ago after watching your video....it worked! I've noticed significant growth in the last few days, and this was noticeable particularly because although I had many blooms, they weren't turning into fruit, but now they are, thank you! :-)
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if you use the same toothbrush for different strains of tomatoes will that cross pollinate them?? I don't want to do that..
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What an amazing idea! Thank you, I am definitely going to try this method.
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