Gardening: Plants, Flowers, Veggies, Trees and All Things Green

[Wonderer67]

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So, this is gonna sound stupid. How did the flowers and therefore the peppers get pollinated so they grow fruit?

Are there male and female flowers?

I know with pumpkins, there are definite and different male and female flowers, and your dependent on insects to bring male pollen to the female flowerto pollinate them.

Do you put them outside at some point?
Are there bees or other insects in the greenhouse to fertilize them?

I know with pumpkin, sometimes we hand fertilize them with a Q-tip, taking pollen from male flowers and putting them on the female flowers, just to make sure.

Sorry for all the questions, I’m just genuinely curious.

I’m taking a short lunch break while I finish cleaning out some of our garden beds. It is a nice warm day, but I think it’s gonna thunderstorm later.

 

[JustAnotherFlower]

So, this is gonna sound stupid. How did the flowers and therefore the peppers get pollinated so they grow fruit?

Are there male and female flowers?

I know with pumpkins, there are definite and different male and female flowers, and your dependent on insects to bring male pollen to the female flowerto pollinate them.

Do you put them outside at some point?
Are there bees or other insects in the greenhouse to fertilize them?

I know with pumpkin, sometimes we hand fertilize them with a Q-tip, taking pollen from male flowers and putting them on the female flowers, just to make sure.

Sorry for all the questions, I’m just genuinely curious.

I’m taking a short lunch break while I finish cleaning out some of our garden beds. It is a nice warm day, but I think it’s gonna thunderstorm later.

Pepper flowers contain both stamen and pistol. Because of this, they can be self pollinating given a gentle breeze or a shake. The genetic make up does benefit more from cross pollination with other pepper plants.

While in the grow tents, there are fans constantly moving a breeze over the canopy. Some pollination happens then but I've been know to give a gentle tickle to the flowers of like peppers to spread pollen.

They all move outdoors in May/late April weather permitting, so it's not something I worry about.

 

[Wonderer67]

I got home to find that my larger 100-120 day pumpkins have sprouted!

https://imgur.com/a/ri3Oigx

 

[JustAnotherFlower]

 

[JustAnotherFlower]

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[Wonderer67]

Gorgeous pepper flowers!

 

[Wonderer67]

I love crocuses! They were open on Saturday last weekend.

https://imgur.com/a/1JrwUA7

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Then closed on Sunday bundling up for the cold.

https://imgur.com/a/zsPs7Pw

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[ccs29745]

I love crocuses! They were open on Saturday last weekend.

https://imgur.com/a/1JrwUA7

https://imgur.com/a/QRSErXF

Then closed on Sunday bundling up for the cold.

https://imgur.com/a/zsPs7Pw

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They are pretty in masses or as a border. Tough little flowers in snow too

 

[Wonderer67]

They are pretty in masses or as a border. Tough little flowers in snow too

I love the little lines and striations in the flowers.

 

[positiveflirt]

Happy Friday, you horticulture hotties
Just one offering from me so far this season but hi from my tiny patch of world..

https://imgur.com/a/cDAzgNC

 

[JustAnotherFlower]

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A beautiful mutation in the pepper cross I've been nurturing for a few years now.

 

[Wonderer67]

Happy Friday, you horticulture hotties
Just one offering from me so far this season but hi from my tiny patch of world..

https://imgur.com/a/cDAzgNC

Gorgeous!

 

[Wonderer67]

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A beautiful mutation in the pepper cross I've been nurturing for a few years now.

Those are gorgeous colors! You go!!

 

[JustAnotherFlower]

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Yellow Chinese 7 Pot.

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Red Bhut Jolokia.

 

[ccs29745]

Nice plants

 

[lliicckkss]

wow i just was harassing people with flowers and this exists haba

 

[lliicckkss]

 

[Wonderer67]

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Yellow Chinese 7 Pot.

https://i.ibb.co/S7xjk8gF/1000037402.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/KcJ1t5TD/1000037405.jpg
Red Bhut Jolokia.

Look at those root balls!

 

[Wonderer67]

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Cool flowers! What are they??

 

[lliicckkss]

there called like dancing ladies or something to that effect..scientific no idea haha

 

[FreckledSprite]

They really exploded this year

 

[JustAnotherFlower]

Cool flowers! What are they??

there called like dancing ladies or something to that effect..scientific no idea haha

Trailing Fuschia. Mostly shade/part sun hanging basket annual. Typically sold just before Mother's Day.

 

[lliicckkss]

Trailing Fuschia. Mostly shade/part sun hanging basket annual. Typically sold just before Mother's Day.

i just love flowers i never know what they are, if i like how they look i dont even think . haha but , some after i do wish i knew hat were

 

[Wonderer67]

They really exploded this year
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Have to agree. It’s been really cold in Jersey and are daffodils are doing great!

https://imgur.com/a/gSbo7oX

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[JustAnotherFlower]

So, here's the peony question I mentioned... can they produce viable seed? I have numerous starts coming up around my peony bed that look exactly like peony leaves..

Wasps on a peony for attention.