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Port Alberni, BC, Canada

How do you do it?
Do you use a brush?
Do you roll the stamens aroud the female segments?
Are there any other methods?
I prefer to use a small sable hair brush to pick up and transfer the pollen from male to female.I believe this mimics the best pollinator of all - the bee.

12/24/2007 2:09:43 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Like you Jake, I use one of my daughters small paint brushes to transfer pollen.

Glenn

12/24/2007 3:22:00 PM

Ohio

I scrape (real easy) my pollen in a small pill bottle before going out side. I then dump the pollin inside the female.

12/24/2007 5:55:56 PM

Minnesota(dw447@fastmail.fm)

I roll the stamens on the female segments.

12/24/2007 6:18:12 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

A bottle of vintage fish and kelp...a little "Linus and Lucy" playing in the background, and a citronella candle for ambience..

12/24/2007 9:45:50 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Shannon's method sounds more romantic but like Doug, we crudely roll the stamen around & light a Marlboro.

12/24/2007 9:57:01 PM

Ohio

lol!!!!!!!

12/25/2007 2:18:26 AM

Netherlands

Roll here. I'm a lousy painter.

12/25/2007 2:32:28 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

In desperate times....a little hummm of honey bee's and a little artificial sun light always gets them. Then its stamen to to stigma...and tuck her in for the morning.

12/25/2007 6:18:48 AM

Somerset,Ky

Jake,

I like to tie the female
Also put a Sty. cup the night before
I cut the male flowers use a fine tip paint pin to mark them
bring the males inside put them in water and in the bath
room with a little heat they will all be open in the morning.
I will roll the pollen from 5 flowers make sure it cover well. tie the female beck up and cup back on 24 hrs.

John Van Hook

12/25/2007 7:26:53 AM

Pocatello (cliffwarren@yahoo.com)

On the whole I don't think it matters much. But have you ever watched a bee doing it's thing? It isn't just daintily walking around in there. It's poking, proding, injecting, really getting rough with the flower.... but before we take the sexual inuendo further, I don't believe it makes too much difference.

One thing I noticed while viewing the latest Holland video, is when pollen is successfully introduced to the female, the whole surface becomes sticky. Not sure what that means, but it must be a good sign.

12/25/2007 8:38:59 PM