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slopfrog

Hand pollinating citrus?

14 years ago

I've got a Page orange (the same one with greasy spot that I've posted about) and it is flowering. Ive also got a meyer lemon (again, same one I posted about) which is also heavily flowering. I haven't seen many bees around so I've been trying to pollinate the Page by hand. I hear it needs cross pollination for best fruit set.

I've been using a Q tip and getting it good and yellow with Meyer lemon pollen and en going to the Page and dabbling it around the end of the flower tip. So far it does not seem to be working because the fruits turn yellow and fall off after a few days.

Any ideas to do this more effectively? Or maybe there is some other reason my Page hasn't set any decent fruit yet.

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