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Pollinating flowers

15 years ago

My two passion fruit vines were dropping most of their flowers (one is in the ground another in a pot) and I'll guess that I had 1 or 2 in 10 fruit. In desperation I hand pollinated the new flowers and have just about 100% of them fruiting.

To see if the hand pollinated flowers are fruiting I'm taking one petal off each one that I take the place of the bees.

My other fruit trees are being pollinated by bees, flies and other insects like ants so what gives? Not that I mind doing it by hand I just want to know if it's typical to get such low numbers of fruit and has anyone else pollinated them by hand?

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