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Manual pollination

16 years ago

We have beautiful, bushy, disease free Billy Goat peppers growing in our conseratory. They are currently 3 feet tall and flowering. In the UK, it is still too cold to move them outdooors and since they are growing in a closed conservatory they have nno access to insect pollinators. We are therefore using a soft small brush to cross-pollinate. We are not having any luck...no fruits are setting. Are these chillies male or female but not both? Does anybody have any suggestions?

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smokemaster_2007
16 years ago
Each bud is both male and female.
Might try a shot of Calcium.
I use a liquid concentrate called Foli Cal.
Some people pull a bud and rub other buds with it...
Some just shake the plant.
willardb3
16 years ago
Chiles are self-pollinating and don't need any intervention. Get a small fan to move the air over the plants.
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reyna1
16 years ago
I had some trouble with a bhut jolokia setting fruit last year. I shook the plant and that did the trick.
I think what willard/smokemaster suggests as well as shaking the plant will have great results if it is indeed just an issue of getting pollen to the plants.
Danny

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