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Tomato flowers are self-pollinating.... Kind of

Posted by Johnny Salt on 5/13/2026, 20:15:50

Their pollen is enclosed in the flower itself, and their stamen needs to be fertilized through wind or physical agitation.

At 90 degrees plus the pollen becomes sticky and cakes up within in the flower and pollination usually fails. Vegas is at 90 degrees easy now. With this in mind, I now go out early in the morning while it is cool and agitate the flowers before the pollen gets sticky from the heat.

I make this post cuz I want the Swamp Dweller to understand this so he can grow big tomatoes.

Re: Tomato flowers are self-pollinating.... Kind of

Posted by COINS on 5/13/2026, 20:30:26, in reply to "Tomato flowers are self-pollinating.... Kind of"

I haven't seen any blooms yet, but I will.

Re: Tomato flowers are self-pollinating.... Kind of

Posted by Johnny Salt on 5/13/2026, 21:08:23, in reply to "Re: Tomato flowers are self-pollinating.... Kind of"

Your wife is kicking your ass too.

Some of my tomato plants are 14 to 16 inches tall getting flowers my cherrys have small tomatoes

Posted by Lucky on 5/13/2026, 22:44:10, in reply to "Re: Tomato flowers are self-pollinating.... Kind of"

I am going to have a green house built before next year .
I once had a pepper plant that I took in the house in the winter it lived 5 or 6 years . I would like to do that in a green house to cut clones off of tomatoes peppers ect

Re: Tomato flowers are self-pollinating.... Kind of

Posted by COINS on 5/14/2026, 9:19:10, in reply to "Re: Tomato flowers are self-pollinating.... Kind of"

My wife didn't start from seed. Her plant had blooms on it when she bought it and was a foot tall.

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