Saturday, July 15, 2017

Pollinating a 5 lb tomato

My first real bruiser of the year... got it all frosted up like a powdered donut with pollen from a dozen plants. We'll see if it takes! This one was so gnarly, I couldn't tell what was tomato and what was petals. It had at least 20 sepals, and at least 3 fused tomatoes. Perhaps a lot more. It took me maybe 15 minutes with tweezers to pick out all the petals to expose the stigmas.