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Old April 8, 2010   #5
WVTomatoMan
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Location: West Virginia - Zone 6
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I generally use a fan on indoor peppers, tomatoes, etc. In addition I flick the plants or give them a good shake. I do this to help the flowers pollinate.

I have performed an experiment where I restricted air movement to tomato plants and it negatively affected pollination. I then used the methods described above on the same plants and had almost 100% pollination. While not a truly scientific experiment it was enough to convince me to use the fan and flick.

The safest thing to say is that tomato and pepper plants are self fertile. There is a debate as to whether they are truly self pollinating due to the issues they have with setting fruit when there is nothing to disturb the plants (wind, sonicating bees, etc.)

BTW, I have seen the chicken in question. He is a wanted fugitive and was last seen at the residence of Wallace and Gromit.

Good luck.

Randy
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