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Old November 5, 2011   #1
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Default Found a very informative video on how to cross pollinate tomatoes

Was doing a search, since I'm interested in doing a cross or two, and found this video, which is VERY clear on how to emasculate a tomato flower, etc..

For those of us who have never done it, or aren't 100% clear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVHJBKlUIE

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Old November 9, 2011   #2
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Thanks for the link! Great video- quick and simple. Wow, I wish I could get the pollen to fall out of the flower like that. I'm not sure if it was the humidity or what but I had a heck of a time this summer trying to get any pollen for my crosses.
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Old December 1, 2011   #3
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Great. I have always wondered how to do this. Isn't youtube such a great place to see all the things (and some you don't want to know exist) you have always wondered how to do or is done? Thanks for the link.
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I also had a difficult time getting pollen. What are the factors in this? Is it the humidity, the time of day or the maturity of the bloom?

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wow...what a great clip. thanks for that!
now off to ponder the possibilites!
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I have had that explained to me a few times but after watching someone do it well I think I could actually do it . very nice film.
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i went out into the garden and had a go at emasculating a blossom. so easy. wish it was that easy for all species. LOL. k. just joking. settle down everyone.
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i went out into the garden and had a go at emasculating a blossom. so easy. wish it was that easy for all species. LOL. k. just joking. settle down everyone.
thats just not right. lol
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Old December 24, 2011   #9
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Here is video I made last summer on how to cross tomatoes. I had a 10 year old cinematographer, but I think I got the important stuff in there.

http://youtu.be/3aj5TPzhDuI

I wasn't sure how to embed a Youtube vid so I just posted the link.

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Steve, very nice lesson. Well and clearly presented and kudos to your cinematographer!
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Nice video you've made there. Very simple and easy to follow. Thanks a bunch!
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Thanks. Glad you got something out of it.
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wow...that was great!
as a filmmaker myself, i want to give my compliments to the 10 year old DOP. excellent work!
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Thanks!!

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Thanks from me too! I had read about this process and it sounded hard to do, but now I'd be willing to try. Those are both great videos.

I especially appreciate DoubleHelix's use of an old sunglass lens to collect the pollen. I am a hopeless junkrat and, as it happens, have a number of such lenses which have waited in a drawer for years to discover their purpose. Every discovery of a purpose for junk, that happens before you gave up and threw it away, is cause for a celebration!
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