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Friday, March 28, 2014
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Princeton Joe
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Princeton Kentucky
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I have done alot of studying on the fertilization process of the Tomato Flower and have learned that it may take up to 14 days for a completed mega bloom fertilization process to occur. I use to think one tease of the flower and pollen is set. Nope, thats not how it works with mega blooms. So I have regrouped and have changed up my personal fert process. I will be teasing the mega flowers as if I were several revisiting bee's per day after day. My personal formula is as follows; for each combined bloom in 1 Mega flower I pollinate, I add 1 day of teasing the flower a few times/day or 3 mega bloom = 3 days of teasing. It is such a delicate process for the tubes to grow down each female style from the male anther, wow I'm blushing. Thats why for me I cup my hand over the flower and give a small blast of air from a can of compressed air for cleaning electrical boards and not use a brush any more because I'm probably damaging the reproductive organs on the flower. To get each style (combine female parts of the flower) fertilized to grow the biggest Tomato you have to make sure each individual set of styles are fertilized and that needs to be happening more than once a day for up to 10 days or more I found out. Heres a link for lamens like myself to get a hold of this subject. I've missed alot of big tomatoes by not following up on continued pollination of the same mega bloom. I will never claim to be a pro at anything but I will always claim to want to be a pro at learning about something and trying to get it right,lol. Credit on this post goes to UC Davis, California
http://www-plb.ucdavis.edu/labs/rost/tomato/Reproductive/flrfert.html
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