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Posted by loodigg (U14814581) on Sunday, 20th March 2011
I overwintered a chilli plant indoors and now it has a few new flowers. One flower has opened and I wanted to know if, with a small brush, I can pollenate it by hand and use any other flower from any other plant or does it have to be another chilli?
They're self-pollinating. You can give the flower a gentle poke with a fine paint brush or toothbrush. Or even a couple of taps with a finger will achieve the same result.
Self pollinating? OK thanks. So does that mean (not that it would happen) if you only had one flower on a plant and no other plant nearby it would produce one fruit?
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Yes, one fruit per flower with chillies. I've never seen them conjoined - two fruit from the same flower. I've had it quite a few times with tomatoes, though.
Hi Loodigg,
It worked with the chilli I over Wintered last year. The first flower didn't pollinate, but the second, third, etc. did. Perhaps it helped using the same brush, although I've heard rumours that moistening the brush/cotton bud so that the pollen stays damp can help, in the same way as tomatoes (that is, a damp atmosphere in a greenhouse) helps tomatoes to pollinate.
Best of luck with it.
Thanks, first time I tried over wintering. Got loads of new ones on the window ledge comming on well. Thought there would be nothing to loose to try ang get one through winter...just lifted, repotted and easy on the water, now really growing well with many flowers so very early chillies! (fingers crossed)
Good going. In theory, tomatoes will come back for a second year, too, providing disease or the cold or goodness knows what else doesn't get to them first.
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