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How to Hand pollinate Bitter Gourd & other Plant for more fruit yield

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How to Hand pollinate Bitter Gourd & other Plant for more fruit yield

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Balcony Garden - Bitter Gourd
How to Hand Pollinate Bitter Gourd - Easy Step by step technique for Gardening enthusiast and beginners.

People growing Vegetables in Cities miss
pollination done by Bees and other insects in male
and female flowers resulting in their dropping off
with no fruits formation.

But with hand pollination you can achieve good
fruit yield and it is real easy too.

First step in Hand Pollination of Bitter Gourd
and similar plants like Bottle Gourd, Cucumber
etc having both male and female flowers is to
recognize and differentiate between the male and female flowers.

Next Step is to pluck a healthy male
flower and fold it petal back to expose
it yellow color male reproductive parts
known as "Stamen"

Don't worry if its petal break off in the process

Use the plucked male plant to rub its pollen found on
yellow colour Stemen to the sticky female green color
part called "Stigma"

Gently rub Yellow Stemen to Green Stigma inside
out so that Pollen from male Stemen get transferred
to female flower Stigma.

Take care not to break Stigma in the process.

Hand Pollination can do wonders to fruit yield in places
where Bees or insects or not present to do the pollination
in natural way.

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Shashi n Gautam - Kitchen Gardeners published this 3:26 video tutorial on October 25, 2015. It has been watched 85,455 times on YouTube.

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  • Pollinating Vegetable Gourds by Hand - A Full Guide - A Good ... agoodtree.com

    Bitter gourd pollination. Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia Linn.) belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family members and regarded as one of the bitterest fruits. Bitter gourd is a warm-period crop and the temperature acceptab…

  • Pollinating Vegetable Gourds by Hand - A Full Guide | Agri ... agrifarming.in

    Bitter gourd pollination. Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia Linn.) belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family and known as one of the bitterest fruits. Bitter gourd is a warm-season crop and the temperature suitable for its gr…

  • "How to Hand Pollinate Gourds" Page seedman.com

    Normal germination for gourd seeds can be as low as 25%, but by hand pollination, germination can be as high as 80% or more. Hand pollination is a very simple procedure. It simply involves shaking or tapping pollen from…

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