How to hand pollinate a peach tree

RJUKL | 15:25 Fri 26th Mar 2010 | Gardening

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Can anyone help. Does the pollen from one flower have to be transferred to another flower or is it enough for the pollen from one flower to touch the other pistils on the same flower?

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Hawkwalk

most peach trees are self fertile and each flower is self fertile so you only need to tickle the bits inside each flower if you want to give nature a helping hand.

RJUKL

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Thank you for your answer. Just to be sure, do you mean that you do not have to move from one flower to the next to carry the pollen from one flower to the other? Or does the stamen in the flower fertilise its own anthems (I forget the proper names)?

Hawkwalk

yes, you do not have to move from one flower to the other but you will do this anyway unless you intend to wash your brush after you have tickled each flower.

mollykins

My neighbour has a nectarine tree and so do we, and they are about 50 metres apart, but they both still get pollinated. They are about 5 years old and we got about 20 good peaches from them, but some go rotten before ripened if that makes sense and others are eaten by birds.

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