Pollination:
Plant Conception.
- 1. Take a look at the diagram of the flower. Learn it well for the next step's success depends on your knowledge of the plant structure.
- 2. Pick the member of your group, who has steady hands and eyes, to be the pollinator.
- 3. Pollinator, you must find a open flower on a wild plant, and one on a anthocyaninless plant. Then grab the top of a stamen (with forceps) from the one flower, and use the scissors to cut the stamen. Do this again until all of the stamens are removed leaving a raw pistil.
- 4. Cut a second flower from the other plant and bring it to the now exposed pistil. Rub the second flower's stamens on the pistil to pollinate the flower.
- 5. This is a cross pollination. You should follow a similar procedure to cross each of the plants, leaving you with one flower on each plant, that has been pollinated. Cut away all the extra flowers, they take energy from the plant. If you feel it is necessary pollinate two flowers on the plant. This may make the pods smaller, but you have an improved chance of getting a good seed harvest.
Return to the mother dirt.