I want to know if bee pollan is important in growing tomatoes?
Question by Shelley P: I want to know if bee pollan is important in growing tomatoes?
do you need bee’s pollan to grow and raise a garden
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6 Responses to I want to know if bee pollan is important in growing tomatoes?
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You are confusing bee pollen with the act of pollination of blossoms BY bees. Bee pollen is found in the hive, as is honey. When bees gather nectar from blossoms to make honey, some of the pollen from the plant sticks to them. As they travel from blossom to blossom, they transfer this pollen, and it helps the plants to pollinate, producing more fruits. However, the blossoms CAN pollinate without the bees. (By shaking the plant either manually, or letting the wind do it. They DO pollinate better with the bees help, though)………..Just a coupla trivia facts for you. Did you know that a bee hive is STERILE, that bacteria doesn`t live inside a hive……also, that honey is the only food you can leave on the shelf FOREVER, and will never go bad?
Jim
March 26, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Flowering plants such as tomatoes produce their own pollen within the flowers. Bees that visit a flower, while collecting nectar and pollen, will transfer a bit of the pollen around to fertilize the flowers that they go to. This will make the plant produce fruit. So, yes bee pollen is important, but you don’t have to buy any or put anything on your tomatoes. The tomatoes will make the pollen themselves and ‘wild’ bees that come to your garden will pollinate the tomato plants as they go from flower to flower. This will hold true for most garden vegetables.
mindoversplatter
March 26, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Once the tomato flowers are “pollinated” by bees the plant will them produce fruit(tomatoes). Without pollination, your plants will bear nothing.
Gregory L
March 26, 2012 at 10:08 pm
You need bees. They spread the pollen (the part of the plant that combines with other parts of the same plant to reproduce) when they hop from plant to plant. That’s called pollinating and it’s the process that will start your tomatoes forming.
Bees are good. Wasps suck…
Klaatu verata nichto
March 26, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Tomatoes are self-pollinating, but if for some reason you are not getting tomatoes, try brushing the insides of the flowers with a little paint brush.
Laurie L
March 26, 2012 at 11:42 pm
I just answered a similar question..in greenhouses they have no access to bees etc for proper pollination..they either hand shake each plant for about 5 seconds, gently..every day after blooms appear..tomatos are self pollinating, but needs bees assist to transfer the pollen from one plant to the next..or as I stated above you can be the bee….They even make electric devices for green houses called a “vibrating bee” that shakes them automatically for them…feel free to check out my flickr link below..page 11 has my garden pictures in it..the total view of the garden you will see on the far end the plants bushy and 6 feet high are tomatoes..and fruited quicker than I could give them away..these were all hand pollinated..
read this article on this
http://www.zeta.org.au/~anbrc/abol-009.html
pcbeachrat
March 27, 2012 at 12:05 am