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    Melons - how to self pollinate?

    Evening all,

    I have two types of melon - water melons (4 plants all producing fruit) and a cantelope melon which has produced one big fruit but many flowers have failed to lead to setting of the fruit.

    How do i pollinate the flowers myself?

    Considering that one melon has produced so far the bees themselves seem to be doing a job but I am not sure with whats wrong? The polytunnel remains open 24/7.

    Many thanks,

    Samuel
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    To hand pollinate melons you need to remove a male flower, fold back the petals (or remove) and then push it into the open female flower (the one with the immature fruit behind it) and gently rub it around.

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      Do you know what the male flower looks like as they all seem to be identical to me?

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      • #4
        They are probably all male flowers then The females will have a small round swelling directly below the flower where the males don't have anything, just stem and flower. I would think it is a bit late in the season for melons to come to anything now though.
        A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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        • #5
          I use a childs soft paintbrush and I twist the brush into the male flower(the one without the bulb shape behind it) and the do the same to the "bulb shaped" flower and do this each morning for a week, we have about 13 on 4 plants so that's all that's needed, just wait until you see the bulb shaped flowers..

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