Gardening 101: How To Hand-Pollinate Tomatoes And Peppers

[Coelacanth1938]

I tried keeping bees inside my apartment to pollinate my indoor garden. It didn't work out.

[ILuvCaroline]

There's no railing on the porch?

[Rep0007]

Shake it! Shake that Cosmic Thing! Shake it!! Shake!! Woooo-ooooo!!

[superloop330]

Great! Now I can grow me some maters! Yee Haw! :-)

[yeshuason]

Thank you!

[skeczy]

Great tips from a gorgeous woman.

[SheepDog707]

Seems more like a method for a greenhouse, rather than outside where the wind shakes it enough.

[GoldenSunGirl88]

Aww, if I knew you can just flick/shake them, I would not have bought an electric toothbrush to buzz them!

[Glassgothgirl]

Hehehe, I flick my tomato flowers. It seems to work pretty well too XD

[caholaway]

Are the flowers supposed to die or fall off?

[iWearGlassesLOL]

@caholaway

The flowers are the ones that turn into fruits no?

[helmsdeep48]

@iWearGlassesLOL yeah, the fruit pops right out of the flower

[helmsdeep48]

@caholaway they kind of fall off after the fruit begins growing out of them

[kooldaug]

what a hot grandma.

[RodrigorReyes123]

wow I had no idea that tomatoes where self pollinating and much less that you could pollinate them like that!!!

[Thebugman050]

In the UK it's easier to just buy a small hive of live bumblebees and place it in the greenhouse. They're called Beepol hives.

[mortraven626]

id tear it up

[michael8699]

Thanx alot

[buddybleau]

I grow gourds and I pollinate them myself. What works best for me is a Q-Tip. Gourds have both the male and female flowers on the same vine. I just take the Q-Tip and rub it on the male pollin. Then I rub it on the female flower cone. Works eveytime. I grow different kinds of gourds so to prevent cross pollination by the bee's, I use little twist ties to hold the petals of the flower closed after pollinating. Then the bees can't get at it.

[angryadrien]

I'm so happy, it's IDIOT PROOF!!! I won't be able to screw it up!

[ACATRANS]

Thanks, for the useful  video

[korix2000]

Oh, thank heavens! I thought I was going to have to go out and buy a special pollinating brush or something. Thank you for the video. I didn't k now it was that simple.

[Oasix21]

Shake it

[Oasix21]

Omg so thats how you do it thanks a lot

[redcomy56]

I grow bell peppers, tomatoes and other various vegetables indoors, so hand pollinating is the only way they will produce fruit. I have tried both methods the video suggests and yes they do partially work but what works the BEST is an electric tooth brush. I works 100% of the time and every flower I pollinated produced. I use a Phillips sonic care tooth brush, and use the plastic side of the bristles to vibrate right near the flower.

[Shutkaroo]

u r beautiful its true.....

[Myobokuuzan]

Awe, both you and your mom are wonderful :)

Now I know what to do when I grow my plants indoors :) 

[bobt2u]

Hello elementsintime and Mom!

I do not know if you ever check back to see the comments on this video as it is a couple years old.....But anyways..

Wanted to say thanks for this video, very well planned and video taped. Let me guess, it took only two tries to get it perfect! (Ha Ha)

I did look at your other two videos and was tempted to buy some bracelets to help the cause, but there was that Don't Ask Don't Tell Ad in there with it, which is a policy I do not support.

Good Work!

[bluekarma]

I didn't see anything come off the buds. You sure this works? I will give it a try because this year my tomatoes have been a bust! We had a long June Gloom and I had started in pril..might of been too cold.

[screwmuffin]

Thanks!!! great vid for people like me who have NO CLUE :)

[59Ballons]

Oh My God!

O M G ! You have a nice garden! And cute dog!

[jimmy37404]

I'm glad to know I am not crazy. I "thump" my flowers and over 50% set fruit.

[picky682]

I'm off to shake and flick my tomato plants. Thanks! I was wondering what to do since mine are still indoors and flowering but the weather is too sad to put them outside.

[urthlingz]

Thank you so much for your help! This is the first time I've ever grown/pollinated tomatoes, and already, they're big and juicy!

[tim3jones]

Thank you!!!

[gammelfaen]

Exactly what I was looking for! Will go shake my tomato plants now :)

Thanks!

[borckhn]

Thanks so much! Hopefully now my lone tomatoe will have friends!!

[noutram1]

I've lost soooo many unborn baby toms by not having this knowledge -NO MORE TOMATO DEATHS ON MY WATCH !

:o)

[stevelew47]

Nice video. Actually your garden is very beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

[nectarineblue]

thanks for sharing.. likes like ya all was having too much fun.. :D

[metaldazman123]

ive been told you need a thin brush for liek water colour painting to pollinate by swabbing flower to flower how does that work :S ?

[beanturd13]

Good work:) wooop

[FreakShow2008a]

Cute!

[farmingfriends]

That looks so easy. A great video.

Sara from farmingfriends