 Hello, welcome to the channel. So today I'm going to do a quick video just showing you how I'm going to attempt pollinating my cantaloupe by hand using some q-tips I'm just going to take you on a close-up here of the plants right away I show you what the female ones look like compared to the male flowers and Show you how I'm going to attempt pollination. So I'm going to be setting up my kneeling Stool here inside the grow tent, which is just awesome So I can get right in close to my plants not having to kneel on my knees on the hard floor surface And it really helps when I need to get back up You can also check out my full review video on this device and find the link to it in the description box below So first of all, I just want to show you what a Female flower looks like if you're looking for it on your plant As you can see here, it looks like it has you know fruit on the end of it here So this bloom is starting to shrivel up. So I may have missed out on getting any pollinating done There's a couple more here Female ones I had lots of male flowers popping up in the last couple weeks And that's what these look like here. So you can see they don't really have any what looks like pieces of Fruit there underneath the bloom. So those are the male ones. So what I want to try to do is take a q-tip find some Poland inside some of these males and try to just rub it inside some of these Female flowers and see if we can help it along with pollination So I have never done indoor growing of cantaloupe before successfully I think I tried watermelon last year, but it didn't get very far But so here I have a male flowers. You can see I'm trying to get right in there and see if I can get any Poland on the end of my q-tip. It's kind of hard to see Trying to have to really get in there and kind of break the flower apart to get some of that Poland We don't have any Bees or butterflies here to help us out indoors So once I think I got a little bit of Poland on it. I'm just going to rub it here On the female flower I'm hoping just to be able to get, you know, two or three successful pollinations going and Cantalopes growing because I don't really have space for more than that and I don't know that Doing this through the cracky hydroponic method how many I can actually Sustain doing it that method as you can see There I got some yellow Poland on it Try to get in here to a female flower So yeah, if I could six have success, but you know two or three cantaloupes, that would be great You can see over here this female flower Wilting up. This is kind of turning yellow. So I don't think that this one is going to Turn into any fruit. I may have missed out on that one If anybody's had any success with indoor melons and self-pollination Techniques, I would like to hear about it in the comments below I'm not sure if this would work better if you had a brush of some kind You can also just pull the male leaf right out and see if you can get to some of that Pull on right insides. I've tried to just, you know, put this right inside the female flower and leave it there That also is a little tricky I also have a fan running in here. So it kind of moves things around. Hopefully that helps a little bit as well So I just wanted to show you a quick Technique that I'm trying here. I've been trying to keep this cantaloupe trimmed back so it doesn't have too many runners I don't want it Shooting out its energy into too many spaces. I want to try to limit it so that hopefully if we have success with pollination It'll get enough from the nutrients here to actually grow us a real life cantaloupe So I will keep you updated on the progress of this in future videos So I have been mixing up my nutrient level here at the blooming and fruiting stage and just topping up my cantaloupe in the crack key method here Every week or so when it starts to look a little dry I just add some more Of this nutrient water. Keep it well fed. Don't let it dry out And hopefully We have some success So if you enjoyed this video, please hit that like button and leave a comment Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on updates on my indoor cantaloupe plant and other stuff Going on in my indoor gardening