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Cross polination and flavor?

gnappi
12 years ago

In my earlier thread I noted that I pollinated my three carambolas by hand since I had no bees around my house.

I used one tiny cosmetics brush for all three trees. All three set a LOT of fruit, but since the trees are still rather small a lot were aborted.

This got me wondering, can cross pollination with several cultivars manipulate flavor?

Could it enhance fruit set?

PS. I now have bees, I put in a flower bed of flowers that have been certified by the bees themselves that they like them. To do this I just watched which flowers the bees stayed on at HD and Lowes :-)

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