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Monday, June 19, 2023
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Colorado
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After looking over megablooms and regular blooms and all the hand pollinating I've done, I've come to some realizations. In this photo is a normal bloom on one of the giant tomato plants. If you look close you can see that the male part of the flower (anther cone) that produces the pollen goes past the female part of the flower (stigma) and almost fully encapsulates it. This is why tomatoes are so good at self pollinating. Sun Gold is an eating cherry tomato I grow every year. It almost always pollinates every flower. When I looked at the flowers on it. The stigma is completely enclosed tightly by the anther cones. My guess is when the pollen drops is has nowhere to go but on the stigma. Now let's look at a megabloom in the next photo.
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