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If your tomato plant seems to be losing its flowers without making fruit, try tapping the flower clusters with a pencil
by
Walter Reeves
(IC: homeowner)
twice each day. Tomatoes don't need bees for pollination, just vibration to shake the pollen around on hot, humid days.
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Published June 15th, 2011 2:45 PM
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Julie Dever on Jun 30, 2014This does work. Don't know about you, but I rarely see any bees anymore. This is not as sexy as normal pollination, but hey....just sayin.
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Kathe With An E (Kathe) on Jul 08, 2014I go out and "tickle" my tomato flowers all of the time :-)
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