Gwarrior
Well-Known Member
I have a 2 month into flowering blueberry (4 feet tall) and about 5 little ones (1 foot or less). Anyway, one of my little blueberries was male and I was keeping it so I could collect pollen, but one of the sacs opened early! Only one though, so that's good.
I have the males shut in a box (although not exactly air-tight) below the female. I wouldn't think that this means 100% chance of pollenization? I mean, maybe a few of the flowers, sure, but not the whole entire plant is going to be crawling with seeds, right? Even with direct exposure from an open sac, it wouldn't pollenate the bud to hell would it?
Also, the female only has about 1-2 weeks left anyway before harvest. About 1/6 of the hairs are turning red. I heard that once they start turning red, they can't even collect pollen any longer. Shouldn't be a problem, I would think?
I have the males shut in a box (although not exactly air-tight) below the female. I wouldn't think that this means 100% chance of pollenization? I mean, maybe a few of the flowers, sure, but not the whole entire plant is going to be crawling with seeds, right? Even with direct exposure from an open sac, it wouldn't pollenate the bud to hell would it?
Also, the female only has about 1-2 weeks left anyway before harvest. About 1/6 of the hairs are turning red. I heard that once they start turning red, they can't even collect pollen any longer. Shouldn't be a problem, I would think?