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- Natural and artificial pollination at the apple tree
- Without pollination, there are no fruits
- Ensure adequate pollination in your own garden
- Even take over the job of the bee
- Tips & Tricks
Natural and artificial pollination at the apple tree
For decades, the importance of bees and other insects for the pollination and thus the harvest of apples has been emphasized. Should it come to bottlenecks due to lack of insect visits to the apple blossoms, you can help if necessary even something.
Without pollination, there are no fruits
While most cereals are self-fertile or sufficiently pollinated by the wind, an apple tree for fruit education needs insects to visit its flowers. Thus, the principle of evolution is ensured in nature, by the combination of tree-inherited genetic material and pollen-inherited genome new apple varieties. Since the pollen of a flower usually get stuck on the abdomen of bees, you can land on the flower in the next flower by stripping or accidentally.
Ensure adequate pollination in your own garden
Usually the pollen of another flower on the same apple tree is not enough to pollinate and fruit. Therefore, you as a garden owner should pre-plan early and ideally plant several apple trees of different varieties in the garden. Beekeepers in the vicinity of a beekeeper in the neighborhood often provide a higher yield of all fruit trees, as bees, in contrast to other flying insects are flowering and collect during a group flight only the nectar and pollen of certain plant species. You can also increase pollination efficiency by providing sufficient nesting and feeding facilities for wild bees, bumblebees and other flower-visiting insects.
Even take over the job of the bee
In China is already sad reality, which happens in this country mostly only in farms: the pollination of apple blossoms by hand by humans. If you find in your garden a lack of visiting the flowers by insects, you can help with the pollination itself. For this you need the following things:
Using the brush, gently pick up some pollen from the prepared container. Then dip it into the flowers on the tree and move the brush tip into something. Hundreds of repetitions of this process require patience, but can pay off in extremely isolated locations with a larger harvest.
Tips & Tricks
Some beekeepers rent out their bee colonies so gardeners can successfully fertilize their fruit trees in this way. This usually does not cost much and saves the visit of each apple blossom with a brush.