Tomato pollination question

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by feldon30

You do NOT have bee activity early.
You save seeds from LATER fruit.

I guess I am misreading.

*****

Not quite.

Of course we have bee activity early, but not as much as later in the season as I've found out by saving seeds from early vs late fruits and trying to see which ones have the lowest X pollination rate.

But as I said above, bee activity is different in different areas, so folks just have to find out for themselves what the situation is.

In addition, while most of our garden tomatoes have retracted stigmas, environmental conditions can occasionally cause those stigmas to be exherted on a few varieties, in which case there's a greater possibility of X pollination.

Lots of variables.

Yes, I think you certainly did misread what I said.