Emasculating PL

VintageNM · July 13, 2010

OK I have successfully emasculated plenty of RL flowers, but today I went to do the same to a PL and just mutilated the poor flower. First: Do I need to emasculate PL flowers to get a successful cross? Second: If I need to...how?

Thanks!

TZ-OH6 · July 13, 2010

Pick a different flower. PL flowers are no different than RL except for the fact that most PL are beefsteak so there will be a large proporton of funky fused blossoms. Just keep going until you find a normally shaped blossom. It will be one of the average sized or smaller buds.

I tried simply coating open Brandywine flowers last year with RL pollen and the success was rather low (10%-20%) because self pollenation had begun before I got there. I ended up dense planting and pulling out the few RL plants for grow out.

July 13, 2010	#1
VintageNM Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Sonoma, CA Posts: 7	Emasculating PL OK I have successfully emasculated plenty of RL flowers, but today I went to do the same to a PL and just mutilated the poor flower. First: Do I need to emasculate PL flowers to get a successful cross? Second: If I need to...how? Thanks!

July 13, 2010	#2
TZ-OH6 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Mid-Ohio Posts: 847	Pick a different flower. PL flowers are no different than RL except for the fact that most PL are beefsteak so there will be a large proporton of funky fused blossoms. Just keep going until you find a normally shaped blossom. It will be one of the average sized or smaller buds. I tried simply coating open Brandywine flowers last year with RL pollen and the success was rather low (10%-20%) because self pollenation had begun before I got there. I ended up dense planting and pulling out the few RL plants for grow out.