The way to Crossbreed Two Fruit Sensors
It take two to tango, but nobody says these two have to tolerate the same genus and species name. Crossbreeding is the botanical blending of two plant species to create a hybrid, ideally one with of the best characteristics of their parent plants and not one of their errors. Those people who are parents understand how tricky this is, but a lot of successful fruit hybrids can be found in grocery stores, such as pluot (plum and apricot), tangelo (tangerine and pomelo) and marionberry (olallieberry and chehalem). Developing a fantastic hybrid requires a high tolerance for a hit-or-miss approach, but it makes for entertaining experiments at the home orchard.
Locate and establish the sexual organs in the blossoms of this fruit trees or bushes you hope to crossbreed, with a magnifying glass. The reproductive parts are known as the stamen (male) and pistil (female). The exact shape varies among flowers, however, the stamen may have yellow feces emerging out of its tip and the pistil is situated just above a swelling ovary.
Determine whether the plants you would like to crossbreed have perfect or imperfect flowers. Perfect flowers contain both sexual enhancers, while unfinished flowers have one or another. If some flowers do not have pollen and others do, your flowers are unfinished. Pollination involves moving the pollen from the stamen to the pistil; this often happens in nature by way of insects or wind.
Choose healthy, hardy plants. Select flowers that have not opened for crossbreeding to make sure natural pollination has not already happened. Pick the pollen parents out of plants whose flowers have heavy yellow pollen. Pick the seed parents from plants whose flowers have a generous source of a sticky material on the pistil; this catches and catches the pollen.
Snip away the stamen from the seed parent flowers with a small scissors if the flowers are perfect. If you do not do this, the plant might pollinate itself until you may pollinate with another species. Cover the seed parents loosely with plastic bags to protect against unwanted pollination.
Pluck out the stamens from a pollen parent with tweezers. Remove the bag by a seed parent. Grasp the stamen using the tweezers and use the stamen tip for a brush to pass pollen to the seed parent’s stigma. Replace the bag to the seed parent. Mark the bag using a tag, giving both parent species and the date of this cross.
Provide the plant using irrigation and perfect conditions for fruiting. When the cross-pollinated flowers produce ripe fruit, harvest them. Eliminate and air-dry the seeds, plant them appropriately. Label the seedlings of each different crossbreeding so you will know which is which. If the seedlings mature into fruit-bearing plants, you can taste the new hybrid you’ve created.
