I moved a lot of potted plants from my sun room this morning and put them outside near my compost pile. It’s near my water well and the best sun exposure at my house in town.
Already have 3 varieties of tomatoes and 5 varieties of onions in small pots. I started the seed for those plants in folded wet paper towels in a ziplock bag. I was amazed at how good the germination level was for seeds that are 4 years old. That is old for onions. I would not have gotten that germ percentage if I had planted them directly in the pots. But also learned that you must carefully watch the seed, wait a day or two too long and they are hard to plant without damaging them.
This was the first winter that I tried and succeed in hand pollinating both tomatoes and Pepper plants indoors. Simply rubbed the blooms together.
My plumb bushes somehow made it through the recent week of very cold temperatures without blooming, but the buds look like it will happen soon.
Spring is in the air in Texas. (smile)
I rarely hand pollinate my indoor peppers and tomatoes. They sometimes get a jolt from my bumping into the table with the vacuum and sometimes I shake them a bit to dislodge the dust.
They don’t seem to need much to set fruit.