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Question by cal.wooten: Do the flowers of a tomato plant have stamen and pistils?
I say the flower of a tomato plant needs to be pollinated. that’s how the fruit grows and it reproduces. my mom says the fruit just grows. Who’s correct? she says the flowers also don’t have pistils or stamen.
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Answer by Sam G
flowers have stamen and pistils. the whole plant isnt just the tomatos.
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Yes - that will work too!
I sowing mine a propagator.
Yes they do,an like most producers,they need pollination.Some fruits and flowers are self pollinating.
You’re the one who is right. Each of those little yellow tomato flower DOES have very tiny stamins and pistils in the tip. In fact, you can pollinate your tomato plant yourself just by taking a simple fine tipped paint brush and brushing the front of each blossom, moving from from flower to flower until you’ve brushed all of them. This can triple your tomato output.
You and the bees are right. They have both, and in a setup such that just a good breeze is often enough to pollinate them. If you have a plant, pick a flower and carefully take it apart. You’ll be able to see the parts. Meanwhile, check out the sources for pictures.
Yes tomato plants do have pistils and stamins. I pollinate mine by hand and use a cheap 5.00 electric toothbrush to do so.Get one where the front bristles are in a circular pattern and simply go out in the afternoon once the dew is gone on the plants, and start at top of each plant and run the front bristles of the electric toothbrush on each flower you see..You can literaly see the pollen puff out of a swollen pistil when you hit them with this brush.make sure to get a fine bristle brush, and no, it does not harm the plants at all.
Tomato blossoms have both stamens and pistils. They are also self-pollinating, as the blossom encloses the “sex organs”, trapping the pollen inside. This is why tomatoes are hard to hybridize: foreign pollen is excluded. It’s also why heirloom tomatoes breed true year after year.