Indoor Pepper Pollination

[NatGreenMeds]

If I can't prove everything I say, Chilihunter says it must be a lie.

Thank him for the removal of this post.

[POTAWIE]

Each flower has male and female parts so each can pollinate itself. A fan should be perfect to help shake things up a bit

[rainbowberry]

Even if you had one plant Nat it would pollinate itself. Chillis are self-pollinating, a fan just helps it along.

[imaguitargod]

Ditto on what everyone else said. If you find you aren't getting enough flowers polinated with the fan, you can always manually polinate with a Q-Tip.

[MiLK_MaN]

If you have a fan with 3 speed settings, which setting should I set it at? I've only ever put it on speed setting 1 or 2 on the fan, not sure what other people do.

I've noticed my tomato plant has a number of flowers, but no fruit. It's the furtherest away from the fan, perhaps I might have to increase the speed.

[imaguitargod]

If you have a fan with 3 speed settings, which setting should I set it at? I've only ever put it on speed setting 1 or 2 on the fan, not sure what other people do.

I've noticed my tomato plant has a number of flowers, but no fruit. It's the furtherest away from the fan, perhaps I might have to increase the speed.
It depends on...sigh...I know this is going to go dirty....it depends on how hard your fan blows.

One fan's 1 setting might be another fan's 11 setting ("This one goes to 11")

[MiLK_MaN]

Yeah fair point, I kinda thought of that when I posted ... how long is a piece of string.

So out of your 11 settings, what's yours on?

[theHippySeedCo]

if they are in Pots, y can't you just move them around, or move the fan to the other side, put another fan in.. lol my old setup had 6 PC fans(12v) 1 in each side blowing in, 2 in roof blowing out, and some Resistors to speed up or slow them down plus they were on 24/7 as i reakon good Air circulation is a must
i haven't tried Negative Ion generators or CO2 with chilli's yet (they do benefit other Kninds of plants so can't see why not)

[MiLK_MaN]

Only two of the plants are in movable pots, the others are in the Autopot with their gravity fed water tubing connected.

I could move the pots between the housing chambers, but while I first thought I'd have plenty of room in this tent, its not extremely clear its going to be one tough ask to even pick ripe chillies off in a month or two given the lack of room I now have.

Maybe I should of gone that 2.8m x 1.4m x 2m tent. Missus wouldnt have been happy though

[imaguitargod]

So out of your 11 settings, what's yours on?

1-2. But that was a month ago. I keep bringing all 300+ plants in and outside every day. The like real sun better than artificial.

[willard3]

I run my fan at 3 air changes/hr (low) when temperatures are cooler and 10 air changes/hr during warmer weather.

I don't do anything else for pollination and I get plenty of fruit.

[wordwiz]

I found about a 1.5" pepper on a Bolivian Carrot yesterday when I was transplanting it. I hdn't even seen it blooming before!

Mike

[VtPepper]

I guess I am a nut then because I hand polinated all 300 plants last year so I could be sure that the pods were true to save there seeds. I picked about 5 to 10 flowers off each plant and used a q-tip to do them by hand that kept the seeds true. But it was a lot of work.

[wordwiz]

Vt,

The only plants I'm planning on growing inside this year are a Bhut, 7-pot and Scorpion. They will be in the same room, but far enough apart (and with no bees in the house) that cross-pollination shouldn't be a concern. But hey, if one pod does and I end up with a 7-Bhut, Bhut Scorpion or Scorpion Pot, I could probably live with that.:rolleyes:

[VtPepper]

Don't worry last year my wife accused me of loving my plants more than her. She said I spent more time with them than I did with her. I say at least they don't talk back. So what if I gave them a bit more TLC I am just a little parinoid about my pepeprs.

[teh purple penguins]

i just used my fingers : )

[talas]

mine are all outside at the moment apart from the seedlings(greenhouse) there all a few inches apart any chance of cross polination so close to each other?

[Omri]

mine are all outside at the moment apart from the seedlings(greenhouse) there all a few inches apart any chance of cross polination so close to each other?
Yep.

[rainbowberry]

Even far apart outside it only takes the breeze or an insect to do it.

[rabbit]

This is good info because I plan on doing this with a few of my plants this winter.:)

[Omri]

If you don't plan on using the seeds, you have nothing to worry about.

[rabbit]

If you don't plan on using the seeds, you have nothing to worry about.

I agree with that one.

[talas]

right thats it im moving them apart thx for the advice guys much appreciated :)