wind pollinated host:gardenline.usask.ca

Listing 1 - 4 from 4 for wind pollinated

The Sex Life of Plants
... , again expect no fruit because the female flowers have to be pollinated by male flowers if fruit is to form. The obvious solution ... are the male flowers. Pollen from the tassles is carried by the wind to the female organs, each of which will produce a single seed, ... that pollen did not reach some female organs, probably because the wind carried the pollen away from the cob. Planting corn in squares ...
gardenline.usask.ca

Espalier
... wind. In general, the less noticeable the flowers on a particular plant are, the more likely it is that the plant is pollinated by wind ... non- fragrant. Since Saskatchewan's wind can find them whether they are conspicuous or not, wind-pollinated flowers do not devote a ... if that particular kernel is to develop. Corn is a wind-pollinated crop (like most grasses); therefore, problems can arise when ...
gardenline.usask.ca

Growing Sweet Corn
... corn in a square or block pattern rather than in long, thin rows. Corn is wind-pollinated, and square planting patterns result in greater pollination. A minimum of 100 plants in a ... change from year to year, but overall proves to be fairly reliable. - since corn is wind-pollinated, cross-pollination can occur if different types or colours (yellow, white or bi-coloured) are ...
gardenline.usask.ca

Collecting Garden Seeds
... of the pollen that produced a desirable cross. But because some plants are wind-polinated and others are pollinated by insects, tracking the pollen source down can be a very difficult task ...
gardenline.usask.ca