Liquid Pollen.
▲Kiwi Pollination
On Monday and again today we had 20 young folk ( from about 5 countries )spraying liquid male pollen onto the female kiwifruit flowers. The pollen was collected earlier and milled and mixed in a slurry with red food colouring added so they can see where they have already sprayed. This is a very expensive exercise, for the pollen and all that labour but we hope it will ensure a really excellent fruit set. The bees are also still working away. Many fruit are already set...The petals darken and then fall leaving a tiny new fruit about the size of a marble.
I haven't got much more sewing done( too busy ) but am working on attaching the 3rd row of hexagons to the 2nd row. The count for the individual hexagons is now 261....so only 9 more needed.Wednesday, November 22, 2006
周一和今天，我们有20名年轻人（来自大约5个国家）将液体雄性花粉喷洒到雌性猕猴桃花上。花粉是早些时候收集的，经过研磨并混合在一种添加了红色食用色素的浆液中，这样它们就可以看到已经喷洒过的地方。对于花粉和所有劳动力来说，这是一项非常昂贵的运动，但我们希望它能确保一个真正优秀的果实。蜜蜂也在继续工作。许多水果已经结好了。。。花瓣变暗，然后落下，留下一颗大理石大小的小新果实。
▲Kiwi Pollination
▲添加了红色色素的猕猴桃花粉溶液
▲Kiwi Pollination
▲Kiwi Pollination
▲Kiwi Pollination
▲猕猴桃人工授粉方式
▲新西兰佳沛奇异果
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