The flower is one of the most attractive and most important bodies of plant. On it views of people are turned if to speak about decorative value, it serves as body of reproduction and formation of fruits on vegetable cultures and even source of troubles for insects – on plants carnivorous in some parts of the globe.
Flowers of plants happen various form, color, have aroma or fetid smell, but all of them are source of reproduction of plant. Very few people know that plants differ by gender, and their sex in flower form is defined, and elements of this body of plant provide its reproduction. Some types of vegetable and garden cultures do not yield fruits if only their men's or female look, for example, sea-buckthorn is landed, the honeysuckle or cherry in this case do not fructify.
How to distinguish pistillate flower from men's
To define what sort the plant, is possible very easily, rather attentively to consider form of its flowers. Men's flowers are collected in inflorescences on 3-7 pieces, and women's, as a rule, grow on one, in rare instances on two. The basis of female bud is fruit stem in the form of testicle, small ovary. For example, on cucumbers it is possible to see fruit under the bud basis. Men's flowers grow on thin stalk and have no reasons. It is possible to define sex of plant and in structure bud. In women's, as a rule, there is only pestle, and in flowers of masculine gender there are only stamens. Pollination happens when pollen from men's plants is transferred by insects to pistillate flowers. But, knowing how pistillate flowers look, it is possible to carry out controlled pollination and to considerably increase productivity of cultures.
Methods of controlled pollination of plants
For ensuring natural pollination and fructification of plants one men's sapling on 6-7 women's suffices. There are so-called dvudomny plants which have both men's, and female buds, but also they often need controlled pollination. For example, tomatoes – for increase in quantity of ovaries just slightly stir up the blossoming plants. And here many grades of cucumbers for formation of large number of fruits need assistance, especially in cold weather when insects cannot provide worthy pollination. Men's buds, so-called barren flowers, it is necessary to exempt carefully from lobes and to transfer from them pollen to snouts of pestles of pistillate flowers. Such method of pollination can be applied on bush pumpkins, squash and pumpkin, and on one women's 2-3 men's flowers can be necessary. For controlled pollination of garden cultures, in case of lack of men's plants on the site, it is possible to use their branches with the dismissed buds. Place the container with water in which put the blossoming escape from men's tree with the basis of trunk.