submitted 2 months ago by Luccus@feddit.org to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

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I finally managed to pollinate my cherimoya!

For the uninitiated: Pollinating cherimoyas is a bit tricky, because their flowers only bloom for a single day. During this time, they are initially female and can absorb pollen, but only turn male in the evening to harvest pollen from.

To pollinate them successfully, you have to sacrifice at least one flower, take its pollen and hope that the next flower opens before the pollen is no longer viable.

They also develop large velvety leaves:

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[-] Seraph@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

Congrats! I wanted to grow an atemoya but I'm worried about hard pollinating would be.

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