How to Crossbreed Vegetables
- 1). Decide on the vegetable or vegetables that you want to grow and would wish to crossbreed. Select a particular species of that vegetable that you wish to change, and then pick another two with specific traits you desire the first one to have. For example, if you are trying to crossbreed cucumber, you must make sure that the chosen plants are the same species, but of 2 different varieties.
- 2). Determine the time or season in which your desired plant pollinates the most, and how you can know when it is producing pollen.
- 3). If you find out that your plant self pollinates, then it does not require another plant to produce fruit. In this case you can simply take out the organs of the flowers that are receptive to pollen to prevent any undesirable pollination. However, if it lacks the ability to self pollinate, cover your plant with the help of a transparent tent that prevents it from being pollinated accidentally.
- 4). Once your plant starts to produce pollen, begin transferring it from the stamen of one to the other plant's carpal. Go about it by collecting pollen and placing it safely into a glass or paper cup, and then use cotton swabs to apply it.
- 5). Once this process has been repeated a couple of times during the peek breeding season of your flowers, consider your work done. Now the only thing to do is to wait for fruits to develop and see what plants grow from the seeds of your cross-bred vegetables.
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