Pollinate one flower to do the whole plant?
We have one tomato plant in our flower garden that has a few small tomatoes on it. I'm concerned about watering from above and washing away pollen from the remaining flowers lest they not make tomatoes. My husband thinks that once the plant is pollinated, then the other flowers will make tomatoes anyway. Is that true, or does an insect need to hit every single flower? Thanks.
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Answer by C K
The tomato is the ovary of the flower...that is, the seeds are pollinated, then in nature they fall to the ground where the flesh of the tomato supplies nutrients for the seeds to germinate and grow new plants. A tomato will not develop unless the flower has been pollinated.
Pollination is the the sexual reproduction to make new plants, not new flowers on a plant.
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