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，我們有20名年輕人（來自大約5個(gè)國家）將液體雄性花粉噴灑到雌性獼猴桃花上?；ǚ凼窃缧r(shí)候收集的，經(jīng)過研磨并混合在一種添加了紅色食用色素的漿液中，這樣它們就可以看到已經(jīng)噴灑過的地方。對(duì)于花粉和所有勞動(dòng)力來說，這是一項(xiàng)非常昂貴的運(yùn)動(dòng)，但我們希望它能確保一個(gè)真正優(yōu)秀的果實(shí)。蜜蜂也在繼續(xù)工作。許多水果已經(jīng)結(jié)好了。。?；ò曜儼?，然后落下，留下一顆大理石大小的小新果實(shí)。
▲Kiwi Pollination
▲添加了紅色色素的獼猴桃花粉溶液
▲Kiwi Pollination
▲Kiwi Pollination
▲Kiwi Pollination
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