Q&A for How to Pollinate Flowers

Yes. Depending on the flower, a person can take a small tipped paint brush to transfer pollen from flower to flower to increase fruit set or hybridize different varieties.

Insects visit the flowers to drink nectar and collect pollen then visit another flower to do the same and, consequently, transfer pollen from flower to flower or plant to plant. People can pollinate roses in situations where natural pollination isn't possible such as indoors or to create new hybrid varieties.

Insects pollinate pumpkins. Bees visit flowers to drink nectar and get covered with pollen then visit another flower, transferring the pollen and fertilizing the plant. People can also pollinate pumpkins with a small tipped paintbrush. Transfer pollen from a male flower to a female flower in the morning soon after the flowers have opened.

When pollen from one variety or species of plant is carried to a different, but compatible, plant the seeds produced will be a hybrid of the two parent plants. Crossing cannabis strains or hybridizing plants for ornamental landscapes are examples.

Yes, you can save the pollen and preserve it. Try storing the pollen in gelatin capsules and keeping it in a dry, cool environment until the female plant has matured.

Cucumbers have separate male and female flowers. The males have a short stem, and pollen producing stamen. Be sure that you are collecting pollen from the male flower. Also note that the cucumber pollen may not be visible on your brush to the naked eye.

Yes, you can pollinate moth orchid flowers with lady slipper orchids through cross-pollination.

Yes. When fruit bearing plants are pollinated, the fruit is formed.

If both the flowers are of the same type then yes you can. But the result will not necessarily be the pink you require. You might get flowers that are half white and half red.