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Hi everyone. From recent expedience searching online, I can see that many ask the same questions and the same answers are given - usually around the need for two tomatilla plants.
When I bought my plant, there were two in the same pot. Trouble is, when only a very few flowers were present, strong winds snapped one of the plants. Without really knowing of the need to have two plants, I tried to transfer some pollen from a couple of flowers from the broken plant to the new. I then threw the broken one away.
Fast forward to now, many weeks later, I have a thriving plant, 3 to 4 feet high with tons of flowers and 'bbaskets'. Now, I was vefy pleasantly surprised when one of the very first baskets had a fruit growing in it, I thought I had got lucky from the tiny bit of hand pollination I had done between plants. I expected maybe 2-3 fruits at the very best, as that was roughly the number of flowers present on this plant while I had two plants still.
The reality is, EVERY basket has fruit in it.
I very much doubt there are any othrr tomatillas anywhere near me, and I thought that each flower would need pollinating by a flower from another plant. Am I wdong? Is it only the initial pollination of one or two flowefs from another plant that is required for all future flowers to produce fruit?
When I bought my plant, there were two in the same pot. Trouble is, when only a very few flowers were present, strong winds snapped one of the plants. Without really knowing of the need to have two plants, I tried to transfer some pollen from a couple of flowers from the broken plant to the new. I then threw the broken one away.
Fast forward to now, many weeks later, I have a thriving plant, 3 to 4 feet high with tons of flowers and 'bbaskets'. Now, I was vefy pleasantly surprised when one of the very first baskets had a fruit growing in it, I thought I had got lucky from the tiny bit of hand pollination I had done between plants. I expected maybe 2-3 fruits at the very best, as that was roughly the number of flowers present on this plant while I had two plants still.
The reality is, EVERY basket has fruit in it.
I very much doubt there are any othrr tomatillas anywhere near me, and I thought that each flower would need pollinating by a flower from another plant. Am I wdong? Is it only the initial pollination of one or two flowefs from another plant that is required for all future flowers to produce fruit?
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