Indoor-Plant Sex.  Tickle, Tickle, Tickle!
Channel: AnneBeck58
Date: 2018-02-24

My pepper plants are on their third year, in the same pot, alive...  Last season, they produced two peppers.  The year before, none (that I can recall.)
So I have decided to try my hand at a bit of cross-pollination, as I have blooms on two plants (at once.)  It's the first time I've seen more than one bloom, at a time, on this plant.  But, I was able to create blossoms (and fruit) on my very strange prickly pear(s), last year, by doing this same thing.  So, hopefully, some of the pollinated blooms will stay on the plant and grow up into something.  It would be great because these plants do not get any sort of pesticide applied to them, as they live in my front window, on this side of the glass.  I'm not really growing them to feed myself, but a pepper or two would be fun, and I would eat them.

Either way, it is a fun thing to try out, and who doesn't want to, "play bee"?  I saw the Japanese farmers doing this, with feathers. I don't have feathers, but, I do have lots of scraps of fabric, and cut one into a very tin (1/8") strip, just for this job.
Hope it works.  I do provide them with grow-lights, every night, and most days.  Why?  We just don't have enough sunlight, any longer, even for a south-facing potted plant.
Wonder why?