Discover how a horticulturist promotes strong flower growth by removing weak buds and via cross-pollination
Horticulturalist pollinating rubber plants
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Controlling the pollination of plants is a common horticultural practice. This horticulturist is removing some of the buds from a rubber plant so that the remaining buds will grow into stronger flowers.
To pollinate the remaining buds, the horticulturist dusts them with pollen selected from a strong, healthy rubber plant. The seeds produced by this cross-pollination will grow into rubber plants that have the best characteristics of both parent plants--the plant that produced the pollen and the fertilized plant that produced the seeds.
To pollinate the remaining buds, the horticulturist dusts them with pollen selected from a strong, healthy rubber plant. The seeds produced by this cross-pollination will grow into rubber plants that have the best characteristics of both parent plants--the plant that produced the pollen and the fertilized plant that produced the seeds.
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