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How do YOU isolate your plants?

I have tried various methods but for me isolating an entire plant is definately less fiddly than selecting individual flowers. Pick a plant with no open flowers and cover it with a fine mesh, I use net curtains (is that a British thing?) keep checking every other day or so until you have three or four fruits emerging which you know have 'selfed'. remove the mesh, Tag the fruits and pick them at their ripest, you probably know the rest! :cool:
 
My 2nd Reaper year plants have a ton of open flowers but no fruit yet. There are a few different varieties nearby each other. Sounds like it'll a be a crap shoot if I bag em up now, but I'd love to try it.
 
Do you think it's worth a try at this point?
 
I'll definitely try it out on some that haven't flowered yet
 
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