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Each flower has male and female parts so each can pollinate itself. A fan should be perfect to help shake things up a bit
 
Ditto on what everyone else said. If you find you aren't getting enough flowers polinated with the fan, you can always manually polinate with a Q-Tip.
 
If you have a fan with 3 speed settings, which setting should I set it at? I've only ever put it on speed setting 1 or 2 on the fan, not sure what other people do.

I've noticed my tomato plant has a number of flowers, but no fruit. It's the furtherest away from the fan, perhaps I might have to increase the speed.
 
MiLK_MaN said:
If you have a fan with 3 speed settings, which setting should I set it at? I've only ever put it on speed setting 1 or 2 on the fan, not sure what other people do.

I've noticed my tomato plant has a number of flowers, but no fruit. It's the furtherest away from the fan, perhaps I might have to increase the speed.
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It depends on...sigh...I know this is going to go dirty....it depends on how hard your fan blows.

One fan's 1 setting might be another fan's 11 setting ("This one goes to 11")
 
Yeah fair point, I kinda thought of that when I posted ... how long is a piece of string.

So out of your 11 settings, what's yours on?
 
if they are in Pots, y can't you just move them around, or move the fan to the other side, put another fan in.. lol my old setup had 6 PC fans(12v) 1 in each side blowing in, 2 in roof blowing out, and some Resistors to speed up or slow them down plus they were on 24/7 as i reakon good Air circulation is a must
i haven't tried Negative Ion generators or CO2 with chilli's yet (they do benefit other Kninds of plants so can't see why not)
 
Only two of the plants are in movable pots, the others are in the Autopot with their gravity fed water tubing connected.

I could move the pots between the housing chambers, but while I first thought I'd have plenty of room in this tent, its not extremely clear its going to be one tough ask to even pick ripe chillies off in a month or two given the lack of room I now have.

Maybe I should of gone that 2.8m x 1.4m x 2m tent. Missus wouldnt have been happy though
 
I run my fan at 3 air changes/hr (low) when temperatures are cooler and 10 air changes/hr during warmer weather.

I don't do anything else for pollination and I get plenty of fruit.
 
I found about a 1.5" pepper on a Bolivian Carrot yesterday when I was transplanting it. I hdn't even seen it blooming before!

Mike
 
I guess I am a nut then because I hand polinated all 300 plants last year so I could be sure that the pods were true to save there seeds. I picked about 5 to 10 flowers off each plant and used a q-tip to do them by hand that kept the seeds true. But it was a lot of work.
 
Vt,

The only plants I'm planning on growing inside this year are a Bhut, 7-pot and Scorpion. They will be in the same room, but far enough apart (and with no bees in the house) that cross-pollination shouldn't be a concern. But hey, if one pod does and I end up with a 7-Bhut, Bhut Scorpion or Scorpion Pot, I could probably live with that.:rolleyes:
 
Don't worry last year my wife accused me of loving my plants more than her. She said I spent more time with them than I did with her. I say at least they don't talk back. So what if I gave them a bit more TLC I am just a little parinoid about my pepeprs.
 
mine are all outside at the moment apart from the seedlings(greenhouse) there all a few inches apart any chance of cross polination so close to each other?
 
talas said:
mine are all outside at the moment apart from the seedlings(greenhouse) there all a few inches apart any chance of cross polination so close to each other?
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Yep.
 
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