Can cacti flowers produce fruit?
If you want to know whether cacti flowers produce fruit and the related experience of flower planting concerning the appearance and characteristics of cacti, the following will introduce these topics.
Recently, many flower friends often ask Xiao Qi about why their plants or fruits do not produce fruit after flowering. If you are growing them indoors, the lack of fruit after flowering is usually due to improper operation. There are two reasons for this, which apply to both flowers and fruits. Once you learn these, you can try them next time to ensure a bountiful harvest of large, sweet fruits.
1. Pollination is required
We need to understand that the fruits and vegetables we eat, such as tomatoes and peppers, when grown outdoors in the garden, do not require manual pollination to produce fruit. Why is that? Because there is wind and insects. The wind blows onto the flowers, causing the pollen to naturally fall off and land on the pistil, thus completing pollination without manual intervention, allowing successful fruit setting.
However, many people are growing them on balconies or indoors where there is no wind or insects. What should we do then? Insects can't fly in to pollinate them, and the wind can't pollinate them either. We can only resort to artificial pollination. We can buy some pollination pens or cotton swabs, dip them into the pollen on the stamens, and then directly apply it to the pistils to complete pollination. If you do this every time, the fruits and vegetables you grow, including fruit trees, can be successfully pollinated and will produce fruit.
2. Cross-pollination is required
Many of the plants and fruit trees we grow need to be cross-pollinated. For example, when a cactus flowers, if you pollinate it with just one flower, it won't produce seeds because it needs another flower for pollination, and it has to be from a different parent plant, meaning that the seeds of the cactus are not a problem from different parent plants.
For instance, the kiwi fruit we grow needs to be male and female. The male tree produces male flowers, and the female tree produces female flowers. You have to use the male tree's flowers to pollinate the female tree's flowers to produce fruit. Many other plants also require cross-pollination. If you find that pollination with its own flowers is not successful, then you can buy another plant for pollination to succeed.
In a home garden, many plants will produce fruit after flowering, including the tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and some fruit trees that we know, such as lemon and orange trees grown in pots. They all need to be pollinated to produce fruit. If your plants do not produce fruit, you should definitely try pollination.
Also, we must ensure that the plants receive adequate sunlight and that fertilizers are applied during the flowering and fruit-setting stage. Using more high-phosphorus and high-potassium fertilizers will help them to set fruit normally. After the fruit has set, it is also important to ensure adequate fertilization and sunlight to prevent fruit drop. The fruit will then grow quickly, and we can harvest it to eat or keep it for observation.
The above is a comprehensive explanation of whether cacti flowers produce fruit and the detailed methods for describing the appearance and characteristics of cacti. I hope this can serve as a starting point to solve your problems with green plants.