Pollination Vs.

Fertilization

Pollination
Pollination is the process by which pollen
is transferred in plants, thereby enabling
fertilization and sexual reproduction.

Fetilization
After the pistil is pollinated, the pollen
grain germinates in a response to a
sugary fluid secreted by the mature stigma
(mainly sucrose). From each pollen grain,
a pollen tube grows out that attempts to
travel to the ovary by creating a path
through the female tissue.

Once fertilized, the ovary

becomes the Fruits. The
purpose of the ovary is to
carry and nourish the seeds.
Once Fertiized, the ovule
becomes the seeds.

List FIVE favorite edible ovaries:

List FIVE favorite edible ovules:

Self pollination

Few plants actually self pollinate. The mechanism

is seen most often in some legumes like peanuts
and soybeans.

Cross-Pollination
Cross-pollination, also called allogamy
occurs when pollen is delivered to a flower
from a different plant. Plants adapted to
outcross or cross-pollinate often have
taller stamens than carpels or use other
mechanisms to better ensure the spread
of pollen to other plants flowers.

Cross-pollination

Hybrids

A hybrid is the combination of two or more different things,

aimed at achieving a particular objective or goal.

True to Seed
Seeds collected
from a plant will be
an exact copy of
that plant!
Very few plants are
true to seed.

True to Type
That means seed collected from plants
from this season, when germinated and
grown next season, will produce plants
that are same type to the plants that the
seeds were collected from.
Most must be done through cuttings of the
plant

Heres How You Really Get Sowin

Largest Seed in the World

Coco de Mer
A single seed may be
12 inches (30 cm)
long, nearly three feet
(0.9 m) in
circumference and
weigh 40 pounds (18
kg)

Smallest Seed in the World

Microscopic view of
the seed of a coralroot orcid
(Corallorhiza
maculata). The
individual seed is
only about 0.2 mm in
diameter. In fact,
there are unusual
bacterial cells that
are larger than this
orchid seed.

Germination Rate
Number of seeds that will make into a
viable plant.
You want to get a 75% germination rate
out of most plants. But some wont!

Stratification
stratification is the process of pretreating
seeds to simulate natural winter conditions
that a seed must endure before
germination. Many seed species undergo
an embryonic dormancy phase, and
generally will not sprout until this
dormancy is broken.

 Aster
Rudebeckia
Iris

Scarification
Seed coat (external dormancy) results
from a seed's hard seed coat that is
impervious to water and gases. The seed
will not germinate until the seed coat is
altered physically.