Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...

How to hand-pollinate cross-pollinating plants. For cross pollinating plants like squash or cucumbers, you will need to be able to identify the male and female flowers on the plant in order to ...

Unless your citrus tree is tall and you can't safely reach all the fruits by hand, manual thinning is the way to go. Hold the fruit with two fingers and twist it off the branch.