Flowering fruit plants

One of my plants has little flowers, what should i do in order to get fruit. Should i try artifically pollinating them ???

 

Please could you tell us what kind of fruit plants they are? And are they inside or outside?

 

its outside peach

 

You can brush the anthers (fuzzy outer bits) with a clean paintbrush and paint the pollen onto the stigma (tip in the middle) and thatll encourage it. Otherwise wind and bees will attempt it!

 

Spray the flowers very lightly with water on a dry sunny day.

 

Im pretty sure its too cold for bees but i guess there is wind . The internet says the flowers only last 2 weeks (shorter if there is frost damage)

 

what does this do ?

 

It moves the pollen around, the flowers are self fertile so it doesn't need to move from flower to flower.
Only a fine spray don't drench them.
Only do it once a day around midday, as warm as possible weather wise.
You can do the brush thing mentioned by Adam as well, it all helps, just do the brush on dry flowers.

 

My understanding is that they only flower for around 10 days. Im not 100% sure that there is going to be a dry sunny day (it was raining yesterday) plus i think we are on around day 5

 

We use the paintbrush technique on our peach tree. I try and do every day for the first week or so, then my enthusiasm wanes and the amount of open blossom is dizzying. We always get a good crop

Ours is in the GH but I open the doors every day, whatever the weather, to hopefully get some insect pollinators in as well. Interestingly 2 bees came into the GH whilst I was in there yesterday. Both spent all their time trying to find their way back out, they didn’t pay any attention to the 6ft tall, smothered in blossom, tree

 

Forgot to add, I used to use an old bristly pastry brush until the final bristles fell out, then pinched a 1” paintbrush from OH’s decorating supplies

 

i wasnt expecting any flowers so i dont have a suitable brush. I am going to have to go to an art shop tomorrow to get one or two and hope that the flowers are still around at the weekend. Mines is outside. Were you not worried about the paint brush or pastry brush contaminating the plant ?

 

No, the pastry brush had been washed and the paintbrush was a spare unused one (but I wouldn’t have worried about an old, clean one). Don’t spend lots of money on fancy brushes, the cheapest one will do.

 

You can pick off one flower and just use that, or one anther. Only needs 1 pollen per stamen. One sperm one seed

 

I bought some makeup brushes in morrisons.

The traditional means was,I believe, a rabbits foot on a long stick.