Differentiating Dates of Male and Female Flower On Tropical Dates

Many are asking why dates in planting using seeds rarely bear fruit?

Because dates are planted from seeds are usually mostly males, well how to know dates that we plant the female visually?

in their home country dates rarely planting process from seeds but separated tillers, so sex is clear ..

How to distinguish males and females?

 the female flowers on the date flowers are round shape and the male flowers are not

Meanwhile, to produce fruitful dates that we need female dates, it is very difficult to make in Indonesia to date female then no wonder the price of date palm in Indonesia is still quite expensive.

Here's an explanation picture to distinguish males and females

Male Dates

Female date

To get a quality date palm pollinating male and female flowers is very necessary in this process there is a natural one of them due to male flowers are studded and blown by the wind so that the male flowers fall in the female flowers, this can be referred to as natural pollination .

there is also pollination of human assistance, at this stage we take the male flowers, male flowers in pound at the female flowers slowly do not let the female flowers sprinkled or can also sprinkle the flowers of male flowers which are then sown in the female flowers, this is the intention of pollination artificial.

regardless of the female dates can be fruitful without the help of pollination from the males but the results are very different even some are not able to bear fruit because of the absence of pollination from male flowers.

both pollinating natural and artificial pollination purposes are equally so that the dates can not bear fruit.

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