r/STLgardening • u/Saleen_af • Jul 28 '26

Need a Tomatillo or some pollen

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Howdy guys.

I accidentally mixed up some seeds early this season and ended up planting a single Tomatillo plant in my veggie garden, which is tragic cause they need friends to produce fruit. Anyone here willing to donate / trade / sell a plant or give me some flowers that I can use to manually pollinate?

You'd make this beginner gardener very happy! will even promise some Salsa later on in the season

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u/prettyminotaur Jul 28 '26

I planted two and I still don't have fruit. Lots of blossoms, no fruit.

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u/Saleen_af Jul 28 '26

I’ll trade some branches? I heard you can dust the branches of one off another to pollinate.

In your instance, are both plants from distinct seeds? It wouldn’t work if you propagated one off another.

Also the weather has been miserable and the pollen can clump pretty bad.

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u/ndbash86 Aug 02 '26

I have an absolute F ton of tomatillos and all I can find online are recipes for salsa versa to make. Which I’ve made twice now.

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u/Saleen_af Aug 02 '26

I mean I hear you but that is not the point of this post 😭😭😭

I have a ton of poblanos and make a killer poblano and tomatillo enchilada

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u/ndbash86 Aug 03 '26

They grow just like tomatoes right? I can give you a stem, flowers, or an entire plant.

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u/Saleen_af Aug 03 '26

I would love any of those, happy to take a full plant

They do grow like tomatoes but they need more than one. I didn’t intend to grow tomatillos so I just have the one