{"id":11149,"date":"2015-05-27T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=11149"},"modified":"2015-05-27T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T16:09:25","slug":"experiment-to-self-pollinate-the-apple-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=11149","title":{"rendered":"Experiment to hand pollinate the apple tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to hand pollinate the apple tree, in the chicken run, by using a paint brush but this experiment has failed. I had nothing to lose by giving it a try but I now know that it is a waste of time so won&#8217;t need to do this again.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11155\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pear_tree.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11155\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pear_tree.jpg\" alt=\"The pear tree in the garden has lots of tiny pears \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pear tree in the garden has lots of tiny pears<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11156\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/apple_tree_no_apples.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11156\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/apple_tree_no_apples.jpg\" alt=\"The apple tree in the chicken run has no apples\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The apple tree in the chicken run has no apples<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oh well, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Slight change of subject but I couldn&#8217;t resist this new plant for the garden.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11157\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/new_primular.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11157\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/new_primular.jpg\" alt=\"New primular\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New primula<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tying in with this post it is called Japanese primula &#8211; apple blossom. I liked it&#8217;s unusual height.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to hand pollinate the apple tree, in the chicken run, by using a paint brush but this experiment has failed. I had nothing to lose by giving it a try but I now know that it is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=11149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11160,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions\/11160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}