Billy Boy

A male and a female plant are growing side by side… when does fertilization actually occur?

bluecheese

When the male drops his pollen onto the female.

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So if you had a female that had not started to flower and the male dropped pollen on it - it would then be fertilized? Conversely, if the female were toward the end of the flowering cycle – could she still be fertilized and still yield seeds?

stoney-trees

The plants need to be mature enough to "have sex".

A vegging plant has no "parts to get/make pregnant. So a flowering male could not pollinate a vegging female. Simply because the pollen has no place to go.

Think of a guy, who surgically bacame female. You couldnt get her pregnant,well him lol. Doesnt have the right "parts".

As for a seeded crop, they dont develop in a week. Takes time. Most pollinate week 2-3 of flowering for mature seeds. Dont get me wrong though, you could end up with a bunch of imature seeds. Thats even worse because they are so small you cant see, and you cant even use them.

incognito weedo

in angiosperms: After the pollen tube reaches the ovary the pollen tube nucleus disintegrates and the two sperm cells are released into the ovary; one of the two sperm cells fertilises the egg cell (at the bottom of the ovule near the micropyle), forming a diploid (2n) zygote.

This is the point when fertilisation actually occurs.

Note that pollination and fertilisation are two separate processes.

-iDub

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