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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Bisexuality usually refers to sexual preference, alongside homosexuality and heterosexuality. Shouldn't this post be referring to the flower as hermaphroditic rather than bisexual?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

No, bisexuals are perfect

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Either than or intersex. But definitely not bisexual. This is not what bisexual means at all!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, bisexual means something else in both contexts...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tomatoes are awesome this way, and why they're so easy to grow. Even without bees. A stiff breeze is enough to make them pollinate. Perfect bisexual.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep. Pepper plants as well. I just give mine a good shake unless I'm crossing specific varieties in a wind-less environment looking for specific outcomes.

If I've got a cool cross I'll put it under grow lights in the garage and pollinate it by using a cotton swab. If everything works out in a few generations I have a neat new breed by self pollinating a cross breed.

Edit: I'm not growing peppers in a Windows environment. That'll teach me to comment while drunk! (No it won't)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Cliestogamy - flowers that pollinate themselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Confused - I like flowers but don't have a blog.

[–] Viking_Hippie 3 points 1 week ago

I like flowers but don't have a blog

Impossible!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Monosexual imperfect flower meanwhile: I exist too, you know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Fuck it I'm a flower by Crying Day Care Choir.