
It is March and that means that pollination is in full swing. Because date trees are dioecious, meaning that male trees produce the pollen and female trees produce the fruit, pollen must be added to the female trees in order to produce dates. Last month we talked about gathering the pollen from the male trees, and now that the female trees are ready it is time to take that pollen that we have gathered, and put it on the newly opened bunches of the female tree.