At last, in the Orange muscat block, the calyptra (covering the stamens and carpels) are brown and are beginning to be pushed off by the embryonic grape below. As is also the case in the Pinot gris block, the Cabernet sauvignon, and the Syrah.In botany, the grape flower is indeed the perfect flower as it is hermaphroditic - containing both female and male reproductive parts. Let the flowering begin...whoo hoo!
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This fertilization process has been so late this year I was beginning to wonder if the vines were just not interested in the process. I thought we would need to go out in search of some attractive suitors to get them motivated!
No bees are needed for this process...still, better late than never.
I guess there are advantages in being hermaphroditic...it would have saved me a lot of alimony for starters!
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