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Will tomatillos set fruit without being pollinated?

 
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I have some really yummy looking tomatillos in the house this winter, hoping they'll give us fresh fruit over the winter. I don't require them to have viable seeds, but I DO want fruit.  Will they set fruit without pollinating?

They look like great winter fruit!
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Ooh, I'm interested in the answer to this too. I understand that they're self-incompatible, so my first thought was that you're out of luck, but I guess that doesn't really mean the plant won't grow fruits, so I'm not sure.
 
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There are about 7 plants in two big pots. They have been on a wagon going inside at night and  and out during the day for a while, so they got pollinated, and have fruit developing. They are indoors totally now, finally got their space ready for them, and they won't get pollinated any more. There are flowers, I am not in the mood to be a bee unless I absolutely must :D
 
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to my knowledge tomatillos won’t self pollinate at all. i think you might need to be the bee.

i know that with plants that will self-pollinate but don’t always indoors (like peppers), tapping the plant enough to loosen some pollen enough to make the very quick hop onto another structure in the same flower can make it happen…maybe if you can use fans to make a turbulent wind situation and you tap the plants, you’ll get lucky? or just be a bee.
 
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