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Old 09-16-2008, 10:25 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: The humming birds are killing me!

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Originally Posted by Lagniappe View Post
If a hummingbird can knock them off,they're probably male flowers and can be knocked off just my looking at them too hard. I've watched them fall with bees still attached and they just held on for the ride and continued feeding after it hit the ground. Do you have a pic ?
I have attached pictures. How do I tell a male flower from a female? (Keep it clean!) This happend last year and I had a few bananas as the rest of the flowers fell off. You can see in the second picture a pile of flowers that are at the base of my plant.

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