The fast plant was hand pollinated by collecting pollen on the end of a Q-tip from the stamen on one stalk and using that pollen covered Q-tip to touch the tips of all the stigmas on all the other stalks. The only exception is that one can not cross pollinate to the same stalk. To pollinate the stalk that was used to collect the original pollen, pollen was collect from a different stalk with a fresh Q-tip and used to touch the tips of the original stalk.