RIP pollen

[stawawager]

I've read here that pollen is only viable for 2 hours? I'd appreciate input and confirmation please This really determines HOW-MUCH cleaning I have to do. Nitch has been sitting for 4+ months. Thanks,

 

[Inferno37]

I have always heard a week.

 

[Urbz]

I was told if you dry it, mix it half and half with flour, and put it in the freezer it will last for months. I'm testing this in a couple weeks after my males flower.

 

[bertaluchi]

If stored in foil with dry rice in a freezer it can last quite a while. I don't know where you heard 2 hours but I would not take that as fact. I have seen polen that was 4 weeks old in paper pouches seed the hell out of some skunk.

 

[GroErr]

I've heard different answers but never in hours, I think you confused how long pollen should sit on a bud for it to take (pollinate the bud).

From my experience, I mix it about 3:1 flour/pollen, this is mainly so the flour picks up any moisture, not to increase the amount of pollen. If I'm going to pollinate relatively soon like within a week or two I just put it in the fridge. Longer I put the bag in a mason jar, fill it with rice and freeze it. The longest I've been able to keep it this way is about 4 months and it was still viable. I tried some that was 6 months (same storage technique) and got like 2 seeds. So my estimate is in the 4-5 month range if properly stored and moisture is kept out of it.

 

[Blazin Purps]

I just used some Purple Dream pollen that was 4 months old with no issues. I collected the pollen by tapping the plant and letting it fall onto paper then left it out to dry for 3 days. I put it in a small plastic tube with little desiccant balls and stored it in a dark cabinet at room temperature worked fine. I tried some year old pollen from a different strain collected and stored in the same way and it was not viable at all. If you use the freezer make sure to dry it 100% first or water in the pollen will freeze causing it to expand and rupture the pollen

 

[stawawager]

I've heard different answers but never in hours, I think you confused how long pollen should sit on a bud for it to take (pollinate the bud).

From my experience, I mix it about 3:1 flour/pollen, this is mainly so the flour picks up any moisture, not to increase the amount of pollen. If I'm going to pollinate relatively soon like within a week or two I just put it in the fridge. Longer I put the bag in a mason jar, fill it with rice and freeze it. The longest I've been able to keep it this way is about 4 months and it was still viable. I tried some that was 6 months (same storage technique) and got like 2 seeds. So my estimate is in the 4-5 month range if properly stored and moisture is kept out of it.

Seeds and pollen are my enemy. I vacuumed. Theres gotta be something to spray my walls with, mist alcohol on them/everywhere? Only water?

 

[stawawager]

I just used some Purple Dream pollen that was 4 months old with no issues. I collected the pollen by tapping the plant and letting it fall onto paper then left it out to dry for 3 days. I put it in a small plastic tube with little desiccant balls and stored it in a dark cabinet at room temperature worked fine. I tried some year old pollen from a different strain collected and stored in the same way and it was not viable at all. If you use the freezer make sure to dry it 100% first or water in the pollen will freeze causing it to expand and rupture the pollen

 

[stawawager]

Any idea what the high temperature is that will rupture pollen?

 

[Indagrow]

Seeds and pollen are my enemy. I vacuumed. Theres gotta be something to spray my walls with, mist alcohol on them/everywhere? Only water?

Water will do it boss.. Mist everything.. Wait and mist again to be safe

 

[WattSaver]

If you've had a pollen outbreak and want to neuter it, then just spray the area with water. Or more than likely it's time for a cleaning in your room throw a little bleach in a bucket of water and wipe everything down.

Bottom line water will neutralizer pollen.

 

[stawawager]

If you've had a pollen outbreak and want to neuter it, then just spray the area with water. Or more than likely it's time for a cleaning in your room throw a little bleach in a bucket of water and wipe everything down.

Bottom line water will neutralizer pollen.

Thanks,

On the first attempt I added this galaxyhydro light to the cfls after it started to flower thinking it was a good idea to add colors and it threw the bush into seeding and I didn't catch it. (7 months ago), pollen was falling all over.

 

[Urbz]

The light caused your plant to herm?? Maybe I'm misreading that? I have two of those fixtures, last harvest had no seeds. Maybe you need two?

 

[eastcoastled]

The light caused your plant to herm?? Maybe I'm misreading that? I have two of those fixtures, last harvest had no seeds. Maybe you need two?

definitely could have stressed the shit out of them going from cfl to led if the light was too close and full power....especially if they were in the middle of their transformation.

 

[Urbz]

I was really high. It was 4:20am my time. I didn't read the "after" part, thought he did CFL veg, LED flower. Yeah adding the LED after it was already flowering under CFLs could introduce you to Herman.

 

[stawawager]

The light caused your plant to herm?? Maybe I'm misreading that? I have two of those fixtures, last harvest had no seeds. Maybe you need two?

They were under cfl's for 4+ months doing nicely and flowering. Then they got the galaxyhydro which introduced uv and ir. That shocked them and they went crazy. Less than a week and they were ruined.

 

[brimck325]

i doubt very much that switching lights had anything to do with it. i would be more opt to believe it if you switch to a less intense light than you were using.
i've had pollen stay viable for 9-12 months.

 

[stawawager]

I was really high. It was 4:20am my time. I didn't read the "after" part, thought he did CFL veg, LED flower. Yeah adding the LED after it was already flowering under CFLs could introduce you to Herman.

Some of the flowers got these feits pointed right at them for 1 month. Not sure if that helped them? but they didn't go to seed until the galaxy.

Red is for veg? Or both?

I was really high. It was 4:20am my time. I didn't read the "after" part, thought he did CFL veg, LED flower. Yeah adding the LED after it was already flowering under CFLs could introduce you to Herman.

 

[stawawager]

definitely could have stressed the shit out of them going from cfl to led if the light was too close and full power....especially if they were in the middle of their transformation.

How close can the galaxy be?

 

[stawawager]

i doubt very much that switching lights had anything to do with it. i would be more opt to believe it if you switch to a less intense light than you were using.
i've had pollen stay viable for 9-12 months.

9-12 months?! Drag.