How do you collect and store pollen?

Renfro said:

Definitely, I heard that you want to "dry" the cornstarch or flour before putting it with the pollen. Is that something you do? I have no personal experience with that method but they say your pollen goes a lot further because otherwise you are over pollinating with straight pollen.

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You can put it in a warm oven for awhile.

Fano_man said:

Have you ever tried to put the ppollen from mutiple strain at one plant think you would get any different breeds from that or because it never dawned on me

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I've pollinated different branches on the same plant with different pollen. Each pollinated branch is a different cross.

I've also reversed female plants for pollen to make feminized seeds. I've never encountered any hermies from those seeds.

Shamblychumb said:

Flour? Corn starch? Why do this? Why not just immediately pollinate. We're dreammakers, make it happen, no better time than now

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A male plant usually produces more pollen than needed. I pollinate and store the excess pollen in case I want to use some later without needing to grow out a male of that strain.

2:1 flour to pollen likely works great as per xtsho's comments I go even higher on the flour/starch as it provides increases desiccant protection (5 or 10 to 1 flour to pollen) it only take a single grain of pollen to make a seed right.