How to store pollen?
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rob333
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i have mine in a snap lock bag in the freezer seems to work pretty well
ODanksta
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Just the pollen?
mudballs
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best guess on shelf life is 2-4 months in ideal room temp conditions.4-8 in fridge. i saw a thread where a guy adds baking powder i think it was, to his pollen to extend shelf life then sticks it in freezer. should last more than 10mnths. it was on RIU recently. if you do put it in the freezer i would double bag to avoid freezer burn from touching walls.
rob333
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pollen and the male sacks i just pick the lot off into a bag minus the leaf
abe supercro
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mudballs
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"Pollen is microscopic. That little pouch contains enough pollen for thousands of seeds. Because it is so small it is also easy to waste. To make more efficient use of it consider adding a filler. Flour works well as a carrier for pollen but it must be sterilized first. Put the desired amount in a glass dish and bake at 300 degrees F for 15 minutes or so. Let it cool completely and then add the pollen to it and mix well."
from overgrow.com
now you got my interest peaked and i'm trying to find all the info i can on pollen.
from overgrow.com
now you got my interest peaked and i'm trying to find all the info i can on pollen.
rob333
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i was bit smashed last night and forgot a vital part i dry the pollan and sacks out for 4-7days on a mirror then i transfer into a snap lock bag and freeze im not to sure about wax pappers but i go one snap lock bag then that bag into a pound bag wrap and store in the freezer i have pollen that is 2 years old still seeding females so it must work
abe supercro
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rob333
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ohhh baking papper lolol yeah that works awsome my old man uses it he is the one that showed me how to grow his like the dalai lama of cannabis
rob333
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his 68 started growing be4 man invented the wheels he says lolol thhink he started when he was 17 or somthing lol telling me about when hps came out and got the same wrap as leds do now lol he was saying alot guys he new got into knocking off street lamps which are lps not hps
abe supercro
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I vividly recall how I thought compact fluorescents were changing the game some... like they were revolutionary; When Dali Lama, your-dad, had his first grow in a covered wagon!
ODanksta
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I am planning on vacuum sealing the pollen..
thump easy
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Get silica pacs not the humidity but the kind that come with new shoes or shit it suck moister out the bag.
mudballs
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i have yet to find how or why a pollen deteriorates and it pisses me off. as far as i can tell they're little bags of protein.all i can find are pretty scanning electron microscope pictures.i like to understand shit instead of just regurgitating info.i never had to preserve it, it just sits in a jar, pollen sacks and all, on the desk till i use it.
abe supercro
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dry, cool, dark and sealed with low oxygen wld be ideal for storage.
thump easy
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What kind of microscope I to have thought about it as well n use it to identify my mold or broad might situation if I have one and measure the cells of diffrent strains or compare in diffrent weeks
abe supercro
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for pests a video microscope where you can record details and movement, that wld be the shit.
ODanksta
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Ok let me get this straight, first cut only the sacks off, dry them on a mirror for about a week, throw out plant material. Scoop the pollen onto parchment paper, cut with flour, fold up into little squares, after folded place a pouch of silica on top then put into small 3"x3" bag, then vacuum seal the 3x3 bag.... my last question fridge or freezer?