Need help collecting pollen
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Dr. Who
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Put a plastic baggy over the branch or what ever and zip tie or twist tie it shut.
Let the males drop spooge for a cpl of days and then shake the bag and branch upside down as best you can. (setting the plant on it's side helps) Let the pollen settle, or let it go another day and do it again for more. let the pollen settle and in a safe place...Carefully remove the bag and seal it! Store in the freezer with as little air in the bag as you can.
Let the males drop spooge for a cpl of days and then shake the bag and branch upside down as best you can. (setting the plant on it's side helps) Let the pollen settle, or let it go another day and do it again for more. let the pollen settle and in a safe place...Carefully remove the bag and seal it! Store in the freezer with as little air in the bag as you can.
Dr. Who
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P.S. Use a vary small and pointy artist's squirrel hare brush to dip in the pollen and touch to the pistils all over as many buds as you want to produce seeds...I would do that in a safe place also - move the female there and hit her up. Let her sit for a few hrs and lightly blow her off and either carefully put her back or like I do. I have a place specifically for pollinated girls.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Poontanger
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Dr, may i ask how long you can store pollen , this way ??
Dr. Who
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Around a year..
Best way to make that happen is to dry the pollen out as best you can and vac seal it......Better yet would be to "flash freeze" it with liquid Nitrogen......I'll bet dry ice would work pretty good to. A deep freeze is far better then the one on your fridge!
chemphlegm
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I use that bag method to collect pollen too^. the longest so far for me is a year. I vacseal the pollen at room temp with a desiccant bag inside and into the freezer. I find if I retrieve some that I cant expect to refreeze with any success, but a year later, although diminished success, some is viable. only funs for me, but seems like a year and a week and its dead-so far with my haphazard methods.
