Help collecting and processing pollen

[Tmik]

I’ve tried making fem pollen twice. My STS worked both times and produced lots of “male” flower. The first time the pollen just stuck together like little bananas. The second time I got plenty of pollen but it was sterile.

so…new plant. I cut back on STS to just a few times of spraying. I now have a plant that has half male Pollen sacks and some ”fem” flower buds.

Hopefully I’ll get some seeds from this but I’d like to hear from more experienced growers in this: when you harvest pollen sacks, how you dry them, how you collect the pollen?

A pic of my STS sprayed plant and the ”stealth” clone box I built for my pollen/seed making away from my grow area.
thanks for feedback and suggestions…

 

[mudballs]

Wait until they pop open like an umbrella, that just exposes the pollen containing nanners. Then pluck whole pod off with sterile tweezers and put in some small open container to dry for a few hours..leave unopened sacs on plant..you'll see the nanners in cup pop open by themselves or tap cup firmly and watch them pop from the tension of being dry and their bannana shape.
Then screen like dry sift to get rid of casings. Don't touch or handle pollen with your oily fingertips.

 

[stiff]

Maybe @Doug Dawson could chime in here and tell you the secrets of the trade.
He's got a really good system going on for collecting,drying and storing pollen.

 

[mudballs]

Doug is cool, met him on OG...passionate guy.

 

[Tmik]

Wait until they pop open like an umbrella, that just exposes the pollen containing nanners. Then pluck whole pod off with sterile tweezers and put in some small open container to dry for a few hours..leave unopened sacs on plant..you'll see the nanners in cup pop open by themselves or tap cup firmly and watch them pop from the tension of being dry and their bannana shape.
Then screen like dry sift to get rid of casings. Don't touch or handle pollen with your oily fingertips.

Really a great description and answered my question perfectly.
thanks @mudballs

 

[blynx]

I did like Mudballs and picked the individual open male flowers off with tweezers. I let them sit on a piece of paper for a day so the pollen could 'dry' out. I then use a tea-ball to strain out the plant material from the pollen. I put the pollen in a small aluminum foil packet with strain name and date. I put that packet into a small ziplock bag that has a little Damprid (dessicant) in it, put the ziplock in a glass jar, vacuum pack the jar, and store in freezer until needed.

Using this method I've had pollen last 10+ years, but I did notice that the older the pollen got, the more male plants the seeds seemed to produce.

 

[Doug Dawson]

I’ve tried making fem pollen twice. My STS worked both times and produced lots of “male” flower. The first time the pollen just stuck together like little bananas. The second time I got plenty of pollen but it was sterile.

so…new plant. I cut back on STS to just a few times of spraying. I now have a plant that has half male Pollen sacks and some ”fem” flower buds.

Hopefully I’ll get some seeds from this but I’d like to hear from more experienced growers in this: when you harvest pollen sacks, how you dry them, how you collect the pollen?

A pic of my STS sprayed plant and the ”stealth” clone box I built for my pollen/seed making away from my grow area.
thanks for feedback and suggestions…

I have a simple method for collecting pollen. I take branches one by one and tap them over a large metal bowl daily while the males are producing. That collects all the pollen that's dropping and some plant material that is loose and easily falls off. I then put the material through a pollen shaker which removes all the plant matter. I find it dries much quicker when the plant material is gone. I put the clean pollen into an ammo box that has a gasket so it's air tight. I add an evadry portable Dehumidifier in with it which sucks up the moisture. I stir the pollen daily and once it's dry it can be stored in the fridge for short term and the freezer for long term storage. Collected 89.5 grams of BOG LSD pollen from my current run. There will be tons of LSD crosses popping up soon.

 

[ojd]

I did like Mudballs and picked the individual open male flowers off with tweezers. I let them sit on a piece of paper for a day so the pollen could 'dry' out. I then use a tea-ball to strain out the plant material from the pollen. I put the pollen in a small aluminum foil packet with strain name and date. I put that packet into a small ziplock bag that has a little Damprid (dessicant) in it, put the ziplock in a glass jar, vacuum pack the jar, and store in freezer until needed.

Using this method I've had pollen last 10+ years, but I did notice that the older the pollen got, the more male plants the seeds seemed to produce.

You had Reversed Feminized pollen last 10 years in the freezer or Regular Male pollen ?

 

[blynx]

You had Reversed Feminized pollen last 10 years in the freezer or Regular Male pollen ?

regular male pollen

 

[Tmik]

Golden tiger fem pollen.

 

[Tmik]

I recently graduated to pollen chucker and I couldn’t be happier.
maybe I can graduate to breeder someday.

My stealth clone cabinet.
3 cuts in 1 gal pots of Golden Tiger. 2 were reversed and started throwing pollen so I put in a cut from my flower tent to make some seeds. They are 12-17” tall.
these were small cuts I flipped as soon as I saw roots. Also topped a few times.
running 10/14 to hurry them along.
my first time running little ones like this. i saw a post by @Tangwena that was helpful in trying this.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

I recently graduated to pollen chucker and I couldn’t be happier.
maybe I can graduate to breeder someday.

My stealth clone cabinet.
3 cuts in 1 gal pots of Golden Tiger. 2 were reversed and started throwing pollen so I put in a cut from my flower tent to make some seeds. They are 12-17” tall.
these were small cuts I flipped as soon as I saw roots. Also topped a few times.
running 10/14 to hurry them along.
my first time running little ones like this. i saw a post by @Tangwena that was helpful in trying this.

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How long has the pollen throwing male been in the tent with that female?

 

[Tmik]

How long has the pollen throwing male been in the tent with that female?

I just put the female in a few days ago so 7 or 8 more weeks to go now. I’ll collect one more round of pollen and pitch the reversed ones. My comical pollination technique was to shake one of the reversed ones over the female and let it rain pollen.

 

[Tangwena]

She will be well knocked up by now ha ha.
I love making seeds from proven genetics you cant go wrong.

 

[mudballs]

I just put the female in a few days ago so 7 or 8 more weeks to go now. I’ll collect one more round of pollen and pitch the reversed ones. My comical pollination technique was to shake one of the reversed ones over the female and let it rain pollen.

I cut branches off males and just walk around whacking females with the branches...real fun