Male isolation chamber ideas

[africaseeds]

I build a male isolation chamber, but instead of using a hepa filter. I've used two different surgical face masks to filter out the pollen. Anyone know if this will work? I'm busy doing an open polination in the isolation chamber (so mine is kinda a open polination chamber) and then I will test the resulting seeds. In the room I'm making f2's of a pure sativa. If the pollen does leak out of the box then I will see some indica expressions in the f2's of the Pure sativa I made.

Any ideas and suggestions?
Do you think the fabric that is used to make a surgical face mask could filter out pollen completely?

 

[Benny106]

I think they will work, great idea!

 

[JetLife175]

I build a male isolation chamber, but instead of using a hepa filter. I've used two different surgical face masks to filter out the pollen. Anyone know if this will work? I'm busy doing an open polination in the isolation chamber (so mine is kinda a open polination chamber) and then I will test the resulting seeds. In the room I'm making f2's of a pure sativa. If the pollen does leak out of the box then I will see some indica expressions in the f2's of the Pure sativa I made.


Any ideas and suggestions?
Do you think the fabric that is used to make a surgical face mask could filter out pollen completely?

It may mitigate some spread but I don’t believe it would 100% block pollen. If anything I would at least go with a N95 rated mask. They are all over the place in this day and age and can be found just about anywhere worldwide.

 

[burningfire]

It should work, N95 masks are rated for 0.3 micron and pollen is between 10 and 40 microns.



You should probably run the exhaust fan on the male side so it pulls the air from the female room into the male room and not the opposite and put the filters on the inlet by the female side of the grow.