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[Olderfart]

I keep working on my ways of doing this stuff. Seems to be part of my diy addiction.

When making seeds, I like to pollenate single branches rather than whole plants, so I need to collect pollen. This is how I now do it.

First, I make myself a pollen strainer with a small mason, one of those tiny ones used for jelly. The screen is just a chunk of metal coffee filter screen that I cut out of an unneeded filter. I shape it a bit concave by cutting it a bit large, and forcing it into the mason ring so that the ring clamps it down beneath it. Here it is disassembled to show all parts:

And here it is after loading with male flowers from a reversed plant:

I pluck the flowers with a pair of sharp point disection tweezers. The ones marketed on Amazon for ingrown hair would work, they need to be sharp point. Once flowers are collected into the strainer, the entire mason goes into a stainless container with some silica gel in the bottom. After closing the stainless container and an overnight dry, I stir the flowers around and tap the jar to move pollen through the screen.

This is what I am left with in the mason, nearly pure pollen:

If I am ready to apply to a seed plant, this stuff is ready to go. If I want to store longer term, I move it into a small glass jar, and put it in the drying chamber for a few hours or overnight to make sure it is bone dry, then I cap it tightly and put it in the freezer. Here is my WDA pollen before it hit the freezer:

The silica gel in this pic needs to be dehydrated again, but it will finish the pollen off ok.

I have produced seeds with pollen kept in the freezer for more than a year, but am not sure how much longer it would remain viable.

Happy pollen handling peeps!

 

[Olderfart]

Nope, not at all suspicious

Hmmm. Even my dearest would notice the smell... And she claims that her sense of smell is bad.

I'm lucky, she uses my tincture, so she appreciates the end result. Mostly, she is just quietly amused at my efforts. She is a pretty patient mate - like I said, I am lucky. Not only that, I know it.

 

[PinkyNotTheBrain]

I keep working on my ways of doing this stuff. Seems to be part of my diy addiction.

When making seeds, I like to pollenate single branches rather than whole plants, so I need to collect pollen. This is how I now do it.

First, I make myself a pollen strainer with a small mason, one of those tiny ones used for jelly. The screen is just a chunk of metal coffee filter screen that I cut out of an unneeded filter. I shape it a bit concave by cutting it a bit large, and forcing it into the mason ring so that the ring clamps it down beneath it. Here it is disassembled to show all parts:View attachment 1662904

And here it is after loading with male flowers from a reversed plant:
View attachment 1662901

I pluck the flowers with a pair of sharp point disection tweezers. The ones marketed on Amazon for ingrown hair would work, they need to be sharp point. Once flowers are collected into the strainer, the entire mason goes into a stainless container with some silica gel in the bottom. After closing the stainless container and an overnight dry, I stir the flowers around and tap the jar to move pollen through the screen.

This is what I am left with in the mason, nearly pure pollen:

View attachment 1662902

If I am ready to apply to a seed plant, this stuff is ready to go. If I want to store longer term, I move it into a small glass jar, and put it in the drying chamber for a few hours or overnight to make sure it is bone dry, then I cap it tightly and put it in the freezer. Here is my WDA pollen before it hit the freezer:
View attachment 1662903

The silica gel in this pic needs to be dehydrated again, but it will finish the pollen off ok.

I have produced seeds with pollen kept in the freezer for more than a year, but am not sure how much longer it would remain viable.

Happy pollen handling peeps!

Thanks for the walkthrough bud!

 

[Mara Cachafa]

Hmmm. Even my dearest would notice the smell... And she claims that her sense of smell is bad.

I'm lucky, she uses my tincture, so she appreciates the end result. Mostly, she is just quietly amused at my efforts. She is a pretty patient mate - like I said, I am lucky. Not only that, I know it.

My grow has an 8" forced draft exhaust that goes straight up 35' through the attic roof. Most times the wind turbine is enough, but if the smell is getting out I can turn on the in-line booster fan (ACinfinity). The only problem is in Summer in calm winds when the aroma can wrap around the outside of the house and come in a window. If the Mrs. complains, I blame it on the stoners next door. Here on the Canadian border our roofs have 12/12 pitch, about 45° so big snow will slide off:

 

[Olderfart]

Just send him to reddit for help

Oh now that might be considered just mean...

 

[420Forever]

If the Mrs. complains, I blame it on the stoners next door.

ppp

 

[Olderfart]

Thanks for the walkthrough bud!

Welcome sir, whether useful or amusing, all good.

My grow has an 8" forced draft exhaust that goes straight up 35' through the attic roof. Most times the wind turbine is enough, but if the smell is getting out I can turn on the in-line booster fan (ACinfinity). The only problem is in Summer in calm winds when the aroma can wrap around the outside of the house and come in a window. If the Mrs. complains, I blame it on the stoners next door. Here on the Canadian border our roofs have 12/12 pitch, about 45° so big snow will slide off:
View attachment 1662905

I might have known that you would have that issue dialled. The only issue I have had with outdoor odour was when I had a few plants in a grow shelter down in the swamp next to our yard. The dearest, even with her poor smell, complained a bit when she went to that end of the yard on the ride on mower. She was still twenty meters from the grow. When the breeze was right, I could smell the plants all the way to our house. I sometimes wonder if the neighbours noticed, but if they did, no one said anything.

 

[Olderfart]

Thanks for the slaps @Lil Dab and @Mara Cachafa, much appreciated.

 

[Blue_dreamer]

I keep working on my ways of doing this stuff. Seems to be part of my diy addiction.

When making seeds, I like to pollenate single branches rather than whole plants, so I need to collect pollen. This is how I now do it.

First, I make myself a pollen strainer with a small mason, one of those tiny ones used for jelly. The screen is just a chunk of metal coffee filter screen that I cut out of an unneeded filter. I shape it a bit concave by cutting it a bit large, and forcing it into the mason ring so that the ring clamps it down beneath it. Here it is disassembled to show all parts:View attachment 1662904

And here it is after loading with male flowers from a reversed plant:
View attachment 1662901

I pluck the flowers with a pair of sharp point disection tweezers. The ones marketed on Amazon for ingrown hair would work, they need to be sharp point. Once flowers are collected into the strainer, the entire mason goes into a stainless container with some silica gel in the bottom. After closing the stainless container and an overnight dry, I stir the flowers around and tap the jar to move pollen through the screen.

This is what I am left with in the mason, nearly pure pollen:

View attachment 1662902

If I am ready to apply to a seed plant, this stuff is ready to go. If I want to store longer term, I move it into a small glass jar, and put it in the drying chamber for a few hours or overnight to make sure it is bone dry, then I cap it tightly and put it in the freezer. Here is my WDA pollen before it hit the freezer:
View attachment 1662903

The silica gel in this pic needs to be dehydrated again, but it will finish the pollen off ok.

I have produced seeds with pollen kept in the freezer for more than a year, but am not sure how much longer it would remain viable.

Happy pollen handling peeps!

That is VERY interesting looking! I'm going to get myself some screen soon to make that myself.

 

[Blue_dreamer]

My job is so fucking unbelievable. I’ll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with: First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe. The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I’m not sure she even showers, much less shaves her “womanly” parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store, she moans like a cat in heat. But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I’m sure after work. He probably hasn’t been sober anytime in the last ten years, and he’s only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960’s, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it’s trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonalds and Burger King, every single fucking day. Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.