Help me collect pollen...?

[PoopyTeaBags]

ok everyone... i got a tent with three nycd males flowering and nutting on old glass inserts from shields...

now i dont want to open the tent for another week or two... cause iim scared ill seed my room thats almost done...

my question is.. if left on the glass to be collected at the end of the plants life will it become sterile?

do i have to collect it little at a time and store it right?

 

[DMXAK47]

i have never collected pollen but on here ive seen guys with paper bags or foil over there male plants to collect pollen i would ask some one like peat if you have any questions about collecting pollen.i found this-
1) Place a dry, sterile, open bag/container under the opening male flowers.

2) Gently tap the stem with a finger. The pollen will slowly settle into the container. (If you are careful, only a few flowers will fall into the mix.

3) Remove any flower/plant parts that land in your container with the pollen. Tap them off gently before removing, to recover the pollen. (Moisture = BAD)


4) Dilute pollen with sterilized flour at a four-to-one ratio. This will allow more coverage if required (Optional)


5) Refrigerate until use. (Viable for around 3-5 days)

6) Immediately change your clothing and clean up before going near your female plants.

[Also, it is a good idea to isolate your pets during this time. I had a cat run in once when I was collecting pollen and after I chased it out, it promptly ran downstairs and into my Flowering room. A month later I had some very unusually crossed beans]

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

so your telling me pollen is viable for only 3-5 days???? so everything thats been falling is now sterile?

i have yet to collect the pollen it is in the tent on the glass inserts.... wtf...

 

[DMXAK47]

this one says it will be good for about a month if stored right.

It is possible to breed and select cuttings from plants that grow, flower, and mature faster. Some plants will naturally be better than others in this regard, and it is easy to select not only the most potent plants to clone or breed, but the fastest growing/flowering plants as well. Find your fastest growth plant, and breed it with your "best high" male for fast flowering, potent strains. Clone your fastest, best high plant for the quickest monocrop garden possible. Over time, it will save you a lot of waiting around for your plants to mature.
When a male is starting to flower (2-4 weeks before the females) it should be removed from the females so it does not pollinate them. It is taken to a separate area. Any place that gets just a few hours of light per day will be adequate, including close to a window in a separate room in the house. Put newspaper or glass under it to catch the pollen as the flowers drop it.
Keep a male alive indefinitely by bending the top severely and putting it in mild shock that delays it is maturity. Or take the tops as they mature and put the branches in water, over a piece of plate glass. Shake the branches every morning to release pollen onto the glass and then scrap it with a razor blade to collect it. A male pruned in this fashion stays alive indefinately and will continue to produce flowers if it gets suitable dark periods. This is much better than putting pollen in the freezer! Fresh pollen is always best.
When breeding marijuana save pollen in an air tight bag in the freezer. It will be good for about a month. It may be several more weeks before the females are ready to pollinate. Put a paper towel in the bag with it to act as a desecant.
A plant is ready to pollinate 2 weeks after the clusters of female flowers first appear. If you pollinate too early, it may not work. Wait until the female flowers are well established, but still all while hairs are showing.
Turn off all fans. Use a paper bag to pollinate a branch of a female plant. Use different pollen from two males on separate branches. Wrap the bag around the branch and seal it at the opening to the branch. Shake the branch vigorously. Wet the paper bag after a few minutes with a sprayer and then carefully remove it. Large plastic zip-lock bags also. Slip the bag over the male branch and shake the pollen loose. Carefully remove the bad and zip it up. It should be very dusty with pollen. To pollinate, place it over a single branch of the female, zipping it up sideways around the stem so no pollen leaks out. Shake the bag and the stem at the same time. Allow to settle for an hour or two and shake it again. Remove it a few hours later. Your branch is now well pollinated and should show signs of visible seed production in 2 weeks, with ripe seeds splitting the calyxes by 3-6 weeks. One pollinated branch can create hundreds of seeds, so it should not be necessary to pollinate more than one or two branches in many cases.​

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

pollen can last three years if stored correctly what im trying to find out in how many days do i have to collect the pollen and store it correctly before it goes junk?

i was under the impression that you could just let it collect on some glass till end of flowering then collect the pollen and store it right for later use...

 

[šunka-maslo]

Hi

I collected the pollen of a NYCD male exactly like you do, except that everyday, i went into the room and check the open flowers be levied for the pollen, and i let the glass closed with the pollen at least a week in the homebox...when i was done with the male, i put the glass in the fridge, and the pollen worked for less than a year, at the end i could put 1gr^^ of pollen on a plant and had only two seeds...

This is from my little experience

 

[ehonda187]

As long as the humidity is very low, I don't see a viability problem in letting the pollen sit for extended periods of time. I have allowed it to sit for almost 2 weeks before I collected it off the newspaper....I used newspaper to act like a desicant to absorb and wick away the moisture as the pollen rests.
I stored it in vials mixed with rice to help combat moisture absorption, sealed it and put in it in the fridge. Used a paintbrush and simply painted it on when it was time. I kept viable pollen for over 2 years this way.
Hope that helps you bro.