[ezozo]

I am using silica gel to let the pollen dry.
I found that rice can catch mold.
you can but silica gel in 50 gram bags (~5$) the balls are blue when they dry and getting pink when the soaked.
you can re-used them - let them dry on the oven/micro for fer minuts and they will tern blue again.

here is the pack

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here is how I put them in a film box

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then I every day type on some male flowers in to the box.

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then after few days I have

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look at the sillica balls turning pink the I add some more.
I keep them in the refrigerator till I need to pollinated the ladys and if I need to send them or to save them for longer time -

I put the pollen in a small bag will new sillica gel and freez them after they are dry


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PS - my max time that I try to use saved pollen was 7 months with success but not 100%

zozo

Top pics man,
just what i was looking for, thanks buddy.

here's a hint for pollen collection - once the males show sex bend them down horizontal if they are planted in the ground, I also trim them down to a much smaller size as one small branch can make 1000's of seeds...

also when pollen is about to be released remove the large leaves from the around the males " buds" - do this and the pollen will be much easier to collect....

Since males mature weeks ahead of females, and storing pollen is not always successful, you can retard the male's pollen drop by removing all the growing tips and preflowers on the plant....I've de-tipped males twice to postpone pollen drop...but don't cut back a plant too serverely or you may kill it

Once collected ideally use a stash box screen frame for separating bits of male flowers and the pollen........ ..I use a sheet of white paper to collect pollen as it is easy to fold and pour once it has been tapped out....be careful with pollen around your girls, a little goes a long way and will make plenty of seed.

A good time to pollenate the fems is about 5 or 6 weeks before harvest when the female flowers are fresh and new, seed a lower branch is best....with long flowering sativas you have to be careful, once the seeds are mature they readily drop them so don't seed them too early or you may lose some or ve prepared to hand pick them off as they mature, indica seed tend to stay on the bud (perhaps to survive winter?)

I make seed every year. This year I have a Cindy x Black Domina male that seeded a Zamal x Nev Haze fem, and a Cindy 99 and I also seeded an original Zamal clone ..and a Jack Herer male that was the most vibrant plant with the largest leaves I've grown in years ( let's hope his vigor is passed on!)

happy pollenating!

[Hypergrl420]

This may be stupid, but how do you know the seeds are fully grown in the bud?

[Harry Gypsna]

Originally Posted by Hypergrl420

This may be stupid, but how do you know the seeds are fully grown in the bud?

U dont, but u can see em forming i believe, i think its trial and error

[Hypergrl420]

I guess you let it grow till you chop and then see what you got inside for the seeds huh? Thanks for answering my question.

[ezozo]

First you see the seeds growing.
if you pollinated them on time 4-5 week before the end you will get seeds.

me when I harvest I leave the seeded bud for a week more anyway I send to to bubble
The I have more mature seeds in the buds



peace
zozo

ezozo is the man.
i am soon to harvest my deep chunk beans. I know they are there because you will see a few seed pods skin layers that are showing color or cracking...when you fiddle with the buds youl find hundreds of the buggers that at first may look like calyxs but have seeds inside.

I used to have an old close up pic of a seed in gestation up close, it was pretty awesome. I find sometimes i can see them on some strains more than others. If you let it ripen beyond beliefe they will fall off when done properly i would say.

[Harry Gypsna]

Ive got a nice Sour bubble male with big balls, hes gonna do the nasty with a clone of everything i got, hahaha, sb x allsorts.

[Kenny Lingus]

When a flower is germinated by pollen you will notice it's hairs wither within a couple of days or so... Later the flower/calyxe will swell into a rounder and much bigger nut than on sinsemilla buds. This is of course only visible when the seeded flower is at the outside of a bud, and you will see the calyxe/seed-pod changing colour/ripen/dry out/dropping pistils and eventually it split open to show a goldening seedshell instead of them. Phew, I can really go on I see. Damn Phoenix Haze