It works to absorb moisture in the pollen in storage.
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Sorry, had to 
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I’m curious… I know that you can pollinate pre flowers if you only want a couple seeds and that a seeded plant can be reverted to veg hours. So can you get seeds without ever leaving veg? Pollinate the pre flowers and just leave in in 18/6, or does it need to go to flower to start the seeds and then reveg?
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@Badger could you break down your set up please. Seems like a great starter set up for me to build. For interested. TIA
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I’ve read about that and yes you can! If it’s got white hairs on the preflowers, the pollen will take.
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No kidding???
First I’ve heard of that-
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Well I only do female plants so it’s kinda same as males
I pick the pollen sacks off with a pair of eyebrow tweezers set them on some paper and leave it to sit on top of the grow tent for a day
Then I use the fine mesh part of my grinder to rock the pollen sacks on,you want to rub them nice and easy you don’t want the pollen sack as well in your mix
Then I just collect the pollen from the bottom of the grinder
Seen this on a YouTube video couple of years ago lol
It works well,then I just dust the ladies with a cotton earbud it’s handy if you’re a small time grower like me,it would be a pain in the ass if. You had a load of plants to do this on,I only grow 5-6 plants at a time,but this is good if you want to do female pollen,
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I did this tonight… Dusted my female vegging Plant pre flower pistols and she stay in veg for atleast 30 more days.
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Hey @anon98660487 I like your pollen collection idea, I’m gonna do excatly that.
Previously I would pluck off the pollen pods (usually after 1 opened and pollinated the while tent) placed them in a glass jar for several days and try to dry sift the pollen out. It’s messy and doesn’t work well enough.
So thanks for sharing your method.
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Yes, I can confirm. I documented this on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKadEEqRUN80VCYw9ERAfQhosq3zcqxuV
Removed a flowering branch, put in jiffy puck, and went to the male to dust it. Rooted it while it ripened 2 seeds inside the humidity dome.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Whatevers and Don’t Knows…you have just received a free, free… free, free, free Lesson of the Day!!! Appreciate the wisdom in your midst, please. Class dismissed for now!! SS/BW…mister 
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Why would you want it to absorb moisture its mixed in with your pollens and they’ll absorb it to if any in there.
The flour is added so there’s not a big concentration of pollen going in one spot.
Makes it go further.
I dont advise the pollen in with the flour til you get ready to use the pollen then mix it in if you need.
I ill advise any of this.
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This^^^^^ It works really well. Seal your pollen, and a closet desiccator in the gasket box with a humidity gauge, and you’re good.
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It’s just a rectangle plastic container, gun safe dehumidifier from academy (plug in to recharge), and a white glass cup I stole from my wife. After I collect on the butcher paper, I tap the pollen into the glass to dry for a few days.
I was told to put the flour into the oven for a bit on a low temp to dehydrate it also. I think it was 250 for 20 minutes or something like that.
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Cook your flour, but before you mix it, put it in the box with the pollen and the dehumidifier for a couple of days. If there’s any residual moisture left that’ll take care of it.
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I actually did that, but thanks for adding that here buddy! I mixed it, then left for a couple days.
We will see soon how it worked.
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I am literally running this experiment. I started it today!
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I can’t believe there wasn’t more (some?) innuendo in this thread.
Never mind. Started writing something out and when I got to the sonicare toothbrush it all felt way too wrong 
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Me too I got a male here to practice with. I have been research but the search does work like I’m used to.
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