Place pollen sacks in one jar, then screw the collection jar onto the other side of the lids, then turn so that flowers are in top jar, and just give it a gentle tap every now and then.
I’m assuming that since the ones I see advertised are usually 100microns, that pollen will fit through the screen.
place branch with pollen pods in a jar, screw lid on, screw clean jar on other side of the lid, turn up so that branches are in the top jar.
Pollen gets released from pods and drifts down through the screen to the collection jar. Leaves all the pod stuff up top, pure pollen down below.
What about a large round fish bowl with some kind of water apparatus adhered to the side of the inside of it and that screen as the top opening of the bowl (to then be flipped over)
also vibrating toothbrush’s are your friend when trying to get pollen out of males
Really handy train of thought here. How about the male(s) cuts held in these ,that are in turn glued upright to the bottom of the one side. The only concern would be any water leakage is gonna wreck your collected pollen, once inverted.
My last pollen collection exercise I ran a bit of an experiment.
I had 3 branches. Left on leaning in the glass of water, just laid the other two down on the parchment paper.
I think as the 2 that were out of water dried out, their pollen flowers opened up as they dried, so still got the pollen.
Will know for sure later on when I reverse some more plants that I started last week, but that’s 2mos out. So if anyone else gives this a shot, let us know how it worked.
Looks good @Lobstah
I like the idea of the pollen going from 1 jar to the other and not flying around everywhere, although I can imagine some pollen getting stuck to the inside of the first jar.
Another good way to keep pollen from flying around when collecting is using a small clear rubbermaid lined with some parchment paper on the bottom, and having a cutout on one side big enough to slide a branch or 2 down and close the lid and give it a good shake.From there I scrape the parchment with a card and use a mesh strainer to filter it.
Yep…I looked at those…but wanted something bigger. Looked at the “boxes”…but they were getting up around $50-100ea.
That’s when I looked at screens. I have tons of canning jars, so figured I’d give it a shot. I can put a lof of flowers in a big, wide-mouth mason jar.
