Male pollen room set up ideas?

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Hi guys so my problem at the moment is I have found 2 males of different varieties and I would like to collect some pollen off of both of them to start some projects just after some knowledge off you breeders out there on setting up a tent/box/room whatever for each male keeping contamination too a minimum aswell as not pollinating the wrong room if that makes sense :slight_smile:

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A 2x2 is plenty for each male. They dont need much light. Use a filter on any ventilation. Avoid a fan pointing at canopy.Keep a mist bottle or two filled at all times. Honestly i am way to anal about my procedures then I need to be. I will take showers and change clothes after dealing with males that are dumping. where gloves, spray the air coming in and out of the room I am keeping the male.
With two males in the same house i would expect the possibility of cross contamination.
If you put plants pollinated from differnt males in a tent with non pollinated plants. I would assume all plants would have some seeds from pollen drift.

I chop the males and only let certain clusters make it to maturity. I have found kiff or pollen boxes work great for collecting pollen sacs .

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Thanks do I need certain kind of filter in place of the carbon or just a sock enough

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Wut @PsillyRabbit said :arrow_heading_up: +1ā€¦
Heavy with the mister spray bottle, itā€™s pollen Kryptonite.

If you are using the pollen immediately, have at it!
If you are keeping pollen for later you need to dry it out
(unless you live in a desert)

What works well (for me and others) is those cheap gasketed ammo boxes and reusable desiccant packs for a couple days.
Then vacuum seal (food saver style) bags.
(I have a long running experiment testing viability, 2+yrs)

Knowing how to collect, store and use pollen is a seriously powerful tool.

Cheers
G

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Yes will be looking at storing it I have found a lot of info on that side of things itā€™s just hard finding how to safely keep the male long enough to drop to collect it without the answers being ā€œno you canā€™t keep in the same houseā€ lol

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Yeah, thatā€™s the ā€˜safeā€™ answerā€¦ :smile:

Isolated air flow is really important. I had a spare bedroom I could use so I prepped the room by bagging the air vents and plastic drop sheets. Keeping the air ā€˜dead stillā€™ and heavy misting keeps the cross contamination to a minimum.
ā€¦I used the same room for selective crosses laterā€¦ :smile:
Iā€™m sure there was ā€˜someā€™ cross contamination, but if I can control the environment well enough to keep it to maybe 1 in 1K?..
ā€¦ā€œgood enough for the girls I go withā€ :+1: :laughing:

Cheers
G

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Yeahā€¦Iā€™d have to be on this side of things myself.

Attempting two pollen projects in the same household is sketchy at best. :grimacing:
Even with the best cross-contamination prevention measures, Iā€™d still wonder.
So I donā€™t do it.

Tough situation my guy.

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Mmm sounds like I should keep it more simple and choose out of the two possibly take cuttings of the other untill I can flower it out

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