Hi all!
I am prepping to get some pollen from my upcoming LA Confidential plants. This is not happening for a month or so. Trying to get some groundwork and research first.
I have searched OG and Google. I am finding conflicting advice to sift through. What I am gathering is that pollen, especially from Indica varieties, is wet and needs to be dried first. Adding baked flour in a roughly 1:4 ratio will help spread it out as well as drying it.
This flour/pollen mixture should be collected, placed in vials, and then in a thermos in the freezer. Only remove and thaw what is going to be needed for the breeding project.
Flowers that are 2 or 3 weeks old should be fertilized, especially in an Indica variety since they are much faster flowering than Sativas and this will give the seeds time to ripen.
Am I on the right track here? Should the pollen be dried before adding the flour? It is going to be summer still when my fist batch is collected. I am worried it won’t dry fast enough because of the humidity. I have only done this once before (storage) and it failed miserably.
I am planning on using the tiny vials I asked about earlier this week. The plastic ones that many breeders ship seeds in, with caps. Are these moisture-proof enough? Here is a pic:
Thank you all so much!