Pollen Drying and Storing

[Gpaw]

For medium or long term storage you need to really dry out the pollen.

This worked.

(complete) OGer, the Encore

Pollen Collection and Storage Let me start with this. Humidity/moisture is ‘pollen kryptonite’. It sounds ‘dramatic’ but this gives us a valuable tool for pollen handling and ‘decontamination’. To implement this, a ‘dollar store’ sprayer set to misting and plain water takes care of that job - superbly. [DSCN2955 (2)] Researching the ‘interwebs’ led to studies going back to the 1950’s discussing pollen storage & preservation. These studies had a common thread circling around humidity and te…

I’ve got some ‘tucked away’ to test at the 1 year mark.

Cheers
G