Re: HYB: Pollen storage -- fridge or freeze?
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Pollen storage -- fridge or freeze?
- From: I* I*
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:22:39 +0930
I've never bothered to freeze pollen,I just keep it in small tubes in a
sealed container in the fridge. The container also has milk powder in it as
a desicant. I never blow on my pollen to puff it up, I just don't harvest
it until it is puffy, then I pick the the whole stamens and put in a
labelled tube. My pollen keeps from one season til the next. I've just been
harvesting Bountiful Harvest pollen (rebloom) for use in Oct
Colleen Modra
South Aust
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From: arilbredbreeder@cs.com <arilbredbreeder@cs.com>
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Pollen storage -- fridge or freeze?
>In a message dated 5/8/01 8:26:41 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
>patriciabrooks@coupeville.net writes:
>
><< HYB pro's:
>
> I've begun to take pollen from these early-bloomers (SDBs and early
> TBs) to make crosses with on later-blooming TBs; and in reviewing my
> i-t notes on pollen storage, some say hold in the refrigerator, some
> say the freezer. Both, I gather, should then be 'heated' to puff up
> the pollen by blowing on them. Anybody want to line up on one side
> or the other in this mini-poll? >>
>
>Nope -- because I've found that different techniques are best for different
>purposes.
>
>I start by storing the harvested pollen in open containers at room
>temperature, because it needs to be dried before going into storage. This
>has proven more effective for fresh flowers.
>
>Once dried, pollen that is to be saved only a few weeks for use later in
the
>season goes into the refrigerator. In condiment cups, so it doesn't absorb
>moisture.
>
>Pollen that is to be saved for the next year goes in the freezer. Still in
>condiment cups, but with the cups sealed in Tupperware.
>
>Yes, I've gone so far as to transfer leftover pollen from the refrigerator
to
>the freezer at the end of the season and used it successfully in later
years.
>
>
>Sharon McAllister
>
>
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