HYB: help - freezing pollen
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  • Subject: HYB: help - freezing pollen
  • From: L* M* <l*@lock-net.com>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:54:05 -0500
I've asked for help on this before, but for some reason, never have had any success with frozen pollen, so either there is something I'm missing, the fall pollen I've collected just hasn't been any good, or my freezer isn't keeping it cold enough. Or the plants I've tried to use it on just weren't receptive. 

So, one more time.

I collect fresh, fertile looking fluffy pollen.
Store it for a day in low humidity room temperature to dry it out some, under a light bulb, on the unsticky part of a post-it note. 

Is 24 hrs about right or should it dry longer or less?
Fold the post-it into a little envelope, stuck shut, and with a plastic paper clip just to make sure it doesn't unfold, put in a sealed baggie or plastic tub full of powdered milk or other desiccant, then store it in the (self-defrosting) freezer until needed. 

Right?

Thanks in advance for any advice/comments.

Linda Mann east TN USA zone 7

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