Can a flower and or its pollen be saved for use at a later date on a different plant of the same species?
maybe in the fridge or freezer?
saving pollen
saving pollen
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Tony
Tony
So there is no damage done by keeping it in the freezer then?parodias wrote:In the same spirit .. when about to use the pollen make sure the container and its contents are at room temperature before opening up just to avoid air condensation on your pollen .. it may ruin them .. just FWIW
I would guess this would be the driest place to store it.
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Tony
Tony
No strictly speaking it should work but the absolute compulsory condition is that the pollen should be absolutely dry ... any moisture in the pollen will freeze solid and the even microscopic ice crystals will probably punture the cell membranes which will probably make the pollen worthless when thawing ... if not frozen the pollen will/may start to "germinate" and will grow to "nowhere"Tony wrote:So there is no damage done by keeping it in the freezer then?parodias wrote:In the same spirit .. when about to use the pollen make sure the container and its contents are at room temperature before opening up just to avoid air condensation on your pollen .. it may ruin them .. just FWIW
I would guess this would be the driest place to store it.
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Re: saving pollen
I ' ve just found it. More info them in the other thread. The use of silica gel is a good idea. Has anyone tried?