A lot of people mix with flour. But you need to make sure it's dry. Flour will absorb moisture from the air so it needs to be dried out in a warm oven prior to mixing.
I have mixed some corn starch every time except once, never had any issues. Corn starch is almost the same consistency as pollen is and it sucks the moisture form air pretty much as easily as pollen does. Rice works well, but its slow acting like silica, it does not protect from exposure to air if you open the vial etc. it only helps to suck the moisture from inside the vial and does it much slower than corn starch, simply because it has less surface area to it. Rice is a long term protection, corn starch protects from sudden moisture damage and long term.
I haven't used any from the freezer yet but I did pollinate plants prior to freezing after it was mixed with the cornstarch. I've got the seeds to show for it. But I'm sure the frozen pollen will work when I go to use it as it was dry, sealed, and then sealed again with desiccant packs.
Nobody said one was better than the other so I don't know what false claims you mean.
www.marijuanamoment.net
Interesting
Interweb BS?
OkInterweb BS?
Could you even be bothered to read the article? It's not BS. It's interesting stuff. You're response is just bizarre.
The guy using baked pollen has a PhD., is Vice President of research at the University of Lethbridge, has 150 peer reviewed publications and 10 patents. He's involved in studies that they spend millions conducting. He's using baked flour so I don't know how you can call that interweb BS.
Like I asked. Did you bake the flour before you used it? Most flour is 10 - 14% moisture. So if you didn't bake it you stored your pollen with flour that contained moisture. Using flour is not BS. Flour is used to extend pollen for other plants as well. It's use is all over the place from Universities to just about every cannabis site or forum that has a topic on storing pollen.
I'm going take guidance from someone with a background in plant biotechnolgy and a plethora of other advanced topics than some dude on the interweb as you call it. The guy is doing research on the long term storage of cannabis pollen. Not just 18 months but theoretically indefinitely.
You're free to use whatever method you wish. But to go on about people making false claims and interweb BS is ridiculous. I've provided data based on a scientifically conducted study by people much smarter than you or me with regards to this subject.
Dr. Kovalchuk’s research studies genetic and epigenetic regulation of plant responses to stress, while also developing methods for improving plant transformation. As a researcher in epigenetics, epigenomics, bioinformatics, genetic engineering, plant biotechnology, and next generation sequencing, Dr. Kovalchuk has over 150 peer reviewed publications and holds ten patents.
Vice President (Research) | University of Lethbridge
www.uleth.ca
Same thing with people that have used BAKED pollen. Nobody said rice would not work. But because you didn't follow the process for using flour correctly and were unsuccessful using it you say people are spreading false information. It's not false. Saying flour doesn't work is spreading false information.
Again your just reading
Me too. Using flour(corn starch) did not make the pollen any less viable. Pollen that i did not mix corn starch with was also viable, but i did not store it as long. I have not tested if it survived taking it off the freezer, using some of the pollen and putting it back. Im sure some of the spores have survived and it can still pollinate.