Pollen collecting question

I've got a beautiful Afghani male that I intend to use for making seed. My plan was to pollinate one of the three Critical Jack Herers I have going at the moment, but all three of them have turned out to be some of the ugliest, most pathetic pieces of shit I've ever had the displeasure of growing, and I now have no interest whatsoever in using them for seed. I definitely still want to use the Afghani male though, but it's going to have to wait a while.

So my question is, now that the male is flowering nicely and producing lots of sacs, what is the best way for me to harvest them without wasting anything? They're not all ripening at the same time, so I have clusters with a couple that are ready to burst and a bunch that are not. Should I cut off individual sacs as they ripen and dry and store them, or take the whole branch and try to collect pollen as it drops, even though the majority of them are not ripe? I've heard of people taking branches and keeping them in a cup of water, but do they actually continue to ripen once they've been removed from the plant?

It's going to be a good while before I use this pollen because I'm planning another seed run with my next grow, which is going to be Mr. Nice Mango Haze crossed with Blue Dream from Humboldt. I expect this to be a lengthy grow. I plan on crossing the Afghani male with a female Shit from Mr. Nice, hopefully for a fast finishing strain suitable for outdoor, but I'm unsure if the pollen will stay viable for this amount of time.

Hopefully someone with some pollen collecting experience can point me in the right direction.

when you got a load

any vagina is better than no vagina

same with plants

Lean ur plant on a 40 degree overnite

on a mirror or picture frame

in the morning scrape the pollen off to a vitamin bottle

add a teaspoon of rice and store deep in ur freezer

continue this until you have enough pollen

go the intended route see it as practice

good luck

vostok said:

when you got a load

any vagina is better than no vagina

same with plants

Lean ur plant on a 40 degree overnite

on a mirror or picture frame

in the morning scrape the pollen off to a vitamin bottle

add a teaspoon of rice and store deep in ur freezer

continue this until you have enough pollen

go the intended route see it as practice

good luck

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I'll try that. Thanks.

be careful about going from the pollen room to the flower room because if the sacks are open the pollen is in the air and it doesn't take much to make a shit load of seeds.you can also watch the sacks and just before they open pick them off with tweezers put them in a paper sack wait a couple days until they dry then do like vostoc say.

backtracker said:

be careful about going from the pollen room to the flower room because if the sacks are open the pollen is in the air and it doesn't take much to make a shit load of seeds.you can also watch the sacks and just before they open pick them off with tweezers put them in a paper sack wait a couple days until they dry then do like vostoc say.

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This is so - so true!!

I have an air lock (a hallway) between my rooms

on a table in the hall is a spray bottle fill with tap water

on each pass, either way

its important

1: to pause raise bottle

2: squirt 2-3 times above ur head

3: pause to watch droplets fall on you like chemical weapon..!

4: continue on your way

This kills out any active pollen so you don't carry the stuff on you from room to room

the addition of water on your pollen cell breaks the lock

(advice from Bella a real brain on hort science from the days of the Soviets ,..lol)

good luck