{"id":394,"date":"2010-09-16T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.wordpress.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2010-09-16T22:05:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T05:05:11","slug":"nerdy-pollen-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2010\/09\/nerdy-pollen-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerdy Pollen Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hope everyone found Brook Garcia’s pollination tutorial<\/a> helpful! I sure did!\u00a0 Again, everyone has their own methods and variations on how to pollinate. My suggestion is — do whatever works best for you! Don’t be afraid to try new things.\u00a0 Anyway, so in 2009 when I wanted to store the pollen to create crosses with plants that don’t bloom at the same time, I figured I could store pollen in little containers that were available at a local craft store.\u00a0 I didn’t really want to keep the pollen on a q-tip as I wanted to be able to spread that pollen around to more plants. Saving the pollen in the container would allow me a little bit more control. So being the uber plant nerd I am — I stored the pollen.\u00a0 Actually, it was fellow grower and friend Jacob Farin<\/a> who called me a Sarracenia nerd when he saw what I was doing. (OK, yes, I am a Sarracenia nerd<\/em>. I admit. And I’m PROUD!! YEAH!!)<\/p>\n

Yes, that is correct. I stored the pollen.
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In little pollen containers. <\/em><\/p>\n

In a pollen case. <\/em><\/p>\n

In the pollen storage section of my fridge. <\/em><\/p>\n

Next to the bacon. You MUST store it next to bacon. If you didn’t know, pollen storage next to bacon actually keeps it viable longer.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Actually — the fridge keeps the pollen viable longer, not the bacon. But yes, eat bacon. It is good for you.)<\/p>\n

You can’t really see it in the photo, but I did tag those cases so I knew what pollen was being used. Good record keeping is key, and organization is a good practice.<\/p>\n

When it came time for the pod parent to open up and bloom –\u00a0 I just simply took my uber-nerdy pollen case and my even more super uber-nerdy pollen brushes and pollinated away!\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s a photo from April 2009 of my “Sarracenia Pollen Palette”.<\/p>\n

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\"Sarracenia[A Sarracenia Pollen Palette. It’s nerdy. But it works.]<\/p>\n

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Hope everyone found Brook Garcia’s pollination tutorial helpful! I sure did!\u00a0 Again, everyone has their own methods and variations on how to pollinate. My suggestion is — do whatever works best for you! Don’t be afraid to try new things.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,23,31,53,54,61,73,74,102,104,117,118,120,130,139,174],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-addiction","tag-carnivorous-plant","tag-create","tag-friggin-cool-stuff","tag-garden","tag-growing-from-seed","tag-hybrid","tag-hybridization","tag-north-american-pitcher-plant","tag-obsession","tag-pollen","tag-pollen-storage","tag-pollination","tag-sarracenia","tag-sarracenia-hybrid","tag-the-pitcher-plant-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}