Quickie Wednesday and the last of the Candida pollen updates!
I took Stunger's advice and baked the silica balls in the toaster oven, but I went hotter and longer after doing some research online. I might have left them a bit long because they got a little toasted looking, but I plowed ahead with the plan.
Here are the vials for the pollen, a funnel because the tops of the vials are really narrow, and an extra vial to hold the leftover baked balls:
And here are the results (there are silica balls buried in there):
The final collection was really quite a haul!
One of each went into the fridge and the other two went into the freezer in case one method turns out better than the other.
That's it for me today!
Quotes:
Do you have a phone tripod that holds it still? I have a crappy phone camera it gets pixelated when on macro.
I have one but I just hand-hold everything except trichome pics. It's hard to see what's really in focus on the screen, so my macro technique is to put the camera in the macro mode and set the focus to the minimum distance. Then I move in close enough to be able to tell it's too close and start shooting pics as I slowly pull the phone back away from the subject until it's definitely out of focus again.
At that point I just enlarge each pic and delete the blurry ones until I find the best of the lot. Takes longer to explain than do!
I hope so. Some family stuff going on that threatens to disrupt my plans
Families: can't live with 'em and can't shoot 'em! Whenever you start a new grow drop a link to it in the last journal please.
What's giving you the dropsies?
I wish I knew. I think my internal clock is running a bit faster than the rest of me these days, kind of an internal frantic?
Yes ma'am! So far so good.
Hope you didn't have to pay for that bollard thingy , messed up I have never heard it called that I think around here it a Safety Post LOL
I had to pay $50 for a new reflector for the minivan, but the bollard was unscathed. I woulda
sworn those things were plastic these days to prevent car damage.
I don't think I knew what they were called until my British wife called them bollards! Turns out the other name for them is “barrier posts,” but that's more syllables.
The Purple Ghost is looking good so stop knocking it over ><>< I get those weeks/ month some time they suck , Damn Magnetic hands
It was the CapJunky I tipped over as I would
never tip over a sponsored plant.
Luckily it's doing fine and dandy!
How long on the seed maker you think ?
Today is flip day 39, and I don't really know how long the seeds will take to mature as every plant is different. The last hand pollination I did (on
that larf bit I showed) was flip day 31. I figure the plant will go at least 70 days in flower (June 1st), so that makes it almost 7 weeks for those to mature. Most folks say at least 4-5 weeks so I should be good.
At some point the seeds break out of the calyxes so we'll get a better look when they do.
