Neighboring trees pollen

[Gee]

I live with neighboring apartments behind my fence. There are eucalyptus trees and pine trees lining up the fences to make for privacy, but this morning I went outside and it was snowing orange pollen from one of those two trees. I looked on my porch and it look like find sawdust from Redwood. I’m gonna Wash the buds, but I’m assuming that pollen is going to stick to the trichomes?????

The trees are like four stories high, there’s nothing I can do unless I grow inside. Have any of you run into something like this and does it ruin the flavor of the smoke?.

 

[RichieRich6988]

Not sure if it wil ruin the taste but what you can do is put fine netting or even Cheese cloth in a small tent like composition. that will filter out all the pollen and still let enough light through if you are in flower stage.

 

[Old Salt]

Pollen varies in size from 15μm to 200 μm. Eucalyptus pollen grains are usually 20-24μm or 0.0000008" - 0.000001" in size. I don't think they make netting of a fine enough mesh to keep the pollen out, and let enough sunlight in for a successful grow. You might want to try a greenhouse with positive pressure provided by a blower with a sufficiently fine filter.

I think @SweetSue is an Australia. She may have a better idea.

 

[Virgin Ground]

Pollen varies in size from 15μm to 200 μm. Eucalyptus pollen grains are usually 20-24μm or 0.0000008" - 0.000001" in size. I don't think they make netting of a fine enough mesh to keep the pollen out, and let enough sunlight in for a successful grow. You might want to try a greenhouse with positive pressure provided by a blower with a sufficiently fine filter.

I think @SweetSue is an Australia. She may have a better idea.

I thought Sue is Gulf Coast. Unless she moved again...
@Amy Gardner is from Australia.

 

[TorturedSoul]

I think SweetSue is an Australia. She may have a better idea.

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There are "pollen-blocking" window screens available that are supposed to block at least the majority of pollen, possibly via some electrostatic means (I'm not sure). I couldn't even guess at how well such things work, or how much light they block.

 

[Amy Gardner]

I thought Sue is Gulf Coast. Unless she moved again...
@Amy Gardner is from Australia.

Just can’t tell us apart eh!? We’re that similar (honestly we’re not similar! At all. Very compatible - but not similar )

Seeing as I’m here now

I live with neighboring apartments behind my fence. There are eucalyptus trees and pine trees lining up the fences to make for privacy, but this morning I went outside and it was snowing orange pollen from one of those two trees. I looked on my porch and it look like find sawdust from Redwood. I’m gonna Wash the buds, but I’m assuming that pollen is going to stick to the trichomes?????

The trees are like four stories high, there’s nothing I can do unless I grow inside. Have any of you run into something like this and does it ruin the flavor of the smoke?.

I would not worry too much about that myself. I have all kinds of pollen from the forest i live in (eucalyptus, casuarinas, tea tree etc.) raining down on my outdoor plants regularly. I’ve never noticed anything too stuck to them and if it’s still ther after budwash I don’t taste anything. Not al all. I think you’re ok. You could wash them down a little if you want - i do that after duststorms blow through.

 

[SweetSue]

Thanks for the laughs and the lessons.

To clear the confusion, I’m on the Gulf Coast.

 

[Old Salt]

I apologize ladies. The error was mine.