I use the pill boxes with 28 tiny compartments. Stackable, and requires little space.
Dry the anthers on slips of paper with labels, then take a toothpick to hold one end of the anther and scrape
the pollen off awhile later. Seems to dry faster for me to powder form that way. Air conditioning helps too.
Then fold the paper to form a makeshift funnel, and pour into pill boxes, labeled with tape on outside, or
sometimes with a piece of paper stuck to inside of lid for id. This year, I am going to put in fridge for
a few days, instead of freezing, unless I have some left over, then will freeze, and try it next spring.
Really depends on the bloom timing of the plants selected in the hybridizing. I am trying to stick
to 50 for pod and pollen, so I don't end up with so many again. May not cross all 50, that is just
the reserve. Keep telling self, don't look at others, just stick with the 50.
Have also laid anthers on paper on the counter, and used it the next day. Set a pod, so it worked.
I too, prefer to use fresh pollen, but sometimes, as has been mentioned before, have to save pollen.
