True Living Organics - The Ultimate Guide to Growing All-Natural Marijuana Indoors (2012)

Pollen collection can be done using a piece of wax paper
Some freshly collected pollen with a few stray male flowers that will have to be strained out
Once the males start to flower and throw pollen (about 2 weeks after changing the photoperiod to
12 on/12 off) just shake a flower cluster gently over some wax paper or aluminum foil. A lot of
flowers will also fall into the wax paper, and I find that running the whole lot through a regular old
kitchen strainer works great because you never want anything else but pure pollen for storage, or else
mold will likely destroy it all. I let the pollen sit out in the dry air for about two days (out of any real
heat or direct light—or wind!) before using a funnel to pour it into my little storage containers.
All Natural Germinating Road Rules
Germinating in TLO growing is just like germinating in any all-natural growing dynamic. Make sure
there are no synthetic nutrients involved whatsoever! If you are one of those people that likes to
germinate in wet paper towels, more power to you. I like to sow the seeds directly into soil mix in
germinating flats. To do this, just keep them pretty shallow, and don’t plant them deeper than about ½
an inch or so and all should be well. If you go with the moistened paper towel method, make sure
your paper towels are not too wet, but also that they don’t get too dry. I would always use something
other than distilled or reverse osmosis water, due to the fact that when the little roots poke out, they
can actually find uses for the small amounts of dissolved minerals in the water. Germinating them in
paper towels using distilled or reverse osmosis water causes their roots to find zero nutrient sources
upon making their appearance in the world. This does not make for a super naturally happy sprout,
and that’s how we want them from start to finish in TLO: super naturally happy!