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Buy, sell, or trade pollen here?

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Walt:
It is frustrating, though sometimes necessary, for breeders to grow breeding stock for years before actually making a cross.  So how about including pollen here?  I might start by suggesting that same rules should apply as for seeds, as I'm not absolutely sure that pollen can't spread virus.  I'm sure they don't spread insects, at least.
I can see that sometimes an inexperienced person might harvest unripe pollen, or not keep it dry enough.  And how to quantify the amount of pollen.
Comments?

lebmung:
How long can you keep pollen viable? One or two weeks at best if refrigerated. You need to have some good logistics to have a pollen trade here.
By the way science has advanced profoundly in the last decade for obtaining new plants. It is much more straightforward to combine DNA, mutate or even alter the DNA through Crisp. Mutated plants and humans will become a norm in the near future. You can actually buy kits online to make simple Dna fusion of the plants then see what new breed you can get. Just some thoughts  :D

Walt:
Something I think about often.
As I made plans for a 39 year breeding program, I realized that in that time, there could (will) be designer plants. 
The CRISPR process you mentioned could be applied to an F1 of P.t x citrus and delete the bad flavor genes of P.t, and delete the genes for cold damage from citrus.  I presume the deleted genes of P.t could be replaced with copies of the citrus genes.
But I decided to give the old way a try, as it is the method I know and am set up for.  I plan on wondering around on this Earth for several years yet, and I might as well do something interesting.

I'm told that citrus pollen properly dried and refridgerated will keep for a year.  I haven't tried, as I'm mostly waiting for flowers.

mikkel:
I was thinking about pollen trade too. There was a post about pollen treatment on the old forum I guess. I have a look whether I can find it.

http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com/

mikkel:
Here is one post with a link to a description how to handle it.
http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com/web/viewtopicea35.php
it is not the thread I am thinking of, I keep looking.

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