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 dodeski
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 Need help with a bug ID Microscopy pics   1
#716862 - 02/22/14 01:15 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Entomology is not my forte. We grew a male for pollination this last year . We harvested the branches and dried them in a paper bag to let them finish maturing safely away from the ladies. It's been several months now and we finally moved the pollen to glass vials.
Bad form, I know. No mold issues, but we noticed a couple microscopic bugs crawling around when pollinating some branches. I am here in hopes to ID what we may have introduces into our room. All pics taken at 40x
  
Edited by dodeski (02/22/14 01:17 AM)
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 Hawksresurrection
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Re: Need help with a bug ID Microscopy pics [Re: dodeski]
#716865 - 02/22/14 01:39 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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No clue what that is. But I'm pretty sure the pollen isn't really viable that long.
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dodeski
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Re: Need help with a bug ID Microscopy pics [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#716869 - 02/22/14 02:32 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm not saying that pollen won't degrade within a few days, but there are accounts of it being viable for a period of time after harvest.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=228252
Quoted from link above
"Pollen stored using these principles has allowed breeders to store pollen for up to 17 years and still remain viable. I suspect it would last longer still, but these are the results we currently have to work with."
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=86875
Edited by dodeski (02/22/14 02:40 AM)
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Hawksresurrection
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Re: Need help with a bug ID Microscopy pics [Re: dodeski]
#716870 - 02/22/14 02:59 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow. I just heard it didn't really last that long. But I don't handle it much. Magash might be able to chime in on this one. He's our resident breeder.
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dodeski
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Re: Need help with a bug ID Microscopy pics [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#716872 - 02/22/14 03:07 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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I have been scouring the interwebs and may have come up with an ID actually.
It may be in the order of Psocoptera, family Liposcelididae (Book Lice). I am not %100 percent on that though.
As far as the viability of the pollen, if I remember I will bump in a few weeks with an update.
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Hawksresurrection
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Re: Need help with a bug ID Microscopy pics [Re: dodeski]
#716873 - 02/22/14 03:13 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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It does look like a louse.
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Magash
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Re: Need help with a bug ID Microscopy pics [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#717037 - 02/22/14 07:02 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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It is like lice and it likes the pollen. The bugs themselves aren't much of a problem till they shit in your pollen and the pollen starts to mold.
Now as far a pollen storage for months without putting in a fridge. Good luck with that.
Read the post by Chimera and a few others like High Country but don't take much from the others to seriously. ICMag is a great place for information but there is just as much bad info there.
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dodeski
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Re: Need help with a bug ID Microscopy pics [Re: Magash]
#722956 - 03/23/14 06:50 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Just an update on the pollination, it seems to have been successful. Pollinated a few buds on several different plants staged out a week apart in bloom. 1st specimen was pollinated at 6 weeks in. It produced 6 medium sized seeds in the zoned area that seem viable.
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