Hi, just try to open the canisters after they fully reached the room temperature, otherwise humidity condensation will moist the pollen. Gianluca Corazza, Italy, Z9 2016-05-13 19:19 GMT+02:00 Garak <garak@code-garak.de>: > Hi James, > > thank you for this page of valuable information. One little comment: You > recommend blue silica gel to dry pollen. this uses Cobalt(II) chloride as > humidity indicator, which was identified as highly carcinogenic in recent > years. It (hopefully) should be difficult to obtain now and I strongly > recommend anyone to give any remaining leftovers of blue silica gel to a > professional disposal service, as there are several non-toxic alternatives. > > -- > Martin > ---------------------------------------------- > Southern Germany > Likely zone 7a > > > > Am 13.05.2016 um 18:44 schrieb James SHIELDS: > >> I put this page together years back on storing pollen: >> >> http://www.shieldsgardens.com/info/Pollen.html >> >> -- Jim >> >> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Michael Mace <michaelcmace@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >