Blue silica gel MSDS: http://catalog.adcoa.net/Asset/… Walmart and several nationwide crafts store chains still carry it for flower drying in the US. I simply use the food dehydrator these days. Mark Mazer Hertford, NC USDA 8a On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:34 PM, L. Cortopassi - G. Corazza < cortocora@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >