How to harvest pollen outdoors

What are some options on collecting pollen on an outdoor male? It's almost in full bloom at day 27 flower and a lot of the pollen is flying away in wind when I attempt to shake it in sandwich Baggie. Should I just chop the whole plant when all pods open and put it in plastic bag or harvest periodically? Ty

cut a branch off that has nearly open pollen sacks.
Take it home and cut the stem at a 45 degree angle again and put it in water. Make sure it gets some light. Put the stem through a small hole in paper that sits on the glass of water.

The pollen will fall on the paper. You can also shake the branch.


some people put a tiny drop of bleach in the water to kill bacteria, other put in some super thrive.

I have never done this as I collect pollen indoors, but it should work.

Hey thanks for the repy that seems to be the tried and true approach but I have no space to bring male flowers indoor to collect that way any other suggestions

Pull nearly ripe pollen sacks and jar them, if you time it just right the sacks will pop in the jars and you can save/use that pollen. Sacks will pop at different times so you have to keep checking on them to time it right. If you pull sacks too early they wont pop in the jar, grab em when they just start to split the pod. That's what I'm doing right now with my outdoor male, but he's in my garden so it's easier to check everyday, if yours is a guerilla grow it'd be harder to do but not impossible.