How To Save Pollen and Hand Pollinate Fruit Trees?

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Came across this publication.
Pollen Storage: high viability of pollen obtained after storage in home freezer
https://ucanr.edu/repositoryfiles/ca707p12-71852.pdf

I’m looking at it because I have 1 asian pear that will flower this year and wanted to get some pollen from a friend in a warmer zone.

Some good videos on how to collect at:

How is plum/pluot pollen collected?

Continuing the discussion from Nadia Sweet cherry x plum hybrid: I tried using a small, soft paint brush to either collect pollen on the brush or to brush it into a container held beneath the blossoms. I never saw any visible collection on the brush, and only very few of what looked like granules in the container. My vision is a long past being sharp. So, just because I don’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Is there a better way, or perhaps an optimal time of day or stage of …