I understand many pollens are very microscopic. Trust me, I've looked at a fair amount of pollen under the microscope so I understand your dilemma. This is why a good pollen cocktail can also come in handy. By performing serial dilutions you can figure out approximately how to mix your pollens for optimal results depending on what you wish those results to be...i.e. if your goal was to bring out recessive genes you could have any species of plant as a donor/diluent mixed in to dilute. If your goal was to the original species pollen so as to bring in another species and to do so in such a manner as to keep enough of the original pollen in place so as to encourage a cross that would normally simply result in a few immature embryo's and an aborted pod..then again...this method will help you.
The basics:
1:1 mix of pure pollen/no additive pollens from any other species compatible or simicompatible.
Followed by 1:2, 1:4, 1:8, 1:16, 1:32, 1:64 dilutions all the way out till you get what you are after. Admittedly, you will have to do some experimentation here and once you have the approximate pollen dilutions figured out for your goal then you may find that you need to find a more specific range within those broad parameters listed above.

For the above. You could start out with say 0.2ml's of pollen for your 1:1 pure unmixed pollen.

Next for your 1:2...: 0.2 ml's of pollen of each species/cultivar for a total of .4ml's pollen mixed in your pollen container.

For your other dilutions: simply remove 0.2 ml's from the previous mixed pollen and put this in a new tube labeled 1:4 and place a different diluent or non-compatible pollen in the same proportion of 0.2ml's. You don't even have to use pollen as your diluent. You may chose to use diatomaceous earth for its small particles or even confectioner's sugar or powdered sugar.

I hope there are many out there having luck getting SD to go to seed, and then growing it from seed. It will be good for the species.

heres some good reading......I just knock the flower heads together....I would have zero life if I had to do it any other way

http://web.archive.org/web/200411230853 ... om/salvia/

Irie Sea Mac,
Wikkid plants.....Nuff Respect
Love to get hold of some.....sooner or later....
If it's hummingbirds you need to pollinate....I got loads
Every morning there is a big scrap outside in the Moringa Tree flowers.....about 30 birds...3 species..They get right in your face and Buzz you....
They also raise the vibrations of life...So good Kharma
Respect
Zaka

Hummers fierce little buggers. We got a couple feeders on our back porch, and the guard them jealously.