There are hundreds of different species of seeds, better known as genetics or cultivars. These genetics are available from various companies, known as ‘seed banks’ and a large portion of the sales of these seeds is through online stores. The quality of the cannabis seeds is important, but actual ‘quality’ is a vague concept, because it can mean the quality of the genetics, the quality of the end product, the quality of the actual plant-development etc. In this article we go into more detail about this..
What do they say? Men are from Mars and women are from Venus… Identification and separation of male and female plants is a very important aspect in the cultivation of regular cannabis seeds. If you don’t recognize the signs it could cost you your crop!
Female cannabis plants produce cannabis flowers, which are used for medical and recreational purposes. On the other hand, male cannabis has minimal amounts of active cannabis compounds (cannabinoids) and produce pollen pouches instead of flowers. Their role in cannabis plant life is only to spread that seed!
When the pollen of a male cannabis plant reaches a female (through pollination) then fertilization takes place, and the female plant will start producing seeds like crazy. The plant puts all its energy into the production of seeds (comparable with the body putting all its energy into producing a child in a pregnant woman) and not putting its energy into producing big fat buds.
So if you want to harvest cannabis BUDS instead of seeds, make sure you separate the males from the females before the males can pollinate the ladies. So, next question… How do you know if you have a male hiding out in your grow room?!
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What do they say? Men are from Mars and women are from Venus… Identification and separation of male and female plants is a very important aspect in the cultivation of regular cannabis seeds. If you don’t recognize the signs it could cost you your crop!
