![]() How to Tell the Difference Between Male and Female Cannabis Plants Therefore, leaving you with a handful of buds chalked full of seeds. If you fail to separate them all, you will likely find that the male plants pollinated your females. And, you guessed it, this is the category cannabis falls into and why you must separate your males from females. The female actually needs its male counterpart to continue producing seed for the following year. This means that no single plant can reproduce on its own. Now, with a dioecious plant, you will find that the plant either produces all male parts or all female parts. If this were to happen, you would find one stalk with definitive male characteristics and other branches of the same plant with definitive female characteristics. Actually, it’s only been reported a few times in history and something that we’ve never personally seen. In cannabis, this is very uncommon to find. Within monoecious plants, you will find one flower has female parts, while another has male parts. However, they will not be on the same flower as they are with hermaphrodite plants. This is to ensure that seeds can drop for its survival (keep reading for more info on detecting “hermied” cannabis plants).įor this type of plant, it will form both male and female reproductive parts. When a plant gets too stressed and fears it will die, it may begin to form male reproductive parts. ![]() While this can be the genetics of the cannabis strain, it may also be an indication of the plant getting too stressed out. However, in cannabis plants, you can discover a “hermied” plant by banana looking shoots, which form on the flowers. Therefore, this plant will be able to reproduce on its own. This is a type of plant that forms both male and female parts on the same plant. While there are actually many complex forms of morphology, for the sake of keeping it simple, we’re only going to cover three of the most common ones. This is commonly referred to as the plant reproductive morphology, which is simply the study of the physical form and structure of a plant’s sexual reproduction parts. Understanding Plant Reproductive Morphologyįirst, let’s take one step back to fully grasp why we need to separate cannabis plants by male and female in the first place. By learning this simple technique, you can easily decide what you want to pollinate and what you don’t. Say you found a few seeds in a nug you were about to grind and decide to try growing them.When it comes to growing cannabis, it truly is essential that you learn the difference between male and female cannabis plants. This is why the production of feminized seeds has grown into a large market, allowing growers to know that the seeds they plant will grow into female plants. So if you pull seeds from a nug and decide to plant them, there is no guarantee as to which gender the seeds will produce. Well, regular seeds have a 50/50 chance of growing into a female or male plant. So how do we know which seeds will grow into which gender? Therefore, growers will only plant crops of female seeds if they intend to cultivate marijuana into a sellable product. Male plants can also crowd female plants, restricting the space for female plants to grow to their full yield potential. Once a female plant is fertilized, it will spend more of its energy on producing seeds rather than growing juicy THC nugs and flowers. ![]() Additionally, male plants can contaminate a crop of female plants by potentially fertilizing them. Thus, it is redundant to sell male marijuana plants as if will have minimal psychoactive effects and will not provide much of a high when consumed. Only female marijuana plants can produce potent high THC buds. Being able to distinguish between male and female marijuana plants is important for breeders and growers as the type of weed plays an important role in the value and quality of the final product that is being sold. Like most living creatures such as humans, animals, and other plants, the cannabis plant also has male and female genders and reproductive systems. ĭo weed plants have genders? What are the differences between male and female cannabis plants? Find out in this article. Read the original Article on The Green Fund. This article by Sylvia Hu was originally published on The Green Fund, and appears here with permission.
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