Shovel, Ranger, I totally agree! I really don't think there's any reason to hang them up, but... *sigh* HE thinks he should. Apparently when he was younger and smoking for fun, he and his friends would always smoke one friend's dad's males (grew a lot in his attic apparently, and had a huge can of pollen - which is another reason we're keeping one boy so husband can start his own pollen collection). Yeah. Sure. Whatever.

So far I've chopped down 7 completely.

Two fairly obvious males I "topped" again and have fruit around them JUST to experiment. I'm going to see if it will rebud with female flowers. It's been made fairly short, and I'll LST it if needed, but I'll hide it in the outdoor garden around a forest of roses, raspberries, lilies, and glads IF it rebuds with female flowers. It will stay outside so any pollen released (if it does) won't affect the females. We'll see what happens.

1 is likely male, but I'm still unsure so better safe than sorry so it's not chopped until I see lots of balls on sticks instead of tiny baby balls in a few spots. Peach and banana in the pot to encourage.

5 are still unknown for male or female. Not enough signs yet, but should be soon. A couple show SOME signs but aren't big enough yet to be clear.

4 are FEMALES though! YAY! One has TEENY TINY hairs, so it almost was on the unknown list. But no, I saw two barely-there hairs just sticking out of a flower port.

So, to compare for my records with the pictures of who's what so far:

1 - unknown

2 - unknown

3 - unknown

4 - DEAD male

5 - likely male

6 - female - VERY small hairs on one flower

7 - unknown

8 - DEAD male

9 - DEAD male

10 - DEAD male

11 - DEAD male

12 - DEAD male

13 - female

14 - male, topped

15 - female

16 - DEAD male

17 - male, topped

18 - female!

19 - unknown


With current use, we need only about 1 ounce per 4 weeks in combination with other medications to generally help with his pain. So if we only have 4 females total, that should be plenty for when these are harvested for us to start a new crop. (before drying, that is). We'll see. But I'm REALLY happy with the current report of 4 girls. I've worked hard on these and want a good harvest! Heck, I won't be profitting from the crop other than paying that much less in medical costs for my husband (who's pretty expensive, BTW, with everything he needs let alone his cannabis treatment!). It's gonna save us a LOT of money this way. Very pleased that this should mean that we don't have to purchase more of this med possibly ever again as long as we're careful with out supply and grow cycles.