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what is SINSEMILLIA?
This is taken from The Cannabis grow bible: the definative guide to growing marijuana for recreational and medical use by Greg Green and compliled with additional blurbs from growers and members of overgrow, grasscity, cannabis.com, etc.

Sinsemillia
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The female plant will produce seeds at this point is she has recieved viable pollen from a male plant. The seeds grow within the female bud and can take anywhere between 2 and 16 weeks to grow to full maturity. The female pistils may change color before finally busting the seedpods, sending them to the soil below. Breeders like to collect seeds before the seedpods burst. If, during the the flowering stage, there are no males present to pollinate the female plants, the buds will grow larger and develop more resin glands. Resin may drop down on to teh leaves making the plant very sticky. The pistils on the buds will begin to thicken and cluster into balls. The reason for the high increase in bud growth is that the female plant is trying her best to attract male pollen. This is the Sinsemillia condition.

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The male plant produces pollen sacks, which, when ripe, burst and scatter pollen to the female plants. The female plant produces white hairs at the internodes and top cola (head) of the plant during flowering. These hairs (pistils) begin to curl and slightly grow longer and thicker. The top cola should carry the most pistils. These pistils are sticky to the touch (don't touch them too much as they also contain the shought-after THC), and become covered in resin during the flowering period. The reason for their stickiness is that the pistils are used by the female to catch falling pollen. If the female isn't pollinated she'll try to grow more sticky areas. Hence the result of a sinsemillia crop... bigger and better buds.

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It is not uncommon for some strains to generate a few hermaphrodites in the final weeks of flowering. This is quite a familiar condition with sinsemillia crops as some plants, in a last ditch effort to continue their line via seed, will generate a few male flowers to try to self pollinate. In most cases the pollen produces is not viable, but as a precaution you can clip them away. Simply check your sinsemillia for small yellow banana shapes in the bud during the final weeks of flowering and clip them away.

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A non-pollinated female (sinsemillia) plant will produce more flowering buds and more quantities of THC than the male plant or seeded female plant. The buds produce resin, which contains THC and can drop down onto the leaves. When fully mature, it should produce a very pleasing high, depeinding on teh grow method, the strain, and time of harvest. It should be the goal of every cannabis cultivator to grow non-pollinated female plants because those also produce the best yeild.


Theres a ton more info. I'm just stoned and had nothing better to do at the moment than retype all that. lol