Question on Males

[CYRAX]

Put it in the Lounge cuz questions everywhere else get ignored usualy...

i understand that males can pollinate females and make them grow seedy buds...

but do males grow seedy buds as well?... or do they not grow anything besides leaves?...

Thanks..

CYRAX Reviewed by CYRAX on 02-23-2006. Question on Males Put it in the Lounge cuz questions everywhere else get ignored usualy... i understand that males can pollinate females and make them grow seedy buds... but do males grow seedy buds as well?... or do they not grow anything besides leaves?... Thanks.. Rating: 5

[welshkillabee]

Leaves and pollen sacks!

[endo..jay]

Males are often, but not always, tall with stout stems, sporadic branching, and few leaves. Males are usually harvested except those used for breeding, after their sex has been determined, but before the pollen is shed. When harvesting, especially if close to females, cut the plant off at the base, taking care to shake the male as little as possible. This helps prevent any accidental pollination by an unnoticed, open male flower.

When a male enters the stage of flower development, the tips of the branches where a bud would develop will start to grow what looks like a little bud (little balls) but it will have no white hairs coming out of it. Females will have no balls and will have small white hairs.

[CYRAX]

hmm ok thanks, im thinking about growing out my males and stocking up with seeds, do females have seeds in their buds if they havent been pollinated, or is there no seeds at all??

[endo..jay]

fems with absolutly no male influence will produce no seeds...you need a male to pollinate the fem if you do this you willl have plenty of seeds

[CYRAX]

i think thats what im gonna do, cuz i still get seeds for more grows, and i still get buds....

can i make my own strain if i pollenate a different type of female then the male strain?

[Nochowderforyou]

i think thats what im gonna do, cuz i still get seeds for more grows, and i still get buds....

can i make my own strain if i pollenate a different type of female then the male strain?

You're on the right track. :thumbsup:

Yes, you can take a female strain, and a male of another strain, pollinate the female, and the seeds you end up with will be that cross of the 2 strains, thus, creating a new strain. Cool huh.

A female plant alone doesn't produce seeds. You may get a few hear and there, but usually 99% of the time, they are just a casing and no good. Females only produce smokeable buds.

Males alone do not produce buds, they produce pollen sacks that contain no THC, or very little THC, but not recommended for smoking.

And, as you know now, if a male blows his pollen on a female, you will get seeded buds. As I explained before, you can cross 2 diff. strains quite easily.

Good luck.

[CYRAX]

thanks alot, thats everything i wanted to know, im gonna cross a white widow male with a white rhino female, must be some potent shit.

[Nochowderforyou]

I crossed a Big Blue female with a Strawberry Cough male, and ended up with a very potent smoke. Plus, I have at least 4 dozen beans of it left.

I'd cross White Widow with AK-47 or something. Isn't White Rhino just a cross of White Widow anyways? I don't know much about the Rhino, so forgive me if it sounds silly.

[friendowl]

i hate seed in my bud
i would keep all males/hermies away
pollen is no joke when the wind blows the pollen goes everywhere.
a lil can fuck up your whole crop.
i would recommend just growing girls and clones