male plants

[stinkyattic]

Males are useless unless you want to breed.
There's not enough resin to bother with hash really unless you have an exceptional male, in which case, send him over here so I can breed him! A resinated male IMO is far more valuable than all the mothers in my garden.

[Volker]

Males are useless unless you want to breed.

I'd recommend letting it continue to flower and pollute all the ladies in the room, then smoke the expended pollen sacks for a taste treat you'll never forget. (you'll be able to taste the boy parts in hermie buds forever after)

And yes. I, too, am always on the lookout for a resinatin male. Years of searching, and I still haven't found one...

[staple123]

smoke the resident pollen sacks?

you mean cut off those acorn shaped--oval shaped pods and dry them out, crush them powder and smoke them? at what point in flowering..at what week?

what does that taste like and why bother since the THC is less than 1% anyway compared to a female which is anywhere from 7-20% depending on the strain.

[stinkyattic]

Ewww. That sounds a bit unpleasant.

Oh BTW Volker I was going through my male collection again last night with a magnifying glass and DID find a few trichs on one of the dudes... but not enough really to get all hot and bothered about unfortunately.

[Storm Crow]

Why don't we put it this way- Male plants can have THC, but they are far lower in THC than their sisters. Males from a good strain are usually (what is the term?) a low grade schwag(?) and if you got bud, why bother? Since Stinky found the trichs, we can dispense with the "Males have absolutely no trichs" myth. I've seen them, too and used them to decide which of 2 males to save the pollen from (other was smoked immediately, since we were in early bud with the girls and out of stash- mites got in the previous grow = low yeild I know, I'm a barbarian for smoking males, but any port in the storm!). Even at that stage, the girls looked better. Males can make a reasonable emergency stash, if you can grow them somewhere where they won't cause mischief. I heard a dude say (rather crudely, so I'll clean it up) that trichs on cannabis are like breasts on humans. Both have them, but on females, they are bigger and better. Trichs on a male are counter-productive. Trichs are sticky. Pollen should not be stuck to the male plant- it needs to float free to a nice, sticky, female plant. Any male that has trichs has a good chance of carrying a nice genetic package for heavier trich production. With a few generations of selective breeding, Stinky, you may have a winner! Keep checking those males for trichs!

[stinkyattic]

DAMN it STILL won't let me give you more rep! pooey.

[MisterE]

lol I love it. Like breasts on humans

[doco]

lol I love it. Like breasts on humans

Huh?

[Volker]

smoke the resident pollen sacks?

you mean cut off those acorn shaped--oval shaped pods and dry them out, crush them powder and smoke them? at what point in flowering..at what week?

what does that taste like and why bother since the THC is less than 1% anyway compared to a female which is anywhere from 7-20% depending on the strain.

I was being silly!

[growinforthefuture]

all of my plants were loaded with trichs, and lots of them are males, they are super silver haze though, so what can you expect question: what shold I do with all thes males..


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