Female Marijuana Seeds

Begginners and inexperienced growers always have a hard time differentiating a male from a female marijuana plant. It can be tricky but it’s something you need to learn at the soonest possible time. So, not unless you’re cross-breeding or breeding marijuana, there shouldn’t be any male plants in your growing space. These days, experienced growers prefer feminized cannabis seeds to ensure higher yields and a 99.9% production of female marijuana seeds.

Since even a single male plant can ruin most of your expected yield, buying the usual cannabis seeds will prove to be more costly in the long run. By keeping a male marijuana plant with your female plants, the male can pollenate your female flowers. Once this happens and the female bud produces seeds, the plant may be full of such seeds but it is already less potent. This is the very reason why you need to get rid of your male plant in your grow room immediately.

To distinguish a female marijuana plant from a male plant, females have clusters of flowers. These colas or buds are present only on hermaphrodite or female plants. “Hermaphrodite” is a term given to plants that are part female and part male. However, sensemilla buds (un-pollenized female plants that doens’t have seeds) are produced only through pure female plants.

Marijuana female plants that are placed in constant light oftentimes show some pre-flowers even after a few weeks of growth. Hence, a change in this light cycle can make these plants grow into its full reproductive mode – producing either male or famale marijuana seeds. Then again, if you think you’ve found a good female plant, which you intend to keep, make sure you place it under constant light. This will stop the plant from flowering. You can then make it into the “mother plant” you can get cuttings from whenever you want to.

For some varieties of marijuana plants, they may need about twelve hours of darkness every day in order to induce the plant’s flowering cycles.

In the early stages, female marijuana flowers look similar to little furry hairs. They’re usually white but they can also showcase other colors. As for male flowers, they look similar to small bunches of green bananas. You’ll see them emerging near the leaf joints.

Pure female marijuana plants also have the tendency to become a hermaphrodite or male plant. This is usually a result of over stress due to bad treatment or an application of male-flowering chemicals.

The most typical feature of male plants is that they’re tall, they have stout stems, a few leaves and sporadic branching. They’re generally harvested - not unless they’re used for breeding. To harvest them, cut them off by the base but be very careful in doing so if they’re very close to the females. Try to shake them as little as possible to prevent accidental pollination.