New to growing!! PLEASE HELP?! Questions about male/female and harvesting!

Hi guys!! I am totally new to this stuff.

Anyhow, I don't understand something. Do you want the males and females to "mate" or not? It sounds as if you should get rid of the males as soon as you notice that they are males right? Will the females still produce big THC filled buds without the males? What happens when the males pollinate the females? Can someone explain this in depth for me please?

Also, when you pick the buds, do you just let the whole bud dry or what? What about the seeds and everything?

Thanks for the help!!

 

buddy, get rid of males, pollinated females will result in a hermafrodite(sp?), it will produce both genders, underdeveloped buds and loaded with seeds. An Unpollinated female is called Sinsimilla(sp?), it produces buds with THC, quality is depended on how good the grower grows it. And what lights are you using?

 

What? Shut the fuck up, please. Second or third post I saw open with "buddy," and continue into something stupid. You'd get the fuckin taste slapped out of your mouth talking to some people like that, get a clue.

Pollinated females result in SEEDED buds. Hermaphrodites are caused by bad genetics, stress, or being UNPOLLINATED for too long, which causes the female to panic and produce male flowers to seed itself. It's a mechanism for self-propagation so that the species will not die out because there are no males around.

 

I ment buddy as in friend and tried to help him out, your an asshole my friend. Not to mention you are in alot of posts lately. But its ok I understand your just a loose ****. You could of corrected me nicely instead of bitchin off like your on your rag.

 

I find that a little hard to believe bro, sorry, considering every time I've ever heard someone open up their dialogue with "buddy," there is either a verbal argument or physical confrontation. But, you're from canada, anything's possible with you canucks. Sorry if you were sincerely addressing him as a friend, just never hear people talk like that in a friendly manner.

 

Yup sure did, down here when we wanna fight we dont go off bein assholes we jus walk up and start up an argument until one of em flips out lol.

 

o ok, my b dude. Is it true that the cops don't even come to do shit unless a shitload of people are being bothered?

 

Depends on what your doing I guess. People down here ussually dont care if someones fighting on the street unless its in a public place with alot of ppl like a bus transit or infront of a store or sumthin.

 

So then from what you guys have said if I wanted buds that are seedless I should kill off the males/ not fertalize the female flowers right?

Or are you always supposed to fertalize your females? If you dont fertalize them then will they get stressed out and go all crazy like 2cesarewild said? Isnt that a "catch 22"?

I am so confused...

Oh and on other dumbass question. This whole male female thing, do you only get one type per plant? or per flower? Do you get males and females from seeds in one bud?

 

not to sure now. My friend has 1 plant growing female and had no other plants and it has alot of buds on it, hes growing it under HPS light. I figured when the males pollinate they seed the plant and you dont want that. I am really confused now lol.

 

If you want seeds then keep males and females together,otherwise toss the males for seedless buds.The male serves one and only one purpose and that is to pollinate the female for the making of seeds.

 

I think you need to read a little bit more about the basic structure of the plant. www.overgrow.com has everything you need.

 

thats all anybody has every told me.

 

As soon as you can differentiate between male & female, remove the males. (the ones with the balls!). As with most males in nature, they're only good for natural propagation. They pollinate the females, the females work on producing seed not resins and you loose your 'sense and end up with 'schwag'.
Besides, with clones, you don't even need the males any more!

 

Hi, I'm new to growing seeds as I normally grow northern lights from clones. 6 weeks ago I planted 10 AK48 seeds and all are now 9in tall with 4 sets of leaves so I have put them to flower to deternine which are male or females. But I am not sure how to do this. PLEASE help with advice. Thanks

 

You can't tell sex until the plants begin to flower.
Inside, that's 1--3 weeks after you induce flowering (lights at 12/12); outside it's late Aug./early Sept.
Males express first, sometimes in as little as 2 days, by growing "balls" (pollen sacs). Males indicate within the 1st 2 weeks. Over the next week buds start to form on the females.
Ditch the males as soon as they indicate sex (before they shed pollen).

 

hi im new to this game and after planting 5 feminised seeds and after the 2 week switch to flowering noticed 4 of the plants had the little clusters of balls and one did not. been feminised seeds and not been very knowledgable i pulled the one plant out without the clusters. i now am not sure if the 4 plants i have are male as they have dried out and dropped dust prob pollen everywhere coating leaves. when you blow them it is a cloud of grren dust, is this what happens with male plants they seem to have dropped the dust and then fall to the floor.as anybody any pics of male plants about 2-3 weeks before what with females would be harvest.

 

When you switch your lights to 12/12 the plants will begin to flower. The male plants will most likely show their "flowers" first. Usually the first week or two. The males will have balls in the nodes. The females will flower a little later than the males. The females have white hairs in the nodes. As soon as the male plants appear you need to remove them immediately. If you don't your female buds will be mostly seed which is not desirable. By not allowing the female to become pollenated your female buds will use there energy to produce false seed pods filled with resin or THC instead of seeds. This will not only produce more smokable bud but it will also increase your potency. Some people choose to allow the male to pollenate the female purely for seed production...that is, if you don't want to have to buy seeds, you simply grow them. However the best option in that case would be to clone from the mother plant. The male plants need to go.

 

wow really??

 

You have a couple of options here......I personally elimate any males out of the room as soon as they show being a male or you can take the males out of the grow room and place it/them in another room and collect the pollen then use the pollen to get some seeds from a branch or two if u want, rather than the pollen getting blown around by the wind you take it in the grow room with the fans off and put it on the buds of ur choice, the buds that u pollinated will have seeds.......And if you elimate the males your females will still produce dank buds if grown correctly......When a male pollinates a female it is just like humans they produce offspring(seeds)....as far as picking and curing do a google search or buy a book, too much to type online searches will have all this info u just asked about in depth, more than i want to type. it is not hard to find this info online just do a search. Hope this helps!!!