Do male weed plants produce seeds? To answer the question first, you must be able to tell the plants apart. You must understand that when growing cannabis seeds, the odds are not on your side. Each seed you grow has a 50% chance that it will be male or female.

For you to tell the sexes of the plant, it will take you about four weeks after germinating to spot the male and female Cannabis. For the male, you may be able to observe a pollen scar, and for the female, you will see the stigma.

After six weeks, you can tell the male from the female Cannabis since the scar and the stigma or pre-flower will be visible. Typically, after being able to identify the male from the female. The male weed is usually separated from the female since it can pollinate the female and lead to the production of low-quality buds. The low quality of bud is due to the production of seed. This brings us to our question.

Do Male Weed Plants Produce Seed?

The male plant do not produce seeds, just pollen that when released, seeds can travel for miles and fertilize the female plants around the given radius. Tinny scars appear on the male plant that will also resemble little balls. The little balls are clusters of pollen or, at times, may occur alone. 

At some point, the pollen scars will burst open, spilling the pollen and pollinating the female Cannabis.

Cannabis plants are largely male or female. There’s the rare hermaphrodite. Or a female can be treated with colloidal silver that will turn female branches into males so it can self-pollinate. But for the most part, cannabis plants are all completely male or female.

When do Cannabis Plant Produce Seeds?

The female cannabis plant will primarily produce seeds after pollination. The buds normally smoked come from unpollinated female Cannabis. However, when you allow pollination, your female plant will focus its energy on seed production rather than the high-quality bud.

No one wants to smoke seedy weed. Therefore, there will be low production of quality buds, and you may incur losses, and you will have to start afresh in planting your high-quality weed.

Additionally, a grower must ensure to eliminate the plant at the earliest stage when they show their male feature. This is critical to ensure that the female plants are not pollinated. Despite that, you must ensure that female plants do not become hermaphrodites and start pollinating in a process called harming.

What is Harming?

 Like every other plant, a weed’s natural drive is to propagate and procreate by using seeds. Therefore, when Cannabis is placed under environmental stress, it undergoes the process of harming. This is where the female Cannabis will grow both the male and female characteristics and self-pollinate to produce seeds.

Harming is a defensive mechanism to ensure that more plants are reproduced before the environmental stress kills the plant. Additionally, similar characteristics are passed to the seeds. And the bud from this plants is not best for consumption.

Some of the environmental factors that lead to harm include insufficient amount of water, an excessive amount of water, inadequate nutrients, and too much heat. Other factors that may cause the weed to become hermaphroditic are uncontrolled shifts in temperature, attacks from pests and diseases, harmful pesticides, damaging to the plant.

Female plants that have undergone harming processes can pollinate the flower of other quality plants, disrupt their growth, and divert their attention into producing seeds. Therefore, remove plants that have developed male characteristics to prevent further fertilization.

How to Prevent Harming in Cannabis

You must purchase your seeds from a reputable seed seller to prevent harm. They will ensure that you get the best seeds that are not vulnerable. Additionally, avoid subjecting your seed to environmental stress. Take daily rounds to check your plants and remove any male or hermaphroditic plants.

Wrap Up

There you go, now you understand that a male plant cannot produce seeds since it can’t grow the female characteristics. However, the female can develop the male features to help them reproduce. Ensure to eliminate them from the female to guarantee quality produce.