Cannabis male plants are notorious for their bad reputation. Pollination of their lady flowers is hazardous, which is why most growers learn to spot them and destroy them as soon as possible. Male cannabis does not deserve its poor reputation. Find out some amazing uses for your male cannabis plants before you toss them out. Looking to try something new? Check out this.
Can You Smoke Male Plants?
Yes, and they will frequently be found in the same locations as feminine plants. Male cannabis plants, on the other hand, don’t contain many cannabinoids or terpenes—the vital chemicals that make smoking marijuana enjoyable. Female cannabis flowers have the greatest concentration of these chemical compounds. Male cannabis plants do produce certain minute glands that generate these chemicals (trichomes), but their quantity pales when compared to female plant quantities.
It is vital not to cultivate a male plant since it might harm your female plants. The flowers will stop producing resin and start to form seeds if the male releases pollen into them and fertilizes them. Smoking males, on the other hand, carry considerably more danger than benefit unless you have no alternative.
Male Cannabis Plants Ensure a Strong Genetic Line
Cannabis is a dioecious plant, which means the females and males grow on separate plants. The elimination of all male progeny as soon as possible limits genetic diversity. Males are necessary for a strain’s strength and vitality.
Many individuals begin growing cannabis with a single feminized strain or base their entire operation on identical clones, which reduces the amount of variety in their crop. This lack of diversity puts your crop at risk of diseases and pests.
Cannabis plants have stamens and petals, whereas female plants contain pistils. An unskilled observer might mistake an early calyx and stamen for one another. As the cannabis plant matures, several stamens will develop on the males, with pistols emerging from the females’ calyces. The pollen-filled stalks of male plants grow more numerous over time, eventually collapsing and releasing it into the environment. To increase future breeding possibilities, a plant that displays obvious male characteristics should be removed from the flowering area.
Hashish & Concentrates from Male Cannabis Plants
It’s possible that a hashish sample contains resin from males that were not removed from the field, depending on where it came from. Although most Moroccan and Lebanese farmers remove male plants early to avoid cross-pollination, this isn’t always the case. Male plants are sometimes gathered and treated in conjunction with the females.
There have been reports of cannabis farmers and breeders employing their male flowers, leaves, and stems to create hashish and concentrates, albeit with varying degrees of success. Overall resin content is likely to be low, so it’s best to use a lot of plants or processes that extract the most from the plant. A few of these methods are worth mentioning, including QWISO and butane extraction.
Male cannabis plants may also be utilized to create cannabutter and other oils and infusions. Although there is little evidence on the psychoactive effects of male plants vs females, anecdotal reports suggest that males have a more “high” than “stoned” sensation, and cerebral.
Males Can Often Make Good Companions
Cannabis has been utilized as a pesticide and repellent in a number of ways throughout history. Cannabis pesticides and repellents have been developed from dried flower and leaf extracts, while pure cannabinoids have shown antibacterial and antimicrobial effects. Cannabis can also be used as a companion plant.
Cannabis has long been used as a pest repellent. Cotton has been bred with cannabis to fight cotton worms in vegetable gardens, protecting crops from cabbage caterpillar and potato beetle infestation, intercropped with potatoes to keep root maggots at bay, and planted with potatoes to prevent potato blight fungus. It is also effective against European chafer larvae when intercropped with them.
Cannabis also prevents the formation of unwanted species, such as noxious chickweed, and repelling harmful nematodes including the potato cyst nematode, root knot nematode, and soybean cyst nematode.
Concentrate Production
Male plants, on the other hand, do not have zero levels of THC. Males are less potent than females because they contain less THC. They do, however, include THC, which makes them psychoactive. Male plants don’t generate buds; instead, they create stamen or pistillate flowers that do. Cannabinoids may be found in their flowers, leaves, and stems. Drying and pressing the pollen from a male plant gives you a gentle buzz.
Female plants, on the other hand, have a greater THC concentration in their leaves during the vegetative growth stage. At adulthood, females produce a far greater THC ratio. Males’ biggest difficulty is their limited lifespan. There are no known strategies to delay pollination and increase resin production at this time. Extract the existing resin and create hash oil, BHO wax, or dabbing oils right now.
Delicious, Healthy, Nutritious THCA Juice
Have you ever tried consuming raw cannabis juice? It seems that the cannabolic acids (particularly THCA and CBDA) in weed juice have a lot of advantages. They really do have many of the same benefits as marijuana consumed in other ways. Male plants produce equal amounts of these potentially beneficial fluids as female plants. As a result, you won’t get high from drinking the juice, taking an anti-inflammatory dose of cannabinoids, or fertilizing your plants with this method.
Final Thoughts on Male Cannabis Plants
Male plants are generally destroyed by marijuana producers as a matter of course. We do not feel that you should be so hasty to destroy them. Women develop the buds that may either make us high or take advantage of weed’s purported health benefits. Male plants, on the other hand, are quite beneficial.
Cannabis plants produce both CBD and THC, which are the chemicals that help to relieve inflammation and pain. They’re also a great garden buddy because they consume CO2 through their roots and give excellent fertilizer.
Do you intend to use any of the features listed above? If that’s the case, keep in mind that cannabis pollen has been observed to travel great distances in order to fertilize a female. Make sure your crop is safe!