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in #marijuana7 years ago


Life Stages of Marijuana & Gender : Did you know there are both male and female marijuana plants? Marijuana plants show genders, the sex matters a lot to the grower.That's because only female plants produce buds. How do you grow female plants?


                                    


                                     


Regular marijuana seeds will be 50% male, and 50% female. That means half of the seeds will be unusable as far as growing buds.One way around this is to purchased feminized seeds online. These seeds are available from all reputable online seedbanks, and the plants produced by these seeds are always female. 

When do marijuana plants reveal their gender?Cannabis plants go through two stages of life, the "vegetative" stage and the "flowering stage."They first go through the vegetative life stage, which you can sort of consider its "childhood" since the plant is only focusing on growing bigger and taller, and gender doesn't matter. At the beginning of this stage you usually can't tell what the plant's gender is.However, once the plant is about 6 weeks old, it will usually show signs of "pre-flowers" which will alert you to the gender before the beginning of the flowering stage.

Pre-Flowers usually reveal the gender around week 6 from seed. Otherwise you must wait for the flowering stage next, cannabis plants switch to the flowering stage which means they stop growing bigger and taller, and instead speed all their effort growing flowers (the buds we want are flowers!). The flowering stage is like the "adult" stage of a cannabis plant since at this point it's only interested in adult stuff like growing their male and female parts, then pollinating :) In the flowering stage, plants start growing buds or pollen sacs in earnest. The buds we want are female flowers, so growers generally only want to grow female plants.


                                    


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