How can you tell if your female cannabis plant has been pollinated?

New, inexperienced, or inexperienced cannabis growers sometimes cannot tell whether a female cannabis plant has been pollinated or not. Some also cannot distinguish between the male plants and the female plants. This endangers the entire company.

Trust me, nobody wants to smoke or use pollinated cannabis. No farmer would even want pollinated plants unless they might be a breeder. Pollination of cannabis plants leads to a significant deterioration in the quality of the harvest. This means that the farmer would sell at a lower price than he should have.

Pollination of cannabis plants

One thing that single-handedly can change the quality of harvested cannabis is whether it was pollinated (intentionally or not) to induce seed production.

Pollination of cannabis plants occurs as soon as male pollen is available. In Hermien, it occurs as soon as the male reproductive organs begin to produce pollen.

For this reason, it is important as a cannabis farmer to recognize the signs that your female cannabis plants have been pollinated.

Female cannabis plants are most preferred over their male counterparts as they have been found to produce outputs with higher cannabinoid content and overall higher quality. When these female plants are pollinated, they begin to produce seeds rather than high quality buds. Yes! – a cannabis farmer is after quality buds. By using less energy to produce these buds, the plants will produce a poor harvest.

Identification of pollinated female cannabis plants

Leading indicators that show when a female plant has been pollinated include

• Larger cover sheets: A wrapper is a leaf-living structure that is usually small. They serve as a protective shield for the female genitals. This is the same point that buds develop during the flowering phase. When male pollen gets into the reproductive organs, the bracts become larger.

One harmless way to test that your plants’ bracts are still in their normal condition is to cut off a bract with tweezers. Once removed, it must be opened. If the wrapper contains a seed, the plant has been pollinated.

• Darker stamp hairs: The pistil hairs are usually white before pollination. Once pollinated, they dry out and take on a darker appearance.

• White stamp stems: In pollinated female plants, the pistil stems keep their white color, while the tips of the hair-like structures become darker. The pistil stems of unpollinated plants also change color, but the change can be observed from the stem to the tip of the structure.

Prevention of cannabis pollination

The first aspect to understand when trying to prevent pollination in female cannabis plants is that pollination occurs through male pollen.

The best and most efficient way to avoid pollination is to keep the male plants and intersex plants away from the female plants. This prevents direct pollination.

There will also be males and hermias who managed to evade the farmer until the blooming season.

For this reason, the farmer must be attentive from the start of the operation to the end. Male plants release their pollen within the first three weeks after flowering, so the farmer must be very careful to regularly check for these unwanted plants. As soon as they are discovered, the farmer must uproot them immediately.

However, indirect or deliberate pollination can occur when the male pollen is carried over long distances to where female cannabis plants are by physical elements such as water, wind, or even other animals such as birds and rodents. The microscopic nature of the male pollen makes it easier for him to travel 3 miles in good weather and 30 miles in harsh weather conditions. In this case, frequent checks will help the farmer to eliminate plants showing signs of pollination.

Identification of male cannabis plants

The sex of cannabis plants can hardly be determined before the vegetative or flowering phase. Female plants show at later periods than males. The farmer must wait for the female plants to begin developing their pistils before they can be sure of the plant’s sex.

Female plants develop thin white hairs at the nodes between the stem and stem, while the male plants form pollen sacs. These sacs appear as small balls that grow individually or in groups. At the height of the pre-flowering period, the pollen sacs burst open to spill the pollen in them and thus pollinate the females.

Not only outdoor female plants can be pollinated

Novice growers will be surprised when their female plants grown indoors show signs of pollination. Various factors can cause this phenomenon.

Indoor growing alone is on the safe side, but it is not 100% safe against male pollen. In these cases the grower would be the first suspect pollinator. They may have unknowingly introduced the microscopic pollen into the growing area.

Stress in female plants can also induce pollen sacs to develop in the nodes. This exposure can be due to adverse environmental factors such as light leaks. These new structures, called bananas, are often difficult to see because they appear directly on the female buds. While breeders can easily distinguish between male and female organs in hermaphroditic plants, this is not so easy with stressed plants.

So save the situation

For growers who discover pollination too late, it would be best to plant the resulting seeds to make the most of the daunting situation. If the seeds are made from a good quality plant, the farmer may consider selling them to other breeders who want to grow genetically stable and consistent cannabis plants.

It is important to note that this can be done in two ways: in the event of indirect or accidental pollination, the farmer risks a harvest of low productivity and an unacceptable standard.

In the case of self-pollinating plants, it is best to dispose of them as their hermaphroditic properties are passed back on to the offspring.

Last blow

Detected early, pollinated female plants and the male plants must be eliminated to save time and other resources.

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