Understanding cannabis plant gender and reproduction is crucial to a successful harvest, but it can be quite confusing. This comprehensive guide will explain the plants reproductive process, hermaphroditism, and what to do with male cannabis plants.
The majority of people who grow cannabis do so to harvest female marijuana flowers. Cannabis plants are dioecious, and only female cannabis flowers produce the chemical compound THC, which is the cannabinoid responsible for marijuana’s signature psychoactive effect.
There are a lot of processes involved in creating bountiful cannabis crops, but none are more important than determining the sex of plants. Whether you are cultivating marijuana for personal use or starting a business growing our wholesale seeds, you need to be able to identify male and female plants as well as those that don’t fit into either category.
