MMJ: Feminized Movement

What can I make from the resin I clean out of my pipe? It’s a bit rough to smoke. - Hobo Hash

Yeah. You can do me a favor and make sure you throw that shit away. Unless you live in Idaho or Nebraska or some other godforsaken place where weed is scarce, there is no need to save the resin and tar scrapings from your bongs and pipes. First of all, it just tastes terrible. Secondly, it is not good for you at all. Yes it has some THC and you will get high, but you are essentially smoking tar and leftover burnt stuff. Tar is never good for your lungs. Just go to the dispensary and get some good weed. I’m glad we had this talk.

I keep hearing about “feminized” seeds. What does this even mean? - Gin Dirin Klusion

Okay. Pay attention, because this is gonna be on the final exam.

The cannabis plant generally has two sexes: the males create the pollen and the females create the sticky goodness that contains all the THC and stuff that gets you high. If male pollen manages to find a female cannabis plant, they will create a bunch of seeds. Back in the ’60s and ’70s, all cannabis had seeds in it. (Ask your parents about scooping out the seeds on an album cover before rolling a doobie.)

Sometime in the ’80s, people figured out that if they kept the boys out of the garden, the female plants would thrive and create wonderful delicious buds. Most of the time, people ensure that their cannabis plants are females by using clones. But for people who like to grow from seed, finding the male plants before they have a chance to create pollen and ruin all the beautiful sinsemilla in the garden can be a challenge. Especially in a small garden – if you can only grow six plants, and four of them turn out to be male, you’ve wasted a lot of time.

Enter feminized seeds. There are various techniques (spraying a female plant with gibberelic acid is a common one) that growers use to force a female plant to make pollen. Pollinating a female plant with pollen from a female plant creates seeds that will be (mostly) all female. Some growers don’t like feminized seeds because every once in a while, a rogue branch will turn into a male and start pollinating everything before anyone notices. But for the most part, people can grow great weed from feminized seeds. And now you know.