What to do with male plants?

Colloidal silver is used to kill the y chromosome
XX chromosomes = female, XY chromosomes = male (with humans abyways, but I'm assuming the male weed plant also carries a y chromosome). Without the y chromosome present, there can be no xy pairing, and thus no males.

Hermies, however, begin to produce their own y chromosome (genetic mutation, but caused by environmental factors). Its the y chromosome that directs the plant to start producing male flowers in a Hermie. The chromosome might not be as prevalent (more of a chance of female) but by no means does it make all female seeds.

And to any noobs- who cares how dumb your question is. If you want to have dank plants, then learn what they need. You won't get there without asking questions, but forums should be one of the last options, lol. I'm on my first grow and most of my questions have been answered by Google, or in a couple books I have.

The problem with forums is that you're dealing with people. Use Google; let a machine be tour teacher. They won't make you feel two inches tall to make themselves feel better.

BDOGKush said:

He posted a beginner question in the "Newbie" thread. Why even comment if you have nothing positive to add?

Seems like you've got a lot of decent info off your question OP. I kill males at first sight unless I'm doing a seed run but even then I'll separate the male from the females and harvest some pollen off the male and then use a hobby paint brush to lightly dust selective female flowers. This allows me to get seeds while not populating my nice tops with tons of seeds.

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Awesome info about the paint brush trick, just brilliant.

Dogenzengi said:

BSD,
I think all the Noobies who ask redundant questions, questions that may have already been covered.
They are Human and in Joining a Group of Like Minded people they expect that information would/will flow freely.

If I can save someone two hours of watching YouTube video because I did I share gladly with anyone.

I am sure you are very well read and have tons of hours of study on the subject of Marijuana Botany.
Being so educated as you seem it must make us beginners a pain to people like you.

I say feel free not to comment if you don't like the Question.

No Flame Meant just seems like you are being a Buzz Kill....

Bless,
DZ

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You'd learn a lot more from a 2 hours video then from a forum... People are just lazy and need someone to hold their hand like babies. It's cool. Babies are everywhere now a days.

Ive always believed in bagging any males that come from a new seed stock for future breeding.

In an outdoor situation, you buy you're new fancy seed pack you are going to use for this season and germinate all seeds indoors just before the start of winter.

Plant in spring, the males will show themselves long before the females and when they open with pollen, take a picture, bag n shake' the central stem and label the plant with a code corresponding to the picture.

Then kill the male plant(s)

A couple of weeks (depending on how much veg you want) before you're favorite females (or the females from you're new seed stock) start to change into flowering, cut some clones from them and root them.

Plant them out and wait for them to start flowering. Bag n shake' them when they are ready remembering to tag them according to the male you pollinate them with for records.

Collect seeds as per normal when ready and record from which phenotype they were taken.

Next season, plant a huge bunch of you're new seed stock and restart the process.

I think the key to sucessful breeding and creation lays in correct cataloging/recording.

It takes years, but done correctly in the end you get a stabilized strain that would put most seed banks to shame

Cheers Jimmy.