So i got a hermaphrodite in my crop and it has spread its pollen already. I know that when the pollen activates the female to produce seeds it stops producing the resin or as much of it anyway. Does anyone know exactly how much thc is lost when a female starts producing seeds?

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For each seed that grows inside a calyx, you loose most of the thc content of that calyx. depends on how bad it gets hit, either a seed grows in the calyx, or it fills with resin... so you see how much it can effect this. fully pollenated.. you will be very sad with the outcome.

i've seeded plants many times. it's not so much it loses potency, as it is losing mass. less mass = less thc. like russ0r said.
after seeding one branch on an otherwise sensi plant i mark it because there is no visible difference at harvest.
i feel your weed is just as potent it just has seeds is all.

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cool cool thanks for the info much appreciated. Peace

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I have been thinking about this for awhile too and even asked the question, for which I never got a question. Here's what I am thinking: I bought some "regs" or "mids" recently and the shit was actually pretty good. Not like my blueberry haze or crip that we usually get but not bad at all. Of course, it came with seeds and the buds weren't as big. Now, if I plant those seeds (which I did) and ensured the females don't get fertilized, shouldn't that result in buds with even higher potency? The seeded buds were pretty good already. Allow the plant to focus on producing resin instead of seeds and it should result in some even better shit, right?

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yes. if the bud was go the seed is as good. now it's up to the grow to pull the most out of the seeds genetics. it's all in the helix.

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This isn't true at all I'm afraid - you're somewhat confused and giving out incorrect information.

The ovules or calyxs or seed pods of a female Cannabis plant are parthenocarpic, which basically means they'll behave in the same way as if they've been pollenated and seeded regardless of whether they have or not. This is why the calyxs swell to the size they do on unpollenated sensimilla or seedless female plants.

Pollenation of the ovules or calyxs does NOT stop resin and THC production at all, it simply carries on as if the calyx had not been pollenated - this is the plants method of protecting the seed by a layer of sticky resin that deters any predators or insects from feeding on its seeds, and it also helps the seed pods from drying out from UVB exposure.

The resin is produced on the calyx to protect the seed - resin production does not stop at pollenation.

What does happen is that the plant then re-focuses it's energy on seed production and slows down the production of other flowers of calyxs because its genetic program is to produce seeds to complete it's life cycle - that's why unseeded sensimilla put all their energy into producing as many flowers, buds, ovules or calyxs as possible in a desperate attempt to get a least one of them pollenated and seeded.

The pollenation of half a dozen calyxs won't make much difference to the yield, but with more extensive pollenation the plant switches energy into seed production and the yield will suffer as a result.

But none of this has any affect whatsoever on resin production.

Wrong.

This just goes to show how one persons misinformation can perpetuate and confuse the hell out of everyone.

There is no difference in resin or THC production in a seeded calyx or an unseeded one - because the resin is there in the first place to protect the seed.

If anything, pollenation and seeding would INCREASE resin production not decrease it.

I never said it STOPPED resin production, but if what YOU say is TRUE, then , the calyx are the same size either way - if a seed is in there, as much of the resin is not.

partially incorrect i may be, but saying its not true at all is an overstatment to make me look bad, because you dont like me. And you're attitude around this forum is starting to get on the rediculous side you wanker. not to mention how cocky you act. do you smoke at all? you're never mellow. pull the broomstick out yer anus.

babygro does it again. thank you. i should really pull my books out more often. i've never believed seeding lowers potency. i just couldn't eplain it properly. you have now. there are HUGE misconceptions on resin production. and often for the sake of getting in big arguements i let them slide by me.
i've witnessed first hand the effects pollenating has on potency. yet people will still fight me on it. good post. thanks again.

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