2 Easy Flower Questions

Well 3/4 plants have shown sex. 2 female 1 male. 2 Questions:

1. Do the flowers start growing from the top of the plant and work its way down? That seems to be what is happening to mine

2. Is there any cool things I can do with this wasted male plant? I figure I'll just throw it out, but are there any uses for leaves and stuff? I know you can't smoke leaves or any of that stuff, but I'd like to make it useful somehow.

Yeah the flowers tend to work their way downward.

As for the male they have a super small amount of thc so if you had like 100 of em you could make some hash oil or something. As for a single male there's really nothing to do with it except say your prayers an bury him