A staminate flower is a male flower: it has stamens and no functional pistil. A male cannabis flower is a small pendulous bud with five sepals (tepals) that open to expose five anthers on short filaments. The anthers split and release fine, wind-carried pollen.
In practice
On a male plant, staminate flowers appear in loose clusters (panicles), often earlier than females show. Closed male flowers look like small balls on a short stalk, with no stigmas. They begin shedding pollen roughly 1-3 weeks after first appearing.
Growers producing seedless flower remove males as soon as they are identified. Breeders keep the best ones. House position: males are a necessity in breeding, and GenetixBay encourages and rewards keeping and documenting good males in the Stud Book.
Staminate flowers or exposed anthers on a female plant mean an intersex (hermaphrodite) plant, which should be culled and not bred from.
Don't confuse with
- Pistillate flower: the female flower with stigmas.
- Anther: the pollen-bearing part of the stamen.
- Pre-flower: the first flower at a node, either sex.
The pollen-producing part of a stamen; in cannabis each male flower has five anthers that split to shed wind-blown pollen.The female reproductive organ of a flower (ovary, style and stigmas); in cannabis growers loosely call the visible white stigmas "pistils".The sticky, hair-like tip of the female pistil that catches pollen; each cannabis female flower has two, white when fresh and darkening with age.The Stud Book is GenetixBay's showcase of documented male plants, with selection journals, keeper details and sire credits; males are encouraged and rewarded.In cannabis growing, a plant (usually female) that develops both pistillate and staminate flowers or anthers; botanists call it intersex or monoecious expression.A female flower with a pistil but no functional stamens; in cannabis, a bract-wrapped ovary topped by two stigmas.The first individual flowers that form at stem nodes during late vegetative growth, letting a grower tell male from female before full flowering.Having male and female flowers on separate individual plants; drug-type cannabis is naturally dioecious with an XY sex-chromosome system.
