How to Remove Male Plants From Soil

[TheBlkVet 34]

Noob here. I've seen many tuts on how to sex or locate the male plant; but never one SHOWING, or EXPLAINING exactly how to do this. I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to explain this procedure. Thanks so very much.

[TheBlkVet 34]

Thanks Tokage. I pretty much understand that aspect of sexing. What I don't understand is removing the male. Maybe I'm getting confused here.

If I'm not mistaken, if it is a male plant, then it will have balls and should be removed from the grow room immediately. So here's where I think I'm getting it mixed up- a plant can only be a male or a female right? If it has both sexes, it is then a herm, which should also be removed, correct?

I think I'm mixing up a hermed plant, for a regular male OR female plant; because I'm thinking, if it has both sexes, then how do you remove the male so he won't pollinte the female? DUH- I think I just answered my own question, but if you will provide more insight to my babbling, it would be appreciated.

I think my question should be- Can a hermed plant be saved (removing the male part of the plant), and if so, how?

One Love!

[TheBlkVet 34]

Gotcha! Thanks for the info bro! Peace and love.

[MissKittyKat 157]

Kill the male plant unless you want seeds. You will not get high off males. Just kill, remove, chop down, tear out, pull, weed the male plants so you only have female plants in the room or in the patch (outside)

I guess you were thinking you could remove the male flowers and keep the plant? The plant itself will be male or female with certain sex traits. The male has balls of pollen or sacks of pollen. The female has flowers or pistals (buds) that you want.

hope that helps

[TheBlkVet 34]

Hey Ms Kitty! Thanks for chiming in. Much learning has made me mad! I've digested so much info, from many different forums that I started getting it mixed up; and I thought a plant could be both male and female. Then a light shewed through the fog in my brain, and common sense re-established itself in my rationale, and I caught my misconceptions just in time to thwart global embarrasment from my question. Whew! Peace and love.

[TheBlkVet 34]

Yes sir it is! And that's where I got it messed up. I thought ALL of the plants were herms from seedlings, and you were considered lucky if your seeds only sprouted females. I don;t think I consciously separated them until yesterday. But I do undrstand now that you can plant say two seeds in a pot. They can come out male, female, or even hermies, but you won't be able to decipher this until they are in flower. It is then that you pull and kill the male plant unless you want seeds. 10-4!

[TheBlkVet 34]

[TheBlkVet 34]

Thanks for the info. For my first grow, I'll be using Feminized Seeds only, and growing them in Earth Box Jrs; although I understand that as you said, the growing conditions and stress could cause the plant to herm. I received my seeds from Mandala, and from the reviews their seed germination rate is phenomonal. We'll see. Peace.