The Cannabis Grow Bible. Greg Green

Pearl

      • Early Skunk (Sensi; Skunk #1 x Early Pearl)

      • Euforia (Dutch Passion; Unknown Skunk x Unknown Skunk)

      • FourWay (Head Seeds; [Cinderella 99 x Apollo 11] x [NYC Diesel x G-13])

      • Flo (DJ Short; Purple Thai x Afghani)

      • Floater (Flo x Jacks Cleaner x Blueberry)

      • Green Devil (Tikiseedbank; Bambata x Shulam)

      • Hawaiian Skunk (Seedsman; Hawaiian Indica x Skunk #1)

      • Hempstar (Dutch Passion; Skunk x Oasis x Haze)

      • Jack Herer (Sensi; Skunk #1 x Northern Lights #5 x Haze)

      • Lambsbread Skunk (Dutch Passion; Jamaican Lambsbread x Skunk #1)

      • Lemon Skunk (Jordan of the Island; Citrus Skunk x Skunk #1)

      • Lifesaver (BOG; Jack Cleaner x DJ Short’s Blueberry x BogBubble)

      • Life Star (BOG; Lifesaver x Sensi Star)

      • L.S.D (BOG; Lifesaver x NYC Diesel)

      • Neon Super Skunk (Subcool; Super Skunk x Black Russian)

      • Neville’s Haze (Thai x Colombian, with a 1/4 NL#5)

      • Orange Crush (AE77 Cali-O x DJ Short’s Blueberry)

      • Purple Skunk (Dutch Passion; Purple #1 x Early Skunk)

      • Royal Hawaiian (Reeferman; Hawaiian Indica x Hawaiian Sativa)

      • SAGE (THSeeds; Big Sour Holy x Afghani)

      • Shaman (Dutch Passion; Purple #1 x Skunk)

      • Shiva Skunk (Sensi; Skunk #1 x Northern Lights #5)

      • Skunk #1 (Dutch Passion; Afghani x Thai x Colombian Gold)

      • Skunk #5 (Effettoserra; [Afghani x Acapulco Gold x Colombian Gold] x Dutch Skunk)

      • Skunk Berry (Peak Seeds; Skunk x Blueberry)

      • Skunk Haze (Seedsman; Skunk #1 x Original Haze)

      • Strawberry Cough (Dutch Passion; Strawberry Fields x Haze)

      • Super Silver Haze (Mr. Nice; [Northern Lights #5 x N. Haze] x [Skunk #1 x N. Haze])

      • Super Silver Sour Diesel Haze (Reservoir; Super Silver Haze x Sour Diesel)

      • Super Skunk (Sensi; Skunk #1 x Afghani)

      • Turtle Power (Amsterdam Marijuana; Purple Power x Early Girl)

      • White Skunk No.1

      • Ultra Skunk (Dutch Passion; Swiss Skunk x Skunk)

Cannabis Reproduction

      Cannabis reproduction is botanically similar to other plants, and yet unique. All flowering plants, such as cannabis, have a structure designed for reproduction in the form of developing imperfect flowers with the male staminate formed separately from the female pistillate (carpellate), except for instances where perfect hermaphroditism is observed, where staminates form next to or from pistillate with calyx formation.

       Dioecious, Monecious, and Hermaphrodites

      It is unwise to use the term “mainly” to support one sexual description of cannabis. While we find “dioecious” populations having the male and female reproductive organs borne on loose panicles and racemes “separately” as individuals (having the male and female reproductive organs borne on separate individuals of the same species), we also find populations or members within dioecious populations bearing “both” male and female organs that are “monecious.” Likewise, we can say that we find dioecious members within monecious populations. For monecious members, the respective organs can be found within the same floral cluster: the inflorescences. Sexually, we can describe any cannabis member as:

Hermaphrodite	Only hermaphrodite plants.
Monecious	Only monecious plants.
Dioecious	Only dioecious plants.
Gynodioecious	Both female and hermaphrodite plants present.
Androdioecious	Both male and hermaphrodite plants present.

      Trioecious / Subdioecious Male, female, and hermaphrodite plants are all in the same population.

      Some colas have short twisted sticky buds but the resin and taste produced by these plants is something to behold.

      While all dense clusters of female flowers produced by cannabis are loosely referred to as “bud,” all unfertilized female flowers are called “sinsemilla”; however, the nature of members of plant populations that are hermaphrodite, monecious, gynodioecious, andridioecious, or subdioecious will tend to produce pollen that fertilizes the female flowers, producing seeded buds. While in general seeded bud is regarded as low in quality, this is not because of potency factors—as long as the pistils have time to mature to the point of optimal potency—but because it is harder to work with bud that has seeds. Seeds are sought afterwards in breeding programs, but usually only healthy ones from dioecious parents.

Advanced Sinsemilla Facts

      Sinsemilla is a term for a type of “marijuana” first used by the American Spanishspeaking cannabis cultivation community and means “without seeds.” It occurs in cultivation where male plants are removed from the population, leaving only the female plants as part of a plan to promote optimal yields and results. However, with this type of technique there is a chance that fertilization can occur because it produces stress-related sexual change where some dioecious females will express gynodioecious sexuality by bearing male organs. For this reason, great care is taken in choosing a mother plant for a perpetual clone sinsemilla system that will push the female’s genetic capacity for pistil gland production to the maximum. This is undertaken while under the supervision of a grower who will manually remove the presence of any and all male reproductive organs where gynodioecious occurs. Sometimes it is better to remove a whole plant rather than let it pollinate the other sinsemilla-conditioned females. If the gynodioecious sex is too profuse, the grower will usually terminate cultivation of that clone population while trying to find a more suitable mother plant that can be tailor-made for a sinsemilla environment. Here we cannot overemphasize the need for good genetics if the sinsemilla grower wishes to generate the results that he needs.

      While there can be some sustainable evidence to support a case for more psychoactive “cannabinoids” in sinsemilla produce, there is little evidence to support that the cannabinoid levels in the glands secreted by the pistils are of higher value. Rather, there is an optimal production of the number of glands.

      There is a claim that a female in a sinsemilla environment is being stressed to receive pollen by generating more resin. This image, however, is distorted once more by the presence of high calyx and resin gland counts on some low potency strains and the low calyx low resin count of very high potency strains. The main concern for the cultivator here is to watch males in the flowering cycle of a sinsemilla crop.

      These leaves are covered in trichomes and can be used to make hash or for cooking.

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