[AgentPothead]

Originally Posted by PetFlora

what genius says you can't have both?

Obviously, you would not sell seeded bud, BUT, once the seeds have been physically removed, the remaining smashed bud is still very smokeable, or make butter with it

I haven't actually bought street weed in a long time, but 20 years ago it was always seeded unless you were willing to pay almost twice the price. And I'm not saying you can't pollinate a plant and then harvest some of the buds, but it doesn't make any sense to me, unless it's bud to hold you over until the next harvest and the seeds are required asap. Growing up we always assumed if it had seeds it was not as good. All the local weed the seeded stuff was worse visual and smoking quality than the non seeded stuff, but come to think of it the non seeded stuff always seemed to be better cared for all around, so maybe it was just that. I can't seem to find any information about thc levels in seeded vs non seeded plants. There is a study from 1971 on male/female plants https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-...1_page006.html It seems to say that male/female plants don't seem to have a large difference in thc levels, besides the obvious concentration in flowertips which don't occur on males. I would be interested in seeing some hard numbers about seeded vs non seeded thc levels in finished buds, because the more I think about it the more I'm not sure it matters

[Douglas.Curtis]

Quality is an awareness thing. It's entirely possible to grow low quality smoking flower, with well formed seeds. I don't play with low quality.

Rephrased for the slower crowd... "Feed for high quality seeds or high quality flower, not both."

[AgentPothead]

I don't know about anybody else, but for me a decent part of quality is the amount of THC in the buds. It would have to be a pretty damn big swing in THC in male plants to make up for the mass lost to seeds, but like in PetFlora's situation he's just trying to make the best use of what he has. I'd be interested to see some tests done because while the THC levels are supposed to be similar, their THC profiles are not. Maybe seeded buds are the secret to unlocking something besides THC9. Probably not, but until weed is treated like any other plant and we can run repeatable science on it we might not ever know.

[PetFlora]

Originally Posted by Douglas.Curtis

Quality is an awareness thing. It's entirely possible to grow low quality smoking flower, with well formed seeds. I don't play with low quality.

Rephrased for the slower crowd... "Feed for high quality seeds or high quality flower, not both."

For the ignorant responder, who is notorious for jumping to conclusions; you should start with the OP before commenting

Tell me where I said I grow for low quality or small size.

Once again you make a tolal ass of yourself

[PetFlora]

Good News

Got a bunch of nice dark seeds for another grow, and a bit of what I expect to be high quality smoke

Right now I have 6 BBCC seedlings to keep me busy for the next 3 months

[AgentPothead]

Congratulations those seeds look good!