Has anyone grown males and females??

Having female plants in the presence of a male plant will not cause them to become hermaphrodites. If you have an identifiable male, take him out of your tent once small clusters of male flowers form, leaving him inside to flower will result in all your females being seeded, with thousands of seeds. Once the male has small clusters of flowers, take him out and put him in your bath or other non windy area as once flowering commences, males need very little light to continue flowering. I find that by checking your male in the morning, you will discover many open or opening flowers and the best thing to do is to get a small cup/dish/bowl and gently snip the individual flowers off, letting them fall into the bowl. I say gently, if you are rough, all the pollen will fall out of the other open male flowers, and if they do, shaking or brushing the pollen into your bowl can recover some of it. Once you learn to identify male flowers that are about to open, but have not yet opened, this is by far the easiest way to get the pollen, as all you have to do is snip the flowers into a bowl and then wait for them to open and release pollen. Pollen will last a few weeks without losing any fertility, so you don't have to worry about using it immediately. Just store it in the dark and keep it dry and all will be fine. Do not put in in the fridge or freezer! this will destroy it due to the moisture. After a few days or ten, you should have a nice pile of yellow pollen that has been released, take care and remove the empty flowers once they have released their pollen, tapping the bowl stoutly will help release the pollen from the flowers. It takes a surprisingly small amount of pollen to make hundreds of seeds, so mixing your pollen half and half with corn flour is a good way to extend its quantity. I have found a small paintbrush/make up brush with short bristles as the best way to apply the pollen. It can help to trim the long bristles to about an eighth of an inch/4mm long, this helps with preventing the brush from "flicking" pollen where you don't want it. Now for the most important part, actually fertilizing your female calyxes/flowers! Choose female flowers that are still quite young, with all white pistils - this is very important! I prefer to pick flowers at the bottom of the plant, this way you can harvest the top of your plant and leave the lower fertilized flowers to completely ripen the seeds. Make sure to identify which flowers/branches you have pollinated, a bit of pipe cleaner, ribbon or wool tied to the branch makes identification easy. I prefer to pollinate around an hour or so before dark. Now to pollinate the females - take your brush with short bristles and dip it into your pollen and corn flour mixture then dab it onto the chosen flower gently, there is no need to use heaps, just enough to be able to see where you have been, the white corn flour helping in this regard. Pollinating early flowers when they are only "tufts" make the best candidates, as the seeds will take around 5 weeks to ripen and the earlier you pollinate the flowers the better. Pollinating only a few early flowers, say 8-14, will produces a couple hundred seeds if all goes well. If you are worried about the pollen spreading around due to the fan, pollinate 2 hours before lights out, then an hour before lights out, spray your flowers with plain water to kill any residual pollen. Pollination/fertilization only take 20-40 minutes and you can't "un-fertilize" the pollinated flowers by spraying water on them. So the key points - isolate the male, - collect mature male flowers as they present themselves, even a few times a day will lead to finding more flowers open. - once you have a small pile of pollen, mix it 50/50 with corn flour, - get a small brush with short bristles for pollen transfer, - select young fresh female flowers as the seed makers, - apply the pollen in the evening, making sure any fans are switched off so as to not blow pollen everywhere, - identify the branches/flowers that have been pollinated, - allow 5 weeks for seed ripening. Seeds are ready for harvest once you can see the brown seed shell through the split and drying calyxes. I find it best to cut the individual seeded flowers off and let them dry in a cardboard box before attempting to collect the seeds. Once they are dry, crushing and rubbing the flowers in the palm of your hands over a wide bowl to catch the seeds is the best method for separating the seeds from the flowers. This is a small sacrifice for making your own strain of plants. Any crushed bud matter that is collected from the seed removal can be saved for making edibles or just plain old thrown away. Removal of the seeds from the bud matter can be tedious, but seeds need to be stored on their own, any left over bits of bud can lead to fungal attack. After this, let you seeds air dry in a dark place for 3-4 weeks before placing them in a jar/bottle/container/bag and labelling them with what they are and date of harvest. Storing them in an air tight container in the refrigerator will keep them fresh for a few years. Good luck and I hope this helps,........... Organoman.

8thChevron is right. If your goal is to have little seedling babies then they need to mingle.

Hallo skunkmaster, du solltest schnell deinen Kerl aus dem zelt packen. Sonst wirst du alle deine Ladys bestäuben wenn er soweit ist. Das geht schneller wie du gucken kannst.

If you're trying to sex them, then leave the male in with the females. They will be less likely to go hermie once they've already been pollinated.