Editor's note: This article has been reviewed and updated for accuracy in 2026. Cannabis plants can either turn out to be male or female during their growth cycle. In this article, we will discuss early ways to identify potential male plants and what you may do with them. An obvious way to identify male cannabis plants are the pollen sacks that develop, whereas female plants will develop flowers. The male plant grows anthers, known to growmies as bananas or nanners, while the female plant grows stigmas, the long white tentacles that form a flower. The pollen found in the male sacks are used to pollinate female flowers and produce seed. This is not the outcome most growers want these days. A seasoned grow prefers to produce buds that are seedless or sensimilla, a Spanish word for seedless cannabis. Furthermore, when a male pollinates a female plant a lot of the plant's energy during the flowering stage is used in the making of seeds rather than the flower. More importantly, you don't want to spend time removing seeds from your flower before skinning up a joint. Most cannabis seeds that are sold as regular seeds and not feminized or au