Its always a scare to find that your flower has seeded, you might have a male or a hermi (hermaphroditic plant) lurking somewhere amongst your ladies, however have no fear. There are still ways to turn your seeded flower into a lucrative sale.
Blast Your Bud – Seeds And All
- There are varying testimonials on whether this is a good idea, due to the concerns of seeds impacting the flavor quality of the final product, however here are a few things to consider
- If you have good flower, as in, if your flower is terpy, trichomed like a snowflake, and robust in its aromatic profile you shouldn’t have to worry too much about its flavor being tainted
- During the purging process, its very likely that the oils from the seeds will be burned off
- Cannabis seed also contains cannabinoids which can modify your cannabinoid count and be potentially very appealing to the end consumer
- *Depending on how your extraction set up is, you may want to try a smaller test run to make sure there isn’t too much waste that accumulates and/or backs up your system
Make a Dry Sift or Bubble Hash
- Running your flower through a dry sifter or water run for extracting trichomes is a great alternative if you have a high seed count within your flower
- Hash and Bubble Hash are essentially solventless (minus the water)
- They isolate the best parts of the plant; leaving you with just seed and dry material
- You can separate the seed and dry material put them towards other industries – sell your seed for protein/cooking and your dry material for fertilizer/building material