What are pistils?
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herbtoker
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pistils are the preflowers for the female plants. They are what will turn into the buds. buds are what have the most thc on them, but im not sure if the pistils actually carry the thc. i think that a plant produces thc to protect itself from sun and wind and stuff. its made by the plant, which then puts it on the buds when they are maturing. its kinda like on a fruit plant, you get a flower (the pistil) then that turns into an actual fruit (the bud). hope that helps!
herbtoker
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oh i got ya now...
well i dont know exacly what they do, i think when the buds are mature they still call em pistils though, i just thought you meant before the buds were mature. i cant say i know thier function, but the buds for sure carry almost all of the thc in a cannabis plant.
the only thing i know that the pistils do is they are from the female plant and are used for reproduction. when a male plants sacs break open, "plant sperm" or pollen is released and the hairs on a female bud catch them. if this happens the female will produce seeds.
thats the only thing i can think of but im sure flowers serve more purpose than that. sorry but i hope that helps!
shamegame
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Yes they do.Just in lower concentration than the trichs themselves. The leaves, even stems carry SOME amount of thc, if only trace amounts.
tckfui
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pistols in the pot world are just the 2 or more white hairs that come out of the calyxs, in regular plant terms a pistols are the wholre visible reproductivve organs in plants the, as we refer to them pistols, and the male pollen sacks.
but since cannabis is a plant which has both male and female plants somewear along the line it became popular to refer to the pistols as pistols.
the pistols job is to collect pollen, once a grain of pollen gets stuck to the hair about 30 minutes later the grain of polen will sprout a root almost that fertilizes the pistols, sending some shit down it into the calyx where a seed will then start growing.
I've been spending a decent amount of time latly looking at my plants nder a microscope, and it looks like the pistols are loded with trychroms, just not stalked trichroms, I forget what their called, its the other kind of glandular trichrom with almost no stalk.
of course their not as many as on the calyxes but theres aquite a few
but since cannabis is a plant which has both male and female plants somewear along the line it became popular to refer to the pistols as pistols.
the pistols job is to collect pollen, once a grain of pollen gets stuck to the hair about 30 minutes later the grain of polen will sprout a root almost that fertilizes the pistols, sending some shit down it into the calyx where a seed will then start growing.
I've been spending a decent amount of time latly looking at my plants nder a microscope, and it looks like the pistols are loded with trychroms, just not stalked trichroms, I forget what their called, its the other kind of glandular trichrom with almost no stalk.
of course their not as many as on the calyxes but theres aquite a few
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White Widow Woman
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mrCRC420
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Hi Class!
What are trichomes you say? No, they're not there to get you high! But they sure do! Trichomes/Trichs (both stalked and unstalked/ decapitat and whatever) secrete that sticky, THC-packed, resinious, love-juice that we love so much in order to catch male pollen. So... we're getting high off of female love-juice but it's all good
Sticky leaves = happy man or fertilized female 
What are trichomes you say? No, they're not there to get you high! But they sure do! Trichomes/Trichs (both stalked and unstalked/ decapitat and whatever) secrete that sticky, THC-packed, resinious, love-juice that we love so much in order to catch male pollen. So... we're getting high off of female love-juice but it's all good
Sticky leaves = happy man or fertilized female
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dakratzman
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wow ... tckfui .. might want to work on your spelling.. or at least look up words to check them before you type.. no offense but you've got to draw the line somewhere lol .. and you are bad
mudhead31
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I read somewhere that thc is what the plant uses to form the seed shell.This is why seedy weed isn't as strong as seedless.That being said though I have had some seedy stuff that kicked my ass.Just makes me wonder how good it could have been without seeds???