Trichomes on male flowers?

Ace Yonder

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So my plant recently threw a few nanners, and I was checking them out under magnification to see if there was any pollen, and I noticed what appeared to be trichomes on the nanners. I did a little research trying to find out what pollen looked like to see if I could be confusing it, and I found this "The exterior surface of the male calyx is covered with non-glandular trichomes."(From http://www.cannabiscure.info/files/resources_4.htm). These are the pictures I took. My two questions are, are these non-glandular trichomes, or is this what pollen looks like? And if they are trichomes, would it make sense to assume that they probably contain thc? In Ed Rosenthal's book it says that at early stages of growth male plants have higher concentrations of thc than female plants, I wonder if this is where that would be contained?
 

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hydrosoil78

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Is this what pollen looks like- no. That looks like a male flower that did not mature. On a mature male the flowers would open up all over and the pollen I have used was like yellow dust.
If you grow some male plants out somewhere one might smell better, or turn purple, and the branching pattern and flower structure might be passed on too.
 

redeyedfrog

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Yep what he said, trichomes have a crystalline look when they come out at first,
them start to look like clear shrooms under magnification and then go cloudy and
then godly brown or red in colour, but never green lol
 

Ace Yonder

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Is this what pollen looks like- no. That looks like a male flower that did not mature. On a mature male the flowers would open up all over and the pollen I have used was like yellow dust.
If you grow some male plants out somewhere one might smell better, or turn purple, and the branching pattern and flower structure might be passed on too.
Awesome thank you, I was pretty sure that was the case cuz I thought it would have to be a dust to get airborne, but I'd never seen male flowers in person before so I wasn't sure on the looks.

Yep what he said, trichomes have a crystalline look when they come out at first,
them start to look like clear shrooms under magnification and then go cloudy and
then godly brown or red in colour, but never green lol
The trichomes that I was referring to are the tiny crystaline dots that line the crease on this male flower. I've cropped the pictures and circled them, these are what I was referring to, not the whole flower (I know for sure it is a male flower, and I know exactly what the normal stalked trichs look like as the plant is absolutely covered in them hahaha. Trichs that is, not male flowers. She only has 1 or 2 male parts probably due to my newbiness stressing her a bit)
 

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