Beginning of Seedless CBD Flower Farmers are experiencing a vital period on the field and are both anxious and excited. It is now appropriate to stroll through fields searching for those uncommon (1/4000), completely male genotypes that can pollinate your crop and drastically reduce returns.
Cross-pollination is one of the biggest threats to a productive season, as seasoned cannabis producers are aware. Farmers who grow Seedless CBD Buds biomass suffer greatly from crop pollination (loss of 50% of usable material and 30% decrease in average THC content), and those who grow clipped flowers suffer catastrophically (total loss).
What if pollination incidents were never again a concern for farmers?
This vision has been realised for 2021 thanks to the scientific team at Macon Acres. We're happy to launch Seedless CBD Flower cannabis cultivars for 2021, following in the footsteps of plant breeders in other crops (watermelon, banana, hops, grapes, citrus, etc.).
Advanced ploidy screening has enabled the development of these non-GMO triploid cultivars.
Triploid advantages
• Fertile plants
No rogue pollen produced on your farm or by your neighbours will be used to seed your blooms.
• Ineffective pollen
Your farm's possible escaped pollen won't fertilise your neighbours.
• Lower costs
Crews for rogue "males" are no longer required.
• Higher yields
Among some varieties, above 100%
• Added complexity and aromatic content
An increase in terpene content of 30%–50%
• Increased input efficiency
Hyper-efficient plants are produced when important genes are duplicated more frequently.
• 100% overall THC compliance on the day of harvest
THCVA replaces type III plants and reduces the total THC proportion by half.
• Abundant in new cannabinoids (CBDV, CBGV, and CBCV)
High-value propyl cannabinoids make up between 35% and 65% of the overall proportion.
• Day-neutral and photoperiod-sensitive autoflower variations
Take into account early season varying harvests or September finishing times.
How is that even possible?
It's all based on arithmetic. Because of this, 2n + 4n Equals 3n.
Cannabis is nearly exclusively a diploid (2n) species in the wild. Each plant in a diploid inherits one set of chromosomes from each parent. Even in well cultivated populations, spontaneous mutations that double the diploid genomes and produce tetraploid (4n) individuals are possible.
Researchers at Macon Acres, Dr. Hsuan Chen and Brendan Rojas, created a series of experiments to treat diploid cannabis tissue with substances that are known to prevent cell proliferation. The mechanism closely resembles the extremely rare tetraploid-inducing occurrences found in nature, but it does so today (after numerous tests) more consistently. To identify the required doubling of genome size, treated plants must be compared to their diploid counterparts using a flow cytometer, a tool that can quantify the physical size of a plant genome. Tetraploids—plants with four sets of homologous chromosomes (4n) and an exact duplicate of the mother—are the product of a successful experiment. To avoid reverting to the diploid state, this screening procedure is repeated several times in successive cutting generations.
Two other research teams (Mansouri and Bagheri 2017 and Parsons et al. 2019) have described tetraploid cannabis plants, and their findings are consistent with ours: while there are distinct morphological changes and increased nutrient consumption, the chemical composition (ratios and total amounts produced) remains largely unchanged, albeit with a marked increase in aromatic compounds. With the exception of louder olfactory notes, research to date suggests that tetraploids offer little, if any, performance improvement over diploids.
Farmers' lives are changed forever when tetraploids (4n) and diploids (2n) are crossed. The resulting seed has two copies of the chromosomes from the tetraploid parent and one set from the diploid parent (3n). Many additional crops, especially those where Seedless CBD Flower features, essential oil production, and higher biomass are significant agronomic attributes, have benefited from this ancient plant breeding technique. Through ploidy improvements of our recently created, varin-rich total THC compliance hemp varieties, we are able to provide this ground-breaking innovation, making it one of the most important single-year advancements in the history of contemporary cannabis breeding.