{"id":4865,"date":"2026-07-24T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luminorecruit.com\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:45:12","slug":"cannabispflanzen-anatomie-ein-feldfuhrer-von-den-wurzeln-bis-zu-den-trichomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luminorecruit.com\/de\/cannabis-plant-anatomy-a-field-guide-from-roots-to-trichomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabispflanzen-Anatomie: Ein Feldf\u00fchrer von den Wurzeln bis zu den Trichomen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Die Cannabispflanze ist organisierter und strategischer, als sie aussieht. Nur die\u00a0weibliche Pflanze<\/strong>\u00a0produziert die harzigen Bl\u00fcten, wo fast die gesamte Pflanze\u00a0psychoaktive und therapeutische Verbindungen<\/strong>,\u00a0THC<\/strong>,\u00a0CBD<\/strong>\u00a0und ihre Begleitstoffe Cannabinoide und Terpene sind konzentriert. Fast die gesamte aktive Chemie wird in mikroskopisch kleinen Dr\u00fcsen hergestellt, die als\u00a0Trichome<\/strong>\u00a0die auf der Oberfl\u00e4che spezifischer Gewebes\u00e4tze sitzen. Das Verst\u00e4ndnis der Pflanzenanatomie vom Wurzelhaar bis zum Trichom ist die Grundlage, auf der jeder ernsthafte Anbauer, Extraktor und Qualit\u00e4tsspezialist in der europ\u00e4ischen Industrie seine Arbeit aufbaut.<\/p>

Betrachtet man eine reife Cannabispflanze, sieht man leicht ein unscharfes gr\u00fcnes Durcheinander aus Bl\u00e4ttern, Bl\u00fcten und Haaren. Schaut man genauer hin, tut die Pflanze etwas erstaunlich Pr\u00e4zises. Sie w\u00e4chst in ordentlichen Knoten. Sie schickt ihre wertvollsten Produkte an eine Handvoll spezifischer Strukturen. Sie trennt M\u00e4nnchen von Weibchen. Und sie produziert fast alles\u00a0Cannabinoide<\/strong>\u00a0und\u00a0Terpene<\/strong>\u00a0in winzigen pilzf\u00f6rmigen Fabriken auf der Oberfl\u00e4che ihrer Knospen. Sobald Sie diese Teile benennen k\u00f6nnen, h\u00f6rt alles von einer Anbau-SOP bis zu einem Analysezertifikat auf, wie Fachjargon auszusehen.<\/p>

Dies ist der zweite Artikel unserer Cannabis 101-Reihe, ein Leitfaden in einfacher Sprache f\u00fcr Fachleute, die in den europ\u00e4ischen Sektor einsteigen. Im ersten Artikel behandelten wir\u00a0die 10.000-j\u00e4hrige Geschichte von Cannabis, von der antiken Medizin \u00fcber das moderne Verbot bis hin zur aktuellen europ\u00e4ischen Wiederbelebung<\/a>; hier betrachten wir die Pflanze selbst. Ob Sie einen portugiesischen Z\u00fcchter \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen, in Berlin ein Rezept ausstellen oder einen neuen bewerten\u00a0Kultivar<\/strong>\u00a0F\u00fcr eine Klinik in Gro\u00dfbritannien ist die Anatomie der Ausgangspunkt f\u00fcr die Konversation. Wir streben keinen Botanikabschluss an, sondern das mentale Modell, das Sie tats\u00e4chlich ben\u00f6tigen, um den Markt zu verstehen.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Die allgemeine Anatomie: Gemeinsam f\u00fcr jede Cannabispflanze<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Bevor wir uns damit befassen, was eine weibliche Cannabispflanze medizinisch wertvoll macht, ist es hilfreich, die Teile zu kennen, die jede Cannabis\u00adpflanze, ob m\u00e4nnlich oder weiblich, gemeinsam hat. Dies sind die strukturellen, vegetativen Komponenten: das Skelett, auf dem sp\u00e4ter die interessantere reproduktive Chemie der Pflanze aufgebaut wird.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Wurzeln.<\/strong>\u00a0Wenn ein Cannabissamen keimt, taucht zuerst eine einzelne Hauptwurzel auf, die sogenannte\u00a0Taproot<\/strong>, welche gerade nach unten w\u00e4chst und die Pflanze verankert. Wenn die Pflanze reift, bilden sich sekund\u00e4re und terti\u00e4re\u00a0Seitenwurzeln<\/strong>\u00a0Verzweigen sich von der Pfahlwurzel ab und bilden ein breiteres, faseriges Netzwerk, das den Gro\u00dfteil der Wasser- und N\u00e4hrstoffaufnahme \u00fcbernimmt. Die Pfahlwurzel selbst verschwindet nicht; sie bleibt das zentrale Verankerungsorgan der Pflanze f\u00fcr ihr ganzes Leben. (Erw\u00e4hnenswert: Cannabis, das aus einer)\u00a0Klon<\/strong>, was bedeutet, dass sie aus einem Steckling und nicht aus einem Samen gewonnen wird, besitzt keinen direkten Wurzelballen, sondern nur faserige Adventivwurzeln, was einer der Gr\u00fcnde ist, warum Klone sich im Boden unterschiedlich verhalten. Wurzeln beherbergen auch n\u00fctzliche Mikroben, die Vitalit\u00e4t und Terpenauspr\u00e4gung beeinflussen, weshalb moderne Z\u00fcchter Substrat, Sauerstoffzufuhr und Bew\u00e4sserungstaktik gro\u00dfe Aufmerksamkeit schenken.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Stamm.<\/strong>\u00a0Der zentrale Stiel transportiert Wasser und Zucker zwischen Wurzeln und Bl\u00e4ttern und verleiht der Pflanze die mechanische Festigkeit, um ihre Bl\u00fcten zu tragen. Im reifen Zustand hohl und durchgehend faserig, ist er\u00a0dasselbe Gewebe, aus dem seit Tausenden von Jahren Hanfseile und Textilien hergestellt werden<\/a>.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Knoten und Internodien.<\/strong>\u00a0A\u00a0Knoten<\/strong>\u00a0die Stelle am St\u00e4ngel, an der \u00c4ste und Bl\u00e4tter austreten; der Abstand zwischen den Knoten ist der\u00a0Internodium<\/strong>. Der Abstand der Knoten ist ein n\u00fctzlicher Indikator f\u00fcr den Wachstumsstil. Eng beieinander liegende Knoten bedeuten normalerweise eine k\u00fcrzere, dichtere Pflanze; lange Internodien deuten auf eine gr\u00f6\u00dfere, st\u00e4rker gestreckte Pflanze hin. Dies ist oft das Erste, was einem erfahrenen Z\u00fcchter auff\u00e4llt, wenn er einen Bl\u00fcteraum betritt.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0F\u00e4cherbl\u00e4tter.<\/strong>\u00a0Die gro\u00dfen, ikonischen siebenbl\u00e4ttrigen Bl\u00e4tter sind die Solarzellen der Pflanze. Sie enthalten fast keine Cannabinoide und werden normalerweise bei der Ernte abgeschnitten, aber sie sind der Motor der Photosynthese und der erste Ort, an dem sich Stress zeigt (Gelbf\u00e4rbung, Kr\u00e4uselung, Fleckenbildung). Aus diesem Grund sind die F\u00e4cherbl\u00e4tter eines der Hauptmerkmale, die ein Z\u00fcchter t\u00e4glich beobachtet. Sie sind im Grunde das Armaturenbrett der Pflanze, und jede Ver\u00e4nderung der Farbe, Haltung oder Textur ist ein fr\u00fches Signal daf\u00fcr, dass etwas in der Umgebung (Licht, N\u00e4hrstoffe, Wasser, Sch\u00e4dlinge oder Krankheiten) Aufmerksamkeit erfordert.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Blumen.<\/strong>\u00a0Beim Reifegrad entwickelt die Pflanze\u00a0Blumen<\/strong>\u00a0an den Spitzen seiner Zweige. Jede Cannabispflanze produziert Bl\u00fcten, aber wie diese Bl\u00fcten aussehen und was sie enthalten, h\u00e4ngt ganz davon ab, ob die Pflanze m\u00e4nnlich oder weiblich ist. Diese Unterscheidung ist der Punkt, an dem Cannabis aufh\u00f6rt, wie ein gew\u00f6hnliches Kraut auszusehen, und anf\u00e4ngt, wie eine medizinische Pflanze auszusehen, und darum geht es im n\u00e4chsten Abschnitt.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Das ikonische siebenbl\u00e4ttrige Cannabissamenblatt ist ein Marketingbild, keine botanische Regel. Cannabisfolletten k\u00f6nnen reichen von 3 bis 13 Finger<\/strong> Abh\u00e4ngig von Genetik, Pflanzenalter und Position an der Pflanze haben die allerersten \u201cechten Bl\u00e4tter\u201d, die ein S\u00e4mling produziert, fast immer nur eine einzige Blattspreite.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Cannabis ist eine von einer kleinen Gruppe von Pflanzen, die nat\u00fcrlicherweise\u00a0zweih\u00e4usig<\/strong>, bedeutet, dass einzelne Pflanzen entweder m\u00e4nnlich oder weiblich sind und nicht beide Fortpflanzungssysteme an derselben Pflanze tragen. Diese einfache biologische Eigenart erweist sich als eine der kommerziell wichtigsten Tatsachen in der gesamten Branche.<\/p>

\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0M\u00e4nnliche Pflanzen<\/strong>\u00a0produzieren kleine, Pollen gef\u00fcllte S\u00e4cke an den Knoten, ungef\u00e4hr in der Form und Gr\u00f6\u00dfe eines Reiskorns. Wenn diese S\u00e4cke reifen, spalten sie sich und setzen Pollen in die Luft frei. M\u00e4nnliche Bl\u00fcten enthalten\u00a0sehr geringe Mengen an Cannabinoiden<\/a>\u00a0und werden nicht zur Herstellung von Medikamenten verwendet. Ihre Aufgabe im kommerziellen Umfeld ist rein genetischer Natur: sie sollen weibliche Tiere in einem kontrollierten Zuchtprogramm befruchten oder entfernt werden, bevor sie dies tun k\u00f6nnen.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Female plants<\/strong>\u00a0produce the dense, resinous flowers we usually call\u00a0Knospen<\/strong>. These flowers are where almost all of the plant’s cannabinoids and terpenes are concentrated, and they are what medical extracts, dried flower prescriptions and finished cannabis products are made from. In a commercial cultivation environment, the entire crop is female.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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If a male plant is left in a room of females, it will pollinate them. Once a female is pollinated, she stops directing her energy into resin production and starts making seeds instead. Seeded flower is\u00a0dramatically less potent, less aromatic and less valuable<\/a>\u00a0than seedless flower. This is why professional medical cultivators go to significant lengths, growing from feminised seeds or clones, sexing every plant early, and removing any males immediately, to keep their rooms completely male-free.<\/p>

A quick related term you will hear on any cultivation floor:\u00a0sinsemilla<\/strong>, from the Spanish\u00a0sin semilla<\/em>\u00a0meaning “without seed”, is the name for the high-potency, unpollinated female flower that medical and premium markets are built on. Every gram of medical cannabis dispensed in Europe today is essentially sinsemilla.<\/p>

There is one further complication worth knowing. Under environmental stress (heat, light interruption, physical damage), a female plant can occasionally produce a small number of male flowers on her own tissue. This is called\u00a0Hermaphroditismus<\/strong>, and it can pollinate a room from within. Preventing it is one of the reasons a well-run medical grow environment is so obsessive about consistency in temperature, humidity and light cycle.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The word “sinsemilla”<\/strong> entered English through 1970s Californian growers importing genetics and techniques from Mexico. Today it is used matter-of-factly in European medical cultivation documents, quietly carrying its Spanish grammar into pharmaceutical-grade paperwork.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Now that we know why we care about the female plant, it is worth looking at what her flowers are actually made of. This is where most of the vocabulary you will see on lab reports, cultivation SOPs and product packaging lives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Cola.<\/strong>\u00a0Die\u00a0cola<\/strong>\u00a0(from the Spanish for “tail”) is the\u00a0cluster of flowers that forms at the top of a main stem or branch<\/a>. The largest, densest cola sits at the very top of the plant and is often called the\u00a0apical cola<\/strong>\u00a0or main cola; smaller secondary colas grow along the tips of side branches. Colas develop where the plant receives the most light, and they carry the highest concentrations of cannabinoids and resin.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Bracts (often called calyxes).<\/strong>\u00a0Zoom into a cola and it is really a stack of small, tear-shaped structures called\u00a0bracts<\/strong>. Each bract is a leaf-like envelope that surrounds and protects the plant’s ovule (the potential seed site). Bracts are, technically speaking,\u00a0the most cannabinoid-rich tissue on the whole plant<\/a>, because they are absolutely coated in trichomes. Most people in the industry casually call them\u00a0calyxes<\/strong>, which is\u00a0botanically incorrect but universally understood<\/a>, so both terms show up in industry writing.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What everyone in the industry calls a “calyx”<\/strong> is technically the wrong word. In real botany, a\u00a0calyx\u00a0is the little green cup at the base of a flower<\/strong> (think of the leafy part that holds up a rose). Cannabis flowers do not actually have one. The tear-shaped piece we point at is really a\u00a0bract<\/strong>, a modified leaf that wraps around the seed site<\/strong>. The mix-up stuck simply because early cultivators borrowed the closest-sounding word they knew, and by the time botanists corrected them it was already on every grow guide and product label.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Pistils and stigmas.<\/strong>\u00a0From each bract, two thin hair-like structures poke out. These are the\u00a0stigmas<\/strong>, and together with the ovule below they form the plant’s female reproductive organ, the\u00a0pistil<\/strong>. Their evolutionary job is to catch airborne pollen. In young flowers they are bright white and stand straight up; as the flower matures they curl inward and change colour, first to yellow, then to orange, then to red-brown. That colour shift is one of the\u00a0oldest visual cues cultivators use to judge ripeness<\/a>\u00a0and decide when to harvest.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Sugar leaves.<\/strong>\u00a0Between and around the bracts, a set of small pointed leaves grow directly out of the flower itself. These are the\u00a0sugar leaves<\/strong>, named for the frosty-looking coating of trichome resin that gives them a sugar-dusted appearance. Unlike fan leaves, sugar leaves carry meaningful cannabinoid content. In post-harvest processing they are usually trimmed off the flower and set aside for\u00a0extract production<\/strong>\u00a0rather than discarded, because they are chemically valuable in their own right.<\/p>

Put all of that together and a mature cola is a densely packed architectural stack: bracts holding ovules, stigmas reaching out to catch pollen that will never come (in a well-managed room), and sugar leaves shading the whole thing, all of it coated in the trichomes we will look at next.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0The colour change of stigmas from white to orange-brown is caused by the same class of pigments that turn autumn leaves red. It is largely a signal of maturity rather than a sign of chemistry, which is why serious cultivators judge harvest timing with a microscope aimed at the trichomes rather than by eyeballing the stigmas alone.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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If the female flower is the medically valuable part of the plant, then\u00a0Trichome<\/strong>\u00a0are the medically valuable part of the flower. Everything else, roots, stems, leaves, bracts, is essentially infrastructure to hold up and support these microscopic factories.<\/p>

Trichomes are tiny, mushroom-shaped glands on the surface of the bracts, sugar leaves and (to a lesser extent) fan leaves near the flower. Each one is a self-contained little bioreactor:\u00a0it synthesises and stores the cannabinoids and terpenes we covered in Article 3<\/a>\u00a0inside its bulbous head. Under the right light, mature trichomes give a flower its unmistakable frosty, glittering appearance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Not all trichomes are the same, and it is worth knowing the three main types because they show up in cultivation notes, harvest decisions and lab reports.<\/p>

\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Bulbous trichomes<\/strong>\u00a0are the smallest, measuring only\u00a0around 10 to 15 microns<\/a>, invisible to the naked eye. They cover most of the aerial parts of the plant and contribute a modest amount to overall cannabinoid and terpene production.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Capitate-sessile trichomes<\/strong>\u00a0are the mid-sized ones, around\u00a020 to 30 microns<\/a>\u00a0across, shaped like tiny mushrooms with a bulbous head sitting on a very short base. They produce cannabinoids throughout the plant’s life but at lower concentrations than the largest type.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Capitate-stalked trichomes<\/strong>\u00a0are the workhorses. They are\u00a0up to 500 microns tall<\/a>, just about visible without a microscope, and consist of a long stalk topped by a bulbous head. A\u00a02019 University of British Columbia study<\/a>\u00a0confirmed that these are the richest source of THC- and CBD-producing enzymes, and the largest producers of terpenes. When people talk about “the trichomes” that give a flower its potency and aroma, they almost always mean these.<\/p>

Ripeness is judged mostly by looking at those capitate-stalked trichomes under a microscope. As the plant matures, the heads shift from clear (early, still developing) to milky-white (peak cannabinoid content, ideal for most medical use) and finally to amber (over-ripe, cannabinoids beginning to degrade into more sedating byproducts). That colour progression is what lets a skilled cultivator time a harvest to within a couple of days.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Trichomes are not unique to cannabis. Most flowering plants have some form of them. What is unusual is what cannabis chose to do with them. In cannabis, trichomes evolved as a defence system, producing sticky, bitter, aromatic compounds to deter grazing animals and insects. Those same defensive compounds turned out to be the cannabinoids and terpenes that now anchor a multi-billion-euro medical industry. In other words, an entire European market is built on the plant’s chemical warfare against caterpillars.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Each piece of the plant we have just walked through maps directly onto a specific job, decision or document in the modern European industry:<\/p>

\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Cultivators<\/strong>\u00a0live and die by node spacing, canopy structure, sexing, hermaphroditism and trichome maturation. Every one of those is an anatomy call, made daily, that determines a room’s final yield and cannabinoid profile.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Extraction technicians<\/strong>\u00a0decide which parts of the plant go into which process. Flower and sugar leaves are treated very differently from stems and fan leaves. Understanding where the trichomes actually sit is what separates a valuable extract from an expensive mistake.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Quality control and laboratory teams<\/strong>\u00a0rely on anatomical vocabulary to describe samples on a certificate of analysis, to distinguish flower material from trim, and to justify why one batch tests higher than another.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Prescribers and pharmacists<\/strong>, particularly in Germany, the UK, Portugal and the Netherlands, increasingly need to understand product formats (flower, extract, oil, granulate) and where they came from anatomically, to answer patient questions credibly.
\ud83d\udfe3\u00a0Compliance and regulatory professionals<\/strong>\u00a0working under\u00a0EU-GMP<\/strong>\u00a0und\u00a0GACP<\/strong>\u00a0rules read cultivation and processing SOPs where every one of these terms shows up. Getting the plant’s biology wrong on paper is one of the fastest ways to fail an audit.<\/p>

That is why anatomy sits so close to the top of this series. It is not an academic detour. It is the shared language that lets a Portuguese grower, a Dutch extractor, a German pharmacist and a UK compliance officer talk about the same plant and mean the same things.<\/p>

In the next articles in our Cannabis 101 series we build on this foundation, moving into the taxonomy debate (sativa<\/strong>,\u00a0indica<\/strong>,\u00a0ruderalis<\/strong>\u00a0und\u00a0cultivars<\/strong>), the cultivation lifecycle from seed to harvest, the different product formats these flowers become, and finally the quality systems that turn the whole thing into a regulated European medicine.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Every cannabis plant is built around five general structures shared regardless of sex:\u00a0roots<\/strong>\u00a0(a taproot for seed-grown plants, plus a wider fibrous network), the\u00a0stem<\/strong>,\u00a0nodes and internodes<\/strong>,\u00a0fan leaves<\/strong>und\u00a0Blumen<\/strong>. In female plants, the flowers develop into resinous\u00a0Knospen<\/strong>\u00a0made up of\u00a0bracts<\/strong>\u00a0(often called calyxes),\u00a0Stempel<\/strong>\u00a0with their\u00a0stigmas<\/strong>und\u00a0sugar leaves<\/strong>, all coated in microscopic\u00a0Trichome<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Cannabis is\u00a0zweih\u00e4usig<\/strong>, meaning each plant is either male or female.\u00a0M\u00e4nnliche Pflanzen<\/strong>\u00a0produce pollen sacs and very few cannabinoids and are not used to make medicine.\u00a0Female plants<\/strong>\u00a0produce the dense, resinous flowers where almost all the plant’s cannabinoids and terpenes are concentrated. Every medical cultivation crop in Europe is female.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Trichome<\/strong>\u00a0are microscopic mushroom-shaped glands on the surface of the female flower that synthesise and store the plant’s\u00a0Cannabinoide<\/strong>\u00a0und\u00a0Terpene<\/strong>. They come in three main types: bulbous, capitate-sessile and capitate-stalked. The largest capitate-stalked type produces most of the THC, CBD and terpenes, and is what a cultivator watches under a microscope to time the harvest.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A\u00a0cola<\/strong>\u00a0is the cluster of flowers at the top of a main stem or branch. The largest one, at the very top of the plant, is called the\u00a0main<\/strong>\u00a0oder\u00a0apical cola<\/strong>. Colas develop where the plant gets the most light and carry the highest concentrations of resin.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Not really. In classical botany, the\u00a0calyx<\/strong>\u00a0is the ring of green sepals at the base of a flower. Cannabis does not have a true calyx in that sense. The tear-shaped structure the industry calls a “calyx” is actually a\u00a0bract<\/strong>, a modified leaf that wraps the ovule and is coated in trichomes. Both terms are used interchangeably in practice, but “bract” is the botanically accurate one.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sinsemilla<\/strong>\u00a0(Spanish for “without seed”) is the term for high-potency, unpollinated female flower. It is the standard for all medical and premium cannabis, because a pollinated female stops producing resin and diverts her energy into making seeds instead.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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