Cannabis pollination... What to look for and how to correct.
Pollen typically comes from the pollen sacs of a male plant. Male plants spray pollen everywhere when their flowers are mature. Sometimes female cannabis plants will produce pollen known as herming (hermaphrodite) due to genetics or stress. Any source of pollen, whether the plant is male or female, can pollinate buds in the vicinity and cause seedy buds. If you’ve found seeds in your buds, it happened while the plant was growing. Either the grower didn’t identify and remove all the male plants before they release pollen or a herm was involved that self-pollinated or pollinated other buds in the growing area.
Seeds in your buds aren’t good or bad. They are simply the result of pollination while the buds are growing. A few seeds here and there won’t make much difference in potency, though potency may be lower if the buds are very seedy. The main problem with seeds in weed is that you are getting less smokeable bud for the amount of total mass there. If buds are seedless, you get more bang for your buck. Seedless buds are known to be the highest quality and most potent type of weed. Seedy weed is fine to smoke, though you should remove the seeds if possible they have no THC and will pop if you smoke them. Unless there are tons of seeds, bud potency is unlikely to be affected.