(A) The transfer, transportation, sale, processing, utilization, planting and/or cultivation of seeds or plants of non-feminized cannabis seed is prohibited.
(B) Licensees are limited to planting and growing female clones or using feminized seed.
(C) Since it is possible that 1 of 2,000 feminized seeds can produce a male plant, licensees are responsible for removing male plants as soon as they are identified. Male plants present pollen sacks after several weeks of growth, are tall and slender with few leaves surrounding the flowers, while female plants are short and stocky with many leaves at each terminal inflorescence.
(D) Plants with both male and female flowers, developed through breeding and selection are prohibited.
(E) Regardless of their plant prorogation strategy environmental stress may result in a higher concentration of male flowers, particularly during hot/wet spells, at the commencement of flowering, and nearing harvest. Accordingly, it is the duty of a licensees to monitor their crop and remove and destroy any male plants immediately upon detection. See Fig. 1 attached to Ord. 2021-03.
(F) Any property with more than .05% male to female plant density shall be prohibited and all cannabis plants (the crop) on that property are required to be immediate destroyed by the licensee.
(G) As a condition of obtaining a license the licensee consents, agrees and understands that if he/she fail to immediately destroy the crop more than .05% male to female plant density the County of Valencia, after providing 48 hours' notice, is authorized to enter upon the licensee's land to do so and assess the cost to the licensee.
(Ord. 2021-03, passed 7-21-2021)