there are no buds on males. Just clusters of male flowers that are 90% pollen, nothing smokable there. The leaves have a very miniscule amount of thc, but nothing worth smoking.
I had a girl once argue with me the only smokable plants were the males...perplexing to say the least. She said she only smokes the finest male plants...once I saw her weed I was inclined to believe here...it was brownish in color and looked liked dried leaves. She said her dad grew it and it was the dankest shit you could smoke...It looked worse than mexi regs.
males produce thc and you can smoke it or add/save the leaves for the rest of your trim to make hash or another concentrate. if you dont smoke everyday or like every other day all day you will definitely feel the thc from a male plant.
males dont make seeds. keep reading. females grow buds it is a flowering process. the male plant grows pods. these pods break open and release pollen. when this pollen lands on the white hairs of a female flower it retracts into the calyx and turns into a seed. male plants have very small amounts of thc barely traceable. most people save them in the freezer so when they harvest the females and and make isohash they will add the males with the females clippings. but yeah the pods are not buds and all they will do is give you a headache