Hi Duchieman, well it is a broad answer but one I think that is actually straight forward. Is it worthwhile growing seeds from a hermied plant I guess. And a lot of people will say no, but in my experience it totally can be.
I think the general concensus is that stress leads to hermaphroditic tendencies, I agree but really only in the very worse case scenarios. My experience from herm pollen is that if it pollenates another herm plant or itself then the seeds can still be used but will also always show herm signs (not to say that you can't use them if you know what you are doing) The pollen from a herm plant used on another plant without these tendencies is often producing reasonably good females. I have never had a male from this method. I am not heavily down on the pollen from a herm plant but due to the plant being mainly female it does not seem to produce regular pollen.
A herm plant if kept under a watchfull eye up to the 4th week of flower should not cause problems.
I think if your plant has hermed it is because it has a tendency to herm, not due to environmental conditions, unless every single plant in your tent/set up herms it would not make sense to blame environmental reasons. I think genetics. I fyou know you are getting a plant with this tendency, then you can watch out and enjoy the results. It's when it's put out as something else that starts causing problems. I think a lot of breeder are out there selling feminized seeds, that are basically herm...no fingers pointed.
Hope that helps. I hope to get more into the science as I progress.
Peace,
DST
