PJ Diaz
Well-Known Member
Good morning. When a plant is forced to create balls out of stress the hermie trait becomes prevalent in the pollen it produces. Meaning it has a higher rate of creating hermie plants when the pollen is given to a female.
Nanners is a natural way of a plants last ditch effort to reproduce itself. Most of the time nanners produce viable pollen that can be used to make female seeds. This pollen is less apt to produce hermie plants. Plants can be stressed into nanners as well but that becomes a strain related thing for how much stress is needed.
For example I had a couple of blueberry big bud that threw nanners due to letting it run longer than needed. That was on purpose.
The other heat stress induced. Not on purpose. Both nannered. I have the pollen for both to solo cup some ww x blueberry seeds.
TLDR: Hermie plants tend to create hermie seeds. Nannered plants are used as a viable way to create female seeds without the hermie trait being bred into them.
The idea that stressing a plant in any way, in an effort to produce male flowers on a female plant, fundamentally alters the genetics of the donor pollen to somehow make the offspring more likely to exhibit hermaphroditic expressions is complete and utter nonsense.Stressing your plants in anyway to produce pollen sacks will undoubtedly produce seeds that will be more likely to hermaphrodite if you use that pollen. Genetically superior plants will not herm or "throw balls" no matter how much you stress them. Try growing out some of the seeds you've created with the pollen from your stressed female plants and then come back to this thread.
I do agree with the notion that naturally hermaphroditic plants or plants when herm easily under low levels of stress are more likely to have offspring which exhibit similar traits, however those same traits would be apparent in the offspring irregardless of how the plant was sexually reversed. Look guys this is genetics 101. Science, not bro science. Stress on a plant does not fundamentally alter the plants DNA. Fact.