A feminized seed, grows to a female plant--------

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flyawayclyde

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Heres a question I am sure that has been asked before, but I didn't see it in the 101 questions section.
So we plant up feminized seeds, and get female plants from them. Some will herm out on us, does that plant that gets pollenated. Will it produce feminized seeds again?
 
Tracker said:
A hermed female makes feminized seeds, BUT they will likely carry the genetic trait that caused the parent plant to herm.
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And with a lot of patience and careful watching, one can control how much of a pollen sac pollenated a female to control seed development?
 
Tracker said:
If a plant has the tendency to herm, it is very difficult to catch all the male parts or nanners. You will most likely miss at least one, if not several, and if their pollen is viable, they will make seeds.
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Okay,super.
Thank you for that knowledge, very valuable indeed....:cool:
 
A true hermaphrodite has pistils and balls in early flower.
This is genetic and any seed produced will be a hermaphrodite.
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Another so-called hermaphrodite is actually rodelization.........nanners that appear late in flower.
This is not genetic and any seed produced will be feminized.
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It depends on when the plant started to hermaphrodite....

If it's at the beginning of flower, the hermie trait will express more and more and more towards the end, leaving you with a plant full of male/female flowers.

If it hermies in the last week, you should be ok, but may end up with a few immature seeds.
 
Every few days I pull my feminized plants out of the tent to inspect for junk. I give a gentle flick w/middle finger to the main stem while shining a flashlight on it. Sucks when you see that golden dust drifting down. So far this has happened with only 2 plants out of about a dozen and late in flower, week 8 and 9. Had a bitch of a time hunting down all the junk and pretty sure I didn't get them all. Flick, locate, cut junk out, repeat. Still got a few immature seeds here and there.

EDIT: yes, Thank you @MickFoster for that info
 
It is important to distinguish between a real hermaphrodite and a monoecious hermaphrodite.

A real hermaphrodite will have both an X and a Y chromosome. Real hermaphrodites are uncommon, especially from good seed banks.
Monoecious hermaphrodites are much more common.

Monoecious hermaphrodites are often the result of poor environment as opposed to genetics.
Many growers over feed which is for some varieties enough to make a female plant produce male flowers.
Heat is also a very common cause of stress. This is how the "feminized seeds make hermies" myth began.

The resulting seeds from a monoecious hermaphrodite are certainly not useless. They are feminized seeds that are as likely to become monoecious hermaphrodites in the same conditions the parents did.

When a female plant (XX) produces male flowers, it is a normal and natural survival mechanism. The pollen only has X chromosomes, so it can not produce male plants.

Properly made feminized seeds make 99.999999999% female plants. That, along with the latest findings on cannabis sex determination, lead me to believe that a plant's sex is determined in the seed
 
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