Hermie seeds

I've read a lot about the forums that hermie pollen/seeds make hermie plants. Does that mean the plant has an even higher chance to hermie since the parent has, or is it just the bad genetics are carried on that you want to eliminate? If it's the latter then will a plant that is difficult to hermie produce seeds which similarly are difficult to hermie?

Not necessarily. Hermie issues are often environmental, which would have no effect on progeny. I've had really good luck with "hermie" seeds, and have produced great plants with no real issues. All cannabis will hermie under the right conditions. I will sometimes let a plant run until it produces seeds. One that would normally finish in 8-9 weeks will often start producing seed if you go much beyond that. The most important thing is to keep an eye on your plants. A lot of times they will produce pollen sacks on the lowers first.

cindysid said:

Not necessarily. Hermie issues are often environmental, which would have no effect on progeny. I've had really good luck with "hermie" seeds, and have produced great plants with no real issues. All cannabis will hermie under the right conditions. I will sometimes let a plant run until it produces seeds. One that would normally finish in 8-9 weeks will often start producing seed if you go much beyond that. The most important thing is to keep an eye on your plants. A lot of times they will produce pollen sacks on the lowers first.

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Yeah most of the hermie issues seem to be some stress in flowering; light leaks, heat stress, whatever. And all the advice is to throw them seeds away because they're hermie seeds, but if it's just a hermie gene and not a hermie+% increase because it hermied, then just don't stress the plants from said pollen/seeds and you're golden?

I saved my favourite till last and thought I might reveg, but shes been through 3 days of trimming her sisters, lights on/lights off every other hour, chopped her main colas, etc. She is still pulling through. If she doesnt hermie soon, I might just let her go as you said and see if I get some pollen/seeds

The first cross I ever made was from a plant that developed nanners. I plucked the nanners and pollinated another strain with them. All the seeds were feminized and myself and a couple other people kept that strain going for about five years. None of the descendants of that cross showed any hermaphroditic tendencies. But nanners isn't a hermaphrodite. A hermaphrodite has both fully developed male and female parts. Some plants are prone to hermaphroditic tendencies due to the local environmental factors. The plant tries to survive. Seeds from those plants will not be feminized and future generations if grown under certain conditions will never show any hermaphroditic tendencies. Nanners in flower is not a hermaphrodite.

This is a hermaphrodite:

Nice "Shim" xtsho.

xtsho said:

...nanners isn't a hermaphrodite. A hermaphrodite has both fully developed male and female parts. Some plants are prone to hermaphroditic tendencies due to the local environmental factors. The plant tries to survive. Seeds from those plants will not be feminized and future generations if grown under certain conditions will never show any hermaphroditic tendencies. Nanners in flower is not a hermaphrodite.

This is a hermaphrodite:

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This. I made a cross using a true herm and the progeny does have higher herm rates. Made an accidental F2 with a female and what I hope was a true male. Have 2 plants in flower now. One is female and the other hasn't shown anything and that worries me about another herm. We'll see

Chemdawg was cuttings only for a very long time as it tended to hermie. Blackwater is another that seems to hermie quite easily.