new and more seeds cant be all bad.
just to bump this with an update:
yeah, definately have some seeds... but thank god the tops are all still in good shape
i have done a lot of reading and question asking to try to find out what i did that caused the plants to stress, and i think i've figured it out, although i'll be the first to say i'm not 100% sure.
my theory: stress was caused by pruning, with sheers, of the lower limbs that were non producers. bear in mind that my seeds were fem'd to start with so they were easier to stress.
the balls must have grown lower, under the canopy. following the airflow, i can kind of slueth where i think it came from.
i'll probably end up with a good fifty - sixty seeds, and because they are from a hermie, i think they will all be femmed (which is great and all, but that means they will also be very likely to stress again under the slightest thing, sigh)
i am hoping to avoid repeating this by not pruning once the plant reaches it's bloom cycle, only pruning in veg.