Hi Shaun, I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's the worst thing that could have happened. Some say that the offspring from hermies can be true females and males, but the truth is that traits are passed on from parents to offspring, meaning that the offsring of a hermie are more likely to show hermie traits than to be true sexes. They may well show the tri trait, but who really wants hermies of any structure in their grow room? The rumour of tri's being more likely to be male than anything else was started by an old grower and seed breeder called BOG. It's completely untrue. There are still one or two members on this board who will tell any lies they can to knock tri's, mainly because they don't have them. The truth is that the tri trait is like wide leaves or colours, its just another pheno type expressing itself and is completely unrelated to sex or quality or anything else. In order to get the triat to show, I had to create instability in the breeding line, (in order to see as mainy phenotype expressions as I could) in order to generate enough tri's to make selections from. I am now trying to recreate stability within the one pheno expression. The problem is that when selecting for one phenotype, it's difficult to also select for other phenotypes at the same time. Once I have a stable tri line, then I can start to select for other pheno types within that phenotype, and so sometimes I have used less than desirable tri plants to breed with in order to pass on the tri trait over other traits. It is easier to improve quality in a line of seeds than it is to generate additional branches per node. So even when looking at my tri's it may seem as if tri's are sometimes weaker plants. The truth is within any line of seeds you will get weak and strong specimins, most breeders will only post pics of their best plants in order to increase sales, but since that's not my aim, I can just post every plant I grow without worrying about any of that. But one thing that I would never ever accept in any plant is a ball on a female or a famle hair on a male. Fortunately I don't ever see any hermies in any of my plants, regardless of lighting times or stress. The environmental factors may help to keep a hermie in check, but what environmental factors wont ever do is turn a true female or male into a hermie. Hermies are born from hermie parents, and so using hermie parents to breed is asking for hermie offspring. Just as using tri parents is asking for tri offspring. But the two are certainly not related. I've now grown out over a hundred tri plants, and not one of them have been hermies, and the male female distribution is 50:50 just like it is in bifoliar examples. If the triats were linked in anyway, then I would have spotted it a long time ago and given up on my tri quest, but here I am, still working away. Anyway, sorry to hear of your bad news. I don't know who gave you the bad info, but it's always better to ask someone with experience in the field of your enquiry, which I'm glad you thought to do. I hope that's of some help to you.
