Cultivating a flowering male plant.

[Scroggy B]

Hello folks,
I've stumbled upon some questions which aren't easy to find answers to. Hope you can help me out. I have a small home setup two lovely plants growing inside a tent. I had 3, but one of them is a male! And that's a shame because it was of a very potent strain.. Anyway, I had this male in the beginning of flowering removed from the tent. I'm interested in producing some seeds of this mystery strain with the two I have - Silver Haze and Cheese. To do that I need to keep him flowering until pollen is ready to collect. So the main questions are:
1. How long does a male take to produce pollen?
2. Does a male require the same conditions (photoperiod, light intensity etc.) as a female to produce quality pollen? Can I save some $ and keep him in a simple cabinet with CFL?
3. In the meantime, the plant is outside the tent but inside the house. Can it be accidentally stressed and become a hermie?
4. I got the seed from a friend in a baggy so it is bagseed. Is it possible that it already holds the hermie trait which will be passed to the seeds it will produce?

Any help will be appreciated =)

 

[its trypp]

Well, the only way to be sure if it hermed is to usually check each node. Don't quote me, but from my understanding a plant going herm is usually on a part of the plant, not the whole plant. This is because female plants will herm to self pollinate due to a lack of a male plant pollinating them. (Not all females will herm obviously and feminized seeds seem to be much more susceptible to this happening.)

I don't know if a male plant will ever herm, as it doesn't know if its pollen is or isn't reaching them sexy female pistils.

And, logic would say that the same growing conditions will yield similar results for male/female plants. In the wild they are in the same conditions, so I fail to see why it would be much, if at all, different.

Hopefully this helps, and if I am wrong in anything I am sure someone will come along to correct me.