looking for a difinitive answer on hermie seeds

[Rob547]

So I have 2 plants that in the end half of flowering. One is hermied pretty harcore. Timer was messed up throughout veg + some light leaks in flower (hopefully now fixed). It sexed itself in veg...was a female for a while but then started to hermie and grow seeds.

The other has been going good, about 10 days behind the first. I can see a few seeds have developed but nothing major.

So my question to all ya'll (looking a definitive answer or at least some sort of popular opinion) is.....Will seeds from a hermie be hermie by genetics? Or will it have some sort of mix of male/female/(hermie?) seeds? I believe they were female by genetics, but got corrupted by my laziness. The first one is coming down tomorrow, and I gotta decide what to do with all these seeds.

Thanks alot ICMAG

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[Endo]

the way i understand it is.. the seeds from a hermi plant will have a very very very good chance of carrying on the hermi trait. however if your second plant was pollenated by the hermi plant, they have a very very very good chance of being feminized seeds. someone slap me if im totally off base.

 

[Dr Dog]

the way i understand it is.. the seeds from a hermi plant will have a very very very good chance of carrying on the hermi trait. however if your second plant was pollenated by the hermi plant, they have a very very very good chance of being feminized seeds. someone slap me if im totally off base.

You are right, there is no definitive answer, but seeds from a hermi plant will have hermi tendencies, and could either grow out to be a straight male or a female or both, it is a coin toss

 

[Guest]

According to RC clarke...marijuana botany

A wild assed hemie should probably not be used to produce all female plants...

He talks about using females that produce a few male flowers....

Under these circumstances he says often 60-80% of the plants would be female the rest female hermie....if male flowers at the end flowering are used...or if stress is used to produce the male flowers... pg86-87

This however does not describe your situation.....

myself I would probably shit can the lot....

No pure male plants should be produced from these seeds...

 

[JackOneill]

I produced seeds by getting a female Kali Mist to hermie with a couple male sex parts late in flower and got a few seeds to carry on the genetics and man the seeds I planted from that sexual encounter are very vigorous and very healthy all female plants, 100%. All the seeds I have in my collection are pretty much produced by this method and they have all been female for me not a single male. Definitely don't use a haveily hermied plant though that will carry on those tendencies you ahve to force the hermie reaction by stressing the plant somewhat if it happens on its own it is weak genetics get rid of it.

 

[Endo]

genetic hermies would carry on the hermi trait but would stressed hermies? its not genetic if you think about it.

 

[Guest]

I think probably this is a genetic hermie...

he had two plants and only one turned....

the fact is...many genetic hermies are blamed on small issues when the plant was going to hermie anyway....

had this been a clone that didnt hermie in the seed plant.... then hermed due to light issues timer issues whatever then I might agree.....

 

[Endo]

So I have 2 plants that in the end half of flowering. One is hermied pretty harcore. Timer was messed up throughout veg + some light leaks in flower (hopefully now fixed). It sexed itself in veg...was a female for a while but then started to hermie and grow seeds.

sounds like stress

 

[JackOneill]

mine would have stayed female had I not stressed it, I purposely stressed it to encourage a couple pollen sacs and that is what happened. IF you get a plant that hermies with no real stress that you can speak of and it is all over the place then I would consider that plant to have bad genetics. Mine however are not and as I said have been 100% female with no hermie unless I want it to. Period. Cannabis as a plant has the ability to hermie to preserve its genetics. THeir whole goal is to propgate their species. If they have no males to speak of and things seem bleak environment wise they just make it so they can pollinate regardless. Even the strongest genetics in the world can be made to hermie.

 

[Rob547]

thanks for the many replies guys. very much appreciated

So....I believe they were just stressed, not genetically hermied, not 100% on that though. When they showed the first signs of sex they were both FEMALE.

However, the one thats coming down today is/was pretty heavily seeded, so what I got out of your replies is that this plant, of all of them will probably have the greatest probability of producing hermie seeds over female. But the others that have a few seeds are vice-versa, have a good chance of producing more female seeds? So should I just try to germinate a few seeds and grow them? Are they worth the effort/space?

 

[Endo]

anything is worth a try, i would try and grow a few of the ones from the plant that had no probs. see what happens. the other ones i would wait until its warmer and just plant them outside preferable next to a police station.