First hermie experience, possibly a silver lining (seeds)?

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Rob Machado

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Well after a number of relatively successful very small indoor grows, guess I was overdue to have one go a bit bad. Basically, had some high temps and prob some stress turn one of my ladies hermie. Didnt catch it until the damage was done and all of my feminized girls got seeded including the hermie. Let it finish its run, and now have a fair number of seeds with "new" genetics. The hermie was Headband, and this crossed with Girls Scout Cookies, G13 Haze, Pineapple, and a few others that I now have a fair chunk of seeds from each. So with the background out of the way, few q's for any with experience here:

1. Are these new seeds "feminized" or will I end up with a mix of M/F?
2. Any higher probability that I will end up with more hermies from these seeds? SInce I am pretty sure it was stress induced didnt know if that was more favorable than a hermie that was genetically predisposed?
3. Taking a break but anything I need to do with my room before next round? Assumed that pollen has a limited life but wanted to see what experts here know.
3. Any reason not to grow these puppies? Any other thoughts on this for me?

Thanks a lot, definitely learned I need to spend way more time inspecting. It was a tiny handful of male flowers I ended up finding and they were tiny...easy to miss for sure.
 
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zoiz

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I was seriously searching for this question and found your 3 minute old post.

I just read on growweedblog or something, that hermie offspring are more likely to have hermie traits.

Maybe for properly hermaphrodite plants.

But if bananas form, which is a stress induced phenomena, on a female, maybe it's not a gene drive towards more hermaphroditism. I'd be really interested to know if it does increase the chances of bananaring in the offspring.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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try em and see what they do, may find a good pheno in there.
its been my experience that you'll have better luck sprouting them if you put them in a tupperware container in the fridge with some rice in it for about a month. the cold tricks them into thinking they laid on the ground all winter, and its time to wake up, and the rice absorbs any moisture they give off, hardens them up.
im not sure what the life span of pollen is, but all you really have to do is turn off the lights, mist the whole room with a little water and let it dry. that should neutralize any pollen left.
 
WindyCityKush

WindyCityKush

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I agree with Michmeds, you might have hit a jackpot buddy.
Grow some of them and if they all turn out female, you're good to go. Just keep an eye on that first run and obviously anything you wouldn't want seeded shouldn't be in that first run
 
cplantsalot

cplantsalot

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I just ran headband from Cali connections and 2 out of 6 hermied on me...ran another batch no hermits from cc and ran a separate batch of the hermi seeds currently not one herm not sure if I just got lucky or if that's just how it worksThese are the hermie seedsimage.jpeg
 
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