hermie seeds

Trousers

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It most likely "hermied" due to stress. If it was stress the seeds will be feminized.
If it was an actual hermaphrodite with both X and Y chromosomes, the seeds will either produce males, females or hermaphrodites.
 

Jogro

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It most likely "hermied" due to stress. If it was stress the seeds will be feminized.
If it was an actual hermaphrodite with both X and Y chromosomes, the seeds will either produce males, females or hermaphrodites.
By defintion, every male cannabis plant has X and Y chromosomes. Edit: Or at least gender-specific (ie X and Y) chromosome regions, that probably amount to the same thing.

By convention, a plant hermaphrodite is any dioecious plant that expresses both male and female flowers. Note that every cannabis plant, regardless of gender, has the genetic ability to create male flowers, just that in most "medical" lines intended for indoor growth, the actual tendency of plants to do so has been suppressed by selective breeding.

To answer the question, ceeds that arise from the cross of a female plant and a second female plant with male flowers (a "hermie") will be female since neither parent can pass on a "Y" chromosome to create male offspring.

Since the tendency to "go hermie" is genetic, these seeds may inherit that tendency as well.
 
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