Accidental breeding grow

So i just finished 4 strains from ILGM (Blackberry kush BBK / purple kush PK / banana kush BK and purple haze PHZ). During early flower i noticed a few 'bananas' indicating the BBK was herm (was well into female flowers before they presented). I thought i castrated em all but one day when i went to water and bumped stem pollen dispersed everywhere.
I let them run their course and just figured id get a few seeds in the batch, the buds still looked frosty as hell and had great fruity terpene profiles. Anyways finally harvested it (ran about 2-3 weeks longer than 'flower time' as ILGM stated for the strains) and the whole buds are just covered in seeds (like tiny popcorn nugs will have 10-20 easy). Id say 95% are high quality viable seeds from what ive gone through thus far. I am seeking validation of new strain names from the seeds produced and on my decision of breaking it all down to shake / sift over the trimming screen, separate the seeds / keif and shake (will probably just make butter with leftover shake maybe roll a few joints). So far ive worked only the smallest buds of each strain and have kept the larger colas because the bud just looks nice and it hurt a bit to think of just grinding it down to shake.
So the blackberry kush was the herm and here are the new potential genetic names for the girls that got impregnated
PK seed will be Purpleberry Kush (PK plant on its own was super fruity and frosty)
BK seed wil be Banana berry smoothie (this one was less berry fruit and more sour skunky interesting to see what the blackberry does to it)
PHZ seed will be purpleberry haze
I will probably have several hundred seeds from each plant. Am i correct in my assumption that there is a high probability these seeds will be fem?
any other suggestions for how to process the harvest?
IM gonna test the seeds at some point regardless (or should i just stick to the known that i still have seeds for)?

I attached a few pics of plants in late flower and after harvest for reference..
 

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OldMedUser

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There's a high probability they will be fem and hermie as they came from a hermie plant. I would not want to be the recipient of such seeds but you can breed the hermie out of the seeds you get but it's a lot of work.

I toss such seeds in municipal planter boxes and random strangers gardens in the spring just for shits and giggles. :)

:peace:
 

Johnny Lawrence

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There's a high probability they will be fem and hermie as they came from a hermie plant. I would not want to be the recipient of such seeds but you can breed the hermie out of the seeds you get but it's a lot of work.

I toss such seeds in municipal planter boxes and random strangers gardens in the spring just for shits and giggles. :)

:peace:
Not always true. Several years ago, I had a White Widow go herm on me. It wasn't bad, just a few nanners, but she was way in the back of a difficult to access room and so went unnoticed till harvest.

The Widows shared space with some GG#4 plants, and I was thrilled to not find a single seed while trimming. This room averaged roughly 3 to 4 pounds, and about a month or so later, when I was getting to the bottom of the bin, I noticed a single, perfect, solitary seed. Popped her, vegged her back out, took clones, then put her into flower. The strain has been a favorite of my friends and family for a while now. I've never had one go herm in the 6 or 8 years that I've been running it.
 

Wizzlebiz

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Tossing nanners can happen for a variety of reason but most of the time it is stress or last ditch effort to reproduce.

Those seeds could be great or they could not be.

Also don't run around throwing weed seeds in people's gardens that's just really fucking stupid.
 
Yeah so im in VA and it was legalized in july 2021 and you can grow 4 per household. My first grows came from some purp punch i got discounted because... My guy new the grower and he used fem seeds but ran into herm that pollenated so it was very seedy. I planted 8 (4 at my spot and 4 at parents) of those seeds and every one was female and they all came out great without any issue of herm.
I wouldnt go throwing in randos gardens but will probably throw some out in the appalachian wilderness when i go for hikes. Will also offer to friends, just sent quite a few back with fam members after holidays.
So my thought on the bbk going herm is i often leave tent open for better air flow etc. One morning i came down and my wife had left the basement light (this happened twice) on so that was likely the stressor. I figured the BBK wiuld have higher probability of herm Gene so want intending on using those seeds (maybe some "friends" who've fucked me over in past ) but thought that the other strains should have better probability.

I have found fewest in he PK so far as it was on the side of tent with air vent and furthest from the bbk, so less of pollen would have reached it. Half joint put me the fuck out last night... And it's about bedtime now. Thanks for the advice.
 
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