dokebi
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breeders use all kinds of cheap tricks to feminize seeds. If these seeds where produced from "stress induced" hermies it is likely the offspring will be more likely to hermie under similar conditions (essentially the feminized seeds, although directly selected for the lack of a y chromosome, have been indirectly selected to hermie under whatever stress condition the breeder used.)
The rule of thumb to avoid hermies is stability and consistency. Your seeds should be fine. More likely to make male flowers under similar stress conditions? definitely. But a complete waste? not at all. Something that can be appreciated about your seed stock is that as long as they came from genetics that were stabilize (not an F1 or random cross, but actually bred for uniformity) your seeds should be slightly more uniform than the original stock. Also, as long as they were feminized before, all of your seeds should be females as well.
If you need the crop don't hesitate to flower those clones, but be sure your grow room is stable and consistent (definitely try to figure out various potential sources of stress on the previous crop and try to minimize those potentials). For the future, look for better genetics that have been bred by long term breeders.
Anybody can get pollen mixed in with females then call themselves a breeder in order to make money by selling seeds or get caught up in the excitement of new crosses; but, its the guys that truly love the plant and that dedicate themselves day in and day out that are offering consistently good seed stock and uniform stable genetics.
Soma for example has sometimes allows plants to flower past peak ripeness and noticed that most genetics will produce sparse male flowers in the twilight of flowering life, as if in a last ditch effort to pass genetic material on to the next generation. This method does provide less pollen for potential crosses than other methods of male flower induction, but it does not genetically predisposition the daughter generation to have stress induced male flowers. Extra work, time, and patience are all required on the part of the breeder to produce a quality product, especially feminized seeds.
In today's market it is also required of the grower to put forth the extra work, time, and patience to find the breeders who really care.
Do you have a recommendation to a site or a breeder?
