Gotta say this is not filling me with confidence towards the Dairy Queen and Chernobyl freebies I have going right now, especially since I'm not particularly interested in keeping them, genetics-wise. While the breeding of polyhybrids can produce a superplant, with desirable characteristics from three or four different powerful strains, it is also likely (often more so) to produce plants that carry one or more undesirable characteristic from these plants. While it is true that plants often herm because of climate-related stress, it is also true that there is a genetic predisposition to do so, and while seed created by an intersex/herm plant will be more likely to carry that disposition, seed created by a herm plant pollinating itself is almost guaranteed to carry the disposition and will likely herm under stress that would normally not induce such a mutation. I'm definitely not saying they have used herms as parent stock in their genetic pool at TGA, but with all these complaints I'm definitely not saying they never have, or that they do not have polyhybrids that have herm prone plants somewhere in their genetic makeup. In addition, one problem with non-stabilized polyhybrids is that they carry a great deal of genetic instability in one generation, with a massive pool of potential genetics, which makes them prone to mutations such as intersex/herm behavior. I have actually yet to have a plant herm on me, but most of what I have grown has been cloned from first gen mothers of Sensi, Serious, MNS, and Next Generation seedstock.
edit: Good lord they use their space queen (romulan x cindy 99) genetics in fucking everything, but that seems to be the common thread running through all of the plants you folks seem to have had herm problems with. Does he have like one set of SQ male plant genetics and then just pollinate everyfuckingthing he can find with it, and then either just call it good or backcross it with the non-SQ parent? I'm not trying to be rude, but that's just lame.