When are you going to stop believing the crap about "hermies" and giberrelic acid? Male and female hormones are present in every pot plant, just like in humans. And, sometimes, during stress, the cannabis plant shows a "weakness" to express the "other" side of it's genes. Giberrelic acid does not make a plant "hermie", it changes the sexual orientation of what ever part of the plant you spray, not just one little part of a bud, etc., it will be the whole branch, whole bud, I think even if you sprayed just a bud on a branch you would end up having the whole branch change on you. Same with colloidal silver, the silver particles signal the "genetic" response to change sex to the whole bud, whole branch, not just one single pistil. Hermaphrodites are when a part of a bud, an actual single pistil changes from a pistil to a stamen which may or may not contain viable pollen, if it is viable it is usually carrying the female chromasome, meaning anything pollenated with said pollen will produce feminized seeds. This is how they produce feminized seeds, either by physically stressing the plant (letting it grow past maturity, self preservation kicks in and the plant produces male flowers - Soma's way), or, by spraying Colloidal Silver or Giberrelic Acid on the flowers of a female plant, triggering a change to stamen from pistil, then using that pollen to impregnate the rest of the plant, making female seeds in the process. the one thing you have to be careful of is concentrations, or ppms, of your solutions. At low strength, it is used to soak seeds and helps with germination of old, previously nonviable seeds. Also, in the wrong concentrations it can cause your plants to grow way too long internodes, promotes stretch - not what we want if you are growing indoor! The guys at No Mercy have some strange ideas, like the co2 root tabs, who feeds co2 to the roots? I know a lot of people who use colloidal silver with impeccable results, also gibberrelic acid. I also know guys who test the crap out of their seeds before they release them to test growers, even, just to make sure they get the hermie tendancies bred out BEFORE the public gets their hands on them. One of the most important steps a lot of growers miss, or don't think about when they are "chucking" that pollen!
