If I had to make a bet, I would say at least 95% of hermaphrodites are caused by environment.
If your plant "hermed" due to environmental conditions (which is the most likely scenario) then you have a plant that does not have a Y chromosome that will produce pollen. The resulting seeds will be Fem and just as likely to show male flowers as the Mom.
That means if you grow the resulting fem seeds the same way as the mother, they will most likely show male flowers. That is the grower's fault, not the plant's.
You mentioned that half way through the grow you noticed male flowers. That is a female that has been stressed enough to show male flowers. If it were an actual hermaphrodite (having both an X and Y chromosome) it would have shown male flowers from the beginning.
-You can leave it and allow it to skeet all over the other plants. You will get fem seeds. Don't listen to the people that say you will get herm seeds, they do not know what they are talking about.
-You can reverse the plant with a spray. I have no experience with that product.
-You can pick the male flowers off each day. You will still get some seeds.
i chop herms at first notice, no questions asked. there is no room for plants that even "might" show nanners in my budroom. i dont do fem beans either. i choose not to run fem beans not because i think they are all gonna herm, but because i feel a plant that has come from a real mother and real father is just better even if just in principle and not in performance. Male plants pass on traits just like females plants do so if you grow fem beans you are limiting yourself to half of the genetic pool that nature has created for us.
Fem seeds are basically really close copies of the mom which was produced with a male. It is similar to cloning.
There is no way you could tell the difference between a properly grown fem plant and a properly grown regular female plant from the same mom.
Yes but there's a difference between stressing a stable plant into herming to make feminized seeds. A plant that hermies by itself is genetically prone to herm and it's offspring will be too. But the seeds will also be feminized and you can still get some nice female plants. If it's a good strain I'd save the beans.
Stress is stress. Again, most "hermies" are the result of environmental stress. The tendency to stress under the same (bad) conditions will be passed on. That is the grower's fault, not the plant's.
If you use Tiresias Mist, you are stressing the plant. If you have light leaks, bad temps, bad nute ratios, too much nutes, too little nutes... you are stressing the plant.
What do I do with my "herms?" I do not do anything with them as I never see them, unless I make them.
