Would You Flower/Harvest A Hermie?

Read about hermies. They sound interesting. Seem like a waste of time.

sometimes, but if you do, throw out the seeds. the gene pool has enough crap in it already, and i'm an advocate of killing off herms.

kp

if all you have is a hermie, don't keep the seeds. they will carry the herm genes. however, you can keep a herm, and get her through flower if you're patient and persistant. you need to pinch off the male flowers to keep from fully pollenating your plant (if you don't, you'll have all seeds and almost no smokeable product). also, misting will help to kill already spilled pollen.

kp

smalltimetoker said:

hermies seeds do not carry the same genes. i know for a fact because i have germinated seeds from a hermie and got mostly females.

Click to expand...

and your mostly females carry the gene for herm. even if they themselves do not become hermies, their offspring will have a high chance of turning. also, if backbred, you will have at least 50% hermies, as the gene will double up on half of the offspring (f2)

trust me, i wouldn't nay say if this weren't important.

kp

Yes, I would still flower/harvest a hermie...but I would more than likely put it and its clones outside to finish so it wont pollenate my true fems inside.

As far as the seeds, depends on the smoke..if the smoke is trash - i'd trash the seeds, if it was pretty decent I'd take my chances and grow them. It wouldnt make sense to throw out perfectly good seeds bcuz of something I couldnt control.

I think every plant has the hermie gene in them, even ones from the seedbanks, but they have a lower chance of going hermie bcuz of the way they were bred. Unless someone actually took the time and isolated the hermie gene in a seed and destroyed it completely, I believe it is still present in each seed but things like stress, training, and age of the plant could cause it to reveal its true sex.