Are Hermie seeds any good?

[lulu64]

I had 3 girls but one of them put out some seeds but it didn't affect the other 2 plants. The smoke was still good too. My question is this..."Can I plant seeds from a hermie or will they just generate more hermies"? Since I can't get seed where I live, I'm hoping I can use these. I don't know what stress caused the one to go hermie. It only had seeds on a few lower branches. I'm stumped as what caused this to happen. Thanks for your help.

[catbuds]

Hey, don't beat yourself up over having a hermie, if it crops up, then it's in the plants genetic make up to do so. Stress can induce it, but it first has to be in the plants nature, as in some strains of afghan. I personally throw out my hermie seeds, but have read they're used in the first step of the process of breeding feminized seeds (?) Don't know how accurate that info was, can't believe EVERYTHING you read. Look on the members list & find 'Cannabis-seeds'. I've got some really useful info from him. Good luck & have a happy!

BTW. Maybe nothing stressed it. Sometimes one will pop up just because it's in the genetic make-up, but before you toss those seeds, ask someone from a seed bank. If the info I read was correct, you might be interested in trying your hand at breeding your own femseeds.

[cannabis-seeds]

From what I've heard & read, you'll get feminized seeds that way, but if you have a non-stable breed, the seeds will be non-stable as well. And there is some argument over whether or not those seeds are of good quality or not. Lots of people use them, lots of people throw them away. Sorry I don't have any personal experience.

On the bright side, I read a log on a different forum for Liberty Haze or Vanilla Kush (sorry - can't remember which one it was, but I'm pretty sure it was a Barney's Farm seed) where one out of three hermied. Dude carefully pinched off the bananas so he didn't get seeds - he said the hermied product was the best out of the batch.

[cannabis-seeds]

I've got some really useful info from him.

No worries 'cause you'd have no way of knowing, but I'm not a "him" - lol.

Funny - everyone assumes I am on sites like this.

[catbuds]

No worries 'cause you'd have no way of knowing, but I'm not a "him" - lol.

Funny - everyone assumes I am on sites like this.

(Me neither, so verrry sorry!) My ex & I planted a bunch of hermie seeds back in the 80's. I remember we got about 50/50 (or there about) female to herm, but NO MALES. At the time, I was making silk screen hash, & he was trying his hand at making oil. Hum.. he set the woods on fire, but anyway, what I came up with was taking a big pile of the golden tricomes & mixing in just a drop or 2 of hash oil to make it stick together easier. I'd been wrapping the trichomes in plastic & pressing them with a 6" bench vice. When I added the oil, I could press it by hand between two blocks of wood. Too much work to make your product sellable. The herms were potent, tasted great, but we couldn't sell it seedy, & if you pop the seeds out, the buds just weren't pretty. After that, we threw out our hermie seeds. Thank god there are better, easier mothods now to make hash. As I understand it, you can still set the woods on fire making hash oil! Any way, as a back yard grower, hermies are bst kept for personal, & unless you can find the info you need to breed feminized, save your self a lot of work & chuck them. If you have full time employment, all this takes too much time & devotion.

[tlranger]

Try to grow the best, it usually pays better.

[Shovelhandle]

I've grown out seeds from quality females that were popped from hermies of good decent. Good results, all females.

The best results I've had were from quality seeds from the breeder themselves. When you got the dough go with the best seeds and grow set up.

[catbuds]

Just how DO you breed feminized seeds anyway? I know (or rather read) the first generation begins with a hermaphrodite. Can anybody tell us the process?

[catbuds]

I know hermies are used in the first generation of breeding feminized seeds. I read the instructions for doing this about 25yrs ago, but can't remember what they are. Would it be pollinating a straight female with hermie pollen? Damned, wish I could remember the instructions in the article. But dude, if you CAN'T get anyother seeds, it beats the blank. Just pop the seeds out & indulge. It just doesn't make a saleable product. CAN ANYBODY TELL US HOW TO BREED FEM-SEEDS FROM HERMAPHRODITES?

(Please ignore previous post.messed up trying to edit)

[Shovelhandle]

search gibberilic acid and colloidal silver. Some breeders (Soma) use light stress to get the female to produce male stamen and pollen. Should be plenty of information right in this forum. You will just have to look for it.

[catbuds]

I'd done some reading on gb acid in the 80's, but didn't pay too much attention since my goal was to ptoduce females. It was brought up breifly at U of D (Delaware), hort program, but not extensively. It's found in some commercial rooting hormones, which I avoided since I wanted females. (I use an old school method, willow water, if you're not familiar & want that recipe, friend me & I'll share). Anyway, my intent here was to ask the right questions to help the dude find uses for his hermies & the techniques to do so. I think we're getting close to going off topic.