In regards to passing 'hermie' traits thru feminization, I personally have experience, and do so quite sucessfully.
If you have not tried this technique, you really shouldn't try to pass bad info along to those of us that sucessfully use this technique. Good luck convincing me I can't do something that I consistently do.

I've used aspirin, I've used GA, (gibrellic acid) and I've used light poisoning. There's other methods, but these are what I have personally done.

The seeds I have now are from stock last purchased/recieved over 5 years ago.

The strains I have are:
Swazi Skunk
Potent Purple
C-99/Sweet Tooth
Bubblegum
Reefermans un-named R&D strain (I call it Pokerface)
Inca Spirit
and last year a friend gifted me some Diesel

Through multiple generations I have grown seeds using the normal male-female methods, and I've femmed all of my strains at least a couple of times.

Never...Let me repeat NEVER have I ended-up with a crop of hermie seeds. (knocks on wood, lol)

Most plants in nature have a survival technique or two imprinted in their genes. Going hermie is one of cannabis' survival techniques, and can be manually forced to express itself. This does not mean the strain is now tainted. In my experience, if the strain is strong to begin with...there will be no problems. In my later sucessions, still no problems. Trait is triggered when over-stressed.

Too many folks screwed-up attempting this with no prior growing knowlege or experience, and thusly reported a bad result. Now, this old wives tale about forced hermies being the devils spawn continues.

If you know your crop, and can sucessfully grow a plant from start to harvest...you are on the way to sucessfully pulling off the miracle of feminization.

If you have problems bringing a plant to harvest, or keep finding 'nanners', likely your technique needs improving. This does not necessarily mean the plant is a genetic hermie.
Plants have no ego, so they accept the ego-driven claims of an inexperienced grower, like they were fact.

But, from what I hear, bad strains are out there. I just don't grow any of 'em. :jointsmile: