Quote Originally Posted by oSecretGardeno
On a side note, a lot of breeders won't even work with feminized seeds because they are technically hermi seeds and although all plants can hermi, some think it gives them a great chance of herming again.
Any cannabis plant can hermie. Period. From what I understand, femmed or not...the genetics are the same, but the difference is in the chromosomes. I could find no info to the contrary but if anyone has info stating differently, I'd be glad to look-n-learn.

True, there is a prejudice against femmed seeds, and one should likely not use them to further the genetics if they can at all help it, but this is just a "better safe than sorry" approach. I've grown them out, and bred them, with no noticible differrence. But, I do keep my ''normal' seeds separate tho. (better safe than sorry)

Over the past 10,000+ years, cannabis had developed the ability to alter it's hormones (or is it steroids) and hermie...it's a survival trait, latent in the genes of all cannabis plants. (not sure about auto-flower strains, as I've never played with those)
Stress from over-ripening, chemicals, dissolved metals, hormones, ph swings, aspirin, and light poisoning are a few of the most popular methods used to get the nanners to form. This strategy gives the species a better chance of survival. This does not mean the latent genes modify themselves to become active in all successive generations, but I can see where many successive generations of stressed plants could become a strain of genetic hermies.

Femmed seeds are just that...femmed. (two X chromosomes) A femmed seed does not contain any male chromosomes. (one X and one Y chromosome) If you were sold femmed seeds, and got a male...I'd demand my money back, because you've been had. It's either that, or the breeder was careless enough to allow a male plant to donate to the genepool, in which case, he's lazy or inattentive...and...the seeds might not even be the true strain it was sold as, if the father was a different strain.