Is it possible to cause a hermie by ripping off female flowers, letting male flowers grow back?

Or would it just be a hermie no matter what?

I may be having some trouble with this.

I'm getting those growths that look like the normal ones I've seen, only much larger and without a pistil.

But they're sort of like the ones that I normally see for the female flower, only right before the pistil pops out, and they are forming on the parts of the plant that are just now forming flowers, so it may just be a female that I'm confusing for hermie.

But they're only forming on the spots of the branch where I previously picked off the flowers. I'm thinking they were female flowers in the first place, and my picking them off, caused the plant to become hermie, but I'm too confused...