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Are my seeds female?

anatoliangrower
anatoliangrowerstarted grow question 4 years ago
Hello there I harvested 100 plants in my lab. All my collections have become hermaphrodites due to heat and soil problems. I collected an average of 2-3 seeds from each plant. Some of my plants have no seeds at all. I currently have 150 seeds. Are these seeds female? is it male?
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Benzels
Benzelsanswered grow question 3 years ago
Based on my very limited experience with hermies pollinating fems, the seeds are usually a mix of fems and hermies depending on the strain, as in some strains seem to hermie out very easily with little stress and if these genetics go hermie and cross to a fem (spesh if that fem is same strain with same tendency to hermie) then you just compound the problem with plants that are likely to be mostly fems but with a high chance of herming out again when grown...some may just hermie out cause they feel like it as you have potentially doubled up on the easily stressed = hermie genes. I had a lemon haze with variegated leaves that was a hermie, and her seeds were true to her type- hermied every time. So I crossed her to a sour diesel fem and got seeds that when grown were either sour diesel clearly or clearly the variegated lemon haze and hermied out every single time. So it depends what crossed with what as to the results, if you had multiple crossings then some will be more likely to herm than others but its def worth planting em to see unless your running crops for cash, then id go get a fresh batch of seeds from somewhere diff to your last lot, if you want to make sure you have 100% fems next crop then get new seeds, but if you dont mind a few herms popping up, then plant about 30 and see what grows.
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