Can A Hermie Pollinate Females??

[Crkh3d]

I'm about to seriously plant for my first time and I've decided on buying feminized seeds. I know they're more money but I'm more worried about getting just buds without any seeds. I've done reading and found out that getting a 100% feminized seed isn't exactly possible, I planned on getting a batch or 5 or 10 seeds but if i get a hermie in there will it pollinate the rest of the females... Would i need to pull out the hermie or hermies?

[rigormortis]

if it has boy sex parts it can pollinate a female

and a hermi has boy parts

[oldskoolgrower]

Yes, if you want seedless weed pull out any hermies. Just removing male flowers will not help you; more will sprout and sometimes they are buried under females.

[cork144]

if a hermie polenates a neerby female, youll have feminized seeds, but the seeds on the hermieitself, arnt feminized.

[eikabpwnsyou]

I was about to say the same thing. If you get a hermie out of your femmies (which under proper conditions you shouldn't). After, you rip the shim out be sure to take some of the pollen sacks, open them up, put the pollen on a sterile blade and pollinate some of the lower bud sites on your other females. Those buds won't be worth anything anyway after harvest, so you might as well use them to aquire more female seeds, eh?

[somekind]

Originally Posted by eikabpwnsyou

I was about to say the same thing. If you get a hermie out of your femmies (which under proper conditions you shouldn't). After, you rip the shim out be sure to take some of the pollen sacks, open them up, put the pollen on a sterile blade and pollinate some of the lower bud sites on your other females. Those buds won't be worth anything anyway after harvest, so you might as well use them to aquire more female seeds, eh?

That's a little advanced for someone who doesn't even know how sex works.

[lessismore]

If a feminized seed produces a hermie, it will not produce female seeds on the females, the seed will produce a 50/50 ratio of female to hermie. Just as a male pollinating a female produces a ratio of males to females, as with hermies to females, the male is taken out of the ratio, being less than 1%, so you end up having hermies and females. The only way to get true female seeds is by chemically reversing the sex, or using a long dragged out method which is a method of stress to determine a pure 100% female and then allowing her toi flower 2-3 weeks past her full maturity which will result in a few males flowers forming. Take these male footballs and store them for use on your next run, pollinate another females that did not hermie under stress and you have female seeds. However it is so time consuming few seed banks do it, they use the chemical method b/c they need to supply demand.

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[Crkh3d]

Everybody thank you for all your help..