Hermaphrodite seeds

I have heard that if you pollenate a female plant with a hermi you get either hermies or female but it has to be a true hermie, meaning not a female that was stressed into hermi, which is very uncommon most likely if you have hermie seeds they came from a plant that was stress not an actual hermie seed. thats what ive heard anyway

 

If the plant was grown in not so perfect conditions which caused it to hermie, then if the seeds are grown out in better conditions then they may very well be fine. If the original plant tends to hermie easily, then that trait can show up in the offspring. So I guess you'd need to look at why (in other words how easily) the plant hermied in the first place. In a nutshell, if the plant hermied due to horrendous growing conditions then congrats you have some fem beans to grow out. If the plant hermied for little or no reason, then your seed would make excellent bird feed.

 

I think you get feminised seeds when the hermie pollinates it self. not when a hermi pollenates another female.

 

I've wondered about this myself, just been too lazy to research it. I've heard the same thing as you but if you look at the whole reasoning behind fem seeds (since the female is being pollinated by a female there are no male chromosomes) it looks like it wouldn't matter if it was self-pollination or pollination from a seperate hermie.

 

No no.
Here is what Mel says about it:

Producing Female seeds by Mel Frank MJ Growers Insider's Guide p. 296,297

To develop seed that will yield exclusively female plants requires some luck and careful observation, but it is simple. Remember that some female plants occasionally bear an isolated male flower. Marijuana plants are normally either female (xx chromosomes) or male (xy chromosome). MJ plants, although predisposed genetically to be male or female, have a degree of latitude that very often is affected by the environment. A plant that should be exclusively female may bear an occasional male flower and vice versa. THE POLLEN FROM THIS ISOLATED MALE FLOWER ON A FEMALE PLANT HAS ONLY THE X CHROMOSOMES, the genes for female plants. By carefully collecting the pollen from this male flower and pollinating female flowers (which also carry only x chromosomes), ALL THE RESULTING SEED WILL YIELD PROSPECTIVELY FEMALE PLANTS (XX CHROMOSOMES).

The only difficulty to producing female seed is in finding an actual source of female pollen. Many South East Asian plants characteristically bear some male flowers among mostly female flowering buds. These seeds give rise to seeds that will reflect their parents; that is, female buds mixed with male flowers. Don't breed these natural hermaphrodites. What you want to find is that rare female plant that perhaps develops one or two male flowers. This plant is genetically female. Carefully collect her pollen, and fertilize an exclusively female plant; ALL THE RESULTING SEEDS DEVELOP INTO PURE FEMALES. The only other certain candidate for female pollen is a female that has flowered well with pure female flowers, but late in life the plant reverses to male flowering. This is not that unusual when the plants are left to grow for an extended time, or if there is an erratic photoperiod.

Usually you have to wait for an unusual happenstance to find a solitary male flower on a female plant, but, there are presently known SIX DIFFERENT CHEMICAL TREATMENTS THAT INDUCE FERTILE MALE FLOWERS TO GROW ON FEMALE PLANTS. Gibberellic Acid (GA) is the chemical most commonly available.