I had an AK47 go hermie on me and i got a ton of mature seeds off of it. Question.....will they be female? hermie? or male?
They will be hermie for the most part, and you'll get a few straight males and a few straight females. Better not to use them. The only good 'hermie' seeds to use, come from females you intentionally had to stress out much, much harder than your optimal grow conditions normally allow in order to produce some pollen, because the resulting offspring will require the same difficult conditions to hermy again. So, if you use seeds that came from a natural hermie, who went that way automatically in your best grow conditions, or even from a slight bit of avoidable stress, you are breeding the ability to end up with like-hermys who will also trigger just as easily in your environment to produce male pollen automatically.. giving you even more useless seeds and less-smokeable bud! It's a chain of events best avoided
You have to consider how the plant went hermie. Was it hermie from the beginning of flowering, or did it turn hermie late in flowering due to light leaks or some form of stress? In most cases, seeds from full blown hermies(those which show they hermie from the beginning of flowering) will result in seeds which give you females and hermies. Mostly females, but they will be very sensitive to hermie and these traits will appear throughout the grow on certain females more than others. If it was a result of stress and/or light leaks, you have a good chance most of the seeds will produce females, however, they will still be very sensitive to turning hermie.