Seeds from streass hermie?

Ok heres a question for yall

On my outdoor plants this year one of the plants suffered a gnarly burn from an improperly mixed foliar spray (luckily I noticed after only one plant) this happened like first week of flower.

A couple weeks later I notice a couple branches with all male flowers reaching up from the recovering burnt area. I can only assume it was from the stress.

Anyways I know seeds from a hermie have a higher chance of being herm, but what if they never encounter the same level of stress that made the parent herm in the first place? Please let me know if I am misunderstanding.

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The trait is in the plant. Keep a close eye on any seedlings or cutting from the plant if you intend to grow more of that line.

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and when people make socald fem seeds
they make them hermy to otherwise they dont give seeds when you give a fem to much stress they all so hermie
in my opinion ist the same

Essentially what buzzmobile (and you) said, if you don’t stress the offspring they may well never herm on you. The fact that you had whole branches throw male flowers does make me a little more hesitant than if you had a few male flowers emerge. What were the plants you were growing? As you probably know some varieties are more prone to herming under stress than others.

If I had other options and wasn’t really attached to growing seeds from that plant I’d probably toss them or keep them in reserve and grow something else.

In theory people should be stress testing the females they plan to chemically-induce male flowers on to avoid offspring that herm easily. Emphasis on the in theory part, YMMV.

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With seeds being so plentiful in the world I don’t mess with hermie stuff. That’s just a personal thing. Was there something really special about the plant these seeds came from?

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I’ve grown many herms and firmly believe it is genetic not environmental. Barring anything really weird happening.

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Do you think the process of feminization has any effect on herm percentages?

I’d give them a go next year outside again on their own, you never know.