Hermie feminized seed?

So I absentmindedly walked down to my outdoor grow site in the dark carrying a flashlight to pick up some tools I'd left there. Realized too late I could have disrupted the light cycle, which could apparently cause the plants to develop hermies. My question is: All these plants are clearly females with no existing hermaphroditic traits. If they do develop male flowers now, wouldn't the resulting pollen only release X chromosomes, similarly to using colloidal silver to induce male flowers in female plants? If so, wouldn't this just be an accidental case of making feminized seed? I wouldn't really mind if that were the case, since I plan to pollenize some colas for seed anyway. Thoughts?

That small flashlight you used had little to no effect on your plants unless you set there and held it on the plant for hours. You have nothing to worry about, this question gets brought up quite frequently.

Dude u ruined the grow

Thanks for the reply, but I am now interested in finding out more about this, even if I don't end up having a problem. If the plants are XX females and not XXXY or whatever hermies are at the chromosomal level, how would this kind of light-induced male flower be any different than those induced by colloidal silver by breeders who want feminized seed?

jdog127 said:

That small flashlight you used had little to no effect on your plants unless you set there and held it on the plant for hours. You have nothing to worry about, this question gets brought up quite frequently.

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Also it was actually a pretty huge flashlight...

I hope you have been putting up your moon shade every month.

Yes, seeds from hermie pollen will either be female or hermie. No true males.

too larry said:

I hope you have been putting up your moon shade every month.

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LOL, yea I've been told I fret too much...

too larry said:

Yes, seeds from hermie pollen will either be female or hermie. No true males.

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So the seeds would be females with a tendency to hermie, rather than XXXY at the chromosomal level? I guess I'm not understanding why colloidal silver does not cause such an issue, while breaking the light cycle would.

Mrs. Weedstein said:

So the seeds would be females with a tendency to hermie, rather than XXXY at the chromosomal level? I guess I'm not understanding why colloidal silver does not cause such an issue, while breaking the light cycle would.

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I'm no pro, but here is what I know about it.

Stress induced hermies are not the same as genetic ones. You can stress any strain enough and it will hermie on you. But some strains can take a lot more stress than others. {and outdoor plants are not as quick to hermie for light issues as indoors. the moon and all that}

All plants will be male without a certain hormone. The silver blocks absorption of that hormone, so the male flowers appear. {sorry for my lack of names and such}

Thanks for the info. Part of the reason I'm interested is I may try to produce feminized seed at some point and I'm trying to learn more about it. (And how to avoid fucking it up.)

I've found a few seeds in my unpollinated (by male) plants and they have been female. Some were on my indoor, there were only a few seeds. My friend found two in his outdoor skywalker og and they were both female.
Cant you buy some "silver / something" that will make the plant produce female seeds?

burnpile said:

I've found a few seeds in my unpollinated (by male) plants and they have been female. Some were on my indoor, there were only a few seeds. My friend found two in his outdoor skywalker og and they were both female.
Cant you buy some "silver / something" that will make the plant produce female seeds?

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Yea I’m thinking about trying colloidal silver eventually but figured I’d wait until I have more experience