Skunk Baxter
Well-Known Member
No, I think there probably is some truth to it. A lot of bagseed is from hermies. I could easily see how certain individual plants would be more genetically disposed to go hermaphrodite than other plants, and if you have bagseed from a hermie, it stands to reason that the seed would pass on that genetic characteristic to the plant you grow from it.
Where I think some people take it too far (as does happen all too often on these forums) is that people take something that is generally, somewhat true and repeat it as though it's absolute gospel. It's amazing how wrong people can get something when they're so stoned they can't find the Cheeto bag that's crushed under their ass on the couch. So they take "A seed from a hermaphrodite may sometimes have a greater tendency to produce a hermaphrodite if the plant is stressed", spin it around a bit, and what comes out the other side is "If you grow bagseed, it will go herm on you." And everyone sits around, nods wisely, and says, "Yep. No doubt about it. Always known that. Learned it from my grandparents, in fact." Christ, I'll never forget the one a few years ago where some people were convinced that pine needles gave off a gas that destroyed THC, because they'd heard you shouldn't plant dope near pine trees. How they got from Point A to Point Z on that one I'll never understand, but there they were.
The truth is, just about every marijuana plant probably has the potential to go herm under the right (or should I say, wrong) conditions. Some plants that have hermaphrodites in their ancestry probably are more likely than others, if they are stressed. If the grower does her job right, and doesn't give the plant those conditions, most plants will usually never herm, bagseed or no.
