Question about seeds/self pollination

Negrodamus said:

So I'm smoking through my recent scrog and coming across no more than 1 seed per top. Were talking maybe 3-5 mature, black seeds per ounce. Strain is feminized Bruce Banner (strawberry diesel x og kush) and I know these can have a tendency to herm, but why no nanners? I actually needed some more fem seeds and this strain is super fucking potent so I'm happy, but I'm also confused as to how she managed to self pollinate without visible pollen sacs or signs of herming. There were no seeds in my last grow so the tent was clean... Do I need to wipe everything down before my next grow now?

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Boatguy said:

I would look at it as a positive. Why worry about a few beans? especially if they are fems

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Negrodamus said:

Oh it's definitely a positive and I plan on using the seeds for sure. Just trying to understand the biological mechanism behind degrees of pollen production. Had I stressed my plant more would there have been more seeds? Had I not defoliated so heavily would there have been none? Now that I've got 20 seeds with a known tendency to herm I wanna understand what I'm working with.

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MickFoster said:

It's not unusual for a plant to throw out some nanners late in flower as a last ditch effort to reproduce........it's called rodelization.
It's not considered a hermaphrodite, and the seeds produced will be fems.
Some growers use this technique to produce fem seeds by stressing the plant to throw out nanners.
A true hermaphrodite will have both pistils and balls fairly early in flower.........seeds produced will be hermies.

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