Why avoid hermies?

[johnny003]

One thing that makes me wonder is why everyone wants to avoid hermies? I am planning to make some seeds using colloidal silver and don't think putting the plant into another room would be an option.

My question is - do hermie plants give less yield? Lower potency? If not, why the hell are they avoided? The seeds seem like a bonus to me. Also, wouldn't it be possible to cut the pollen sacks and extract the pollen elsewhere and then apply it only on one or two buds?

What do you guys think?

 

[JAB]

One thing that makes me wonder is why everyone wants to avoid hermies? I am planning to make some seeds using colloidal silver and don't think putting the plant into another room would be an option.

My question is - do hermie plants give less yield? Lower potency? If not, why the hell are they avoided? The seeds seem like a bonus to me. Also, wouldn't it be possible to cut the pollen sacks and extract the pollen elsewhere and then apply it only on one or two buds?

What do you guys think?

Just from my experience with my last grow hermies do produce airy buds and nowhere near as big as they could be. Takes a lot of the plants energy producing the seeds which takes away from producing big buds.
EDIT - thought i should add in the buds i did get were still very potent and tastes good! Still got 35g from it. Hope this helps!

 

[Butrod]

Once a female flower is pollinated it will stop swelling in size but instead growing the seed. Which are unwanted mostly and can ruin an entire crop.
The tendency to herm is mostly genetically, ie. MJ breeders need to strictly cull these types.
Manually pollenizing a few branches is better and gives you both, esp. since you can pick the right time.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

The genetic trait in seed produced from a plant that hermies because it has the genetics to do it and not a stress response, will be 50% hermies when grown out. Hermies unculled soon enough will ruin your crop. Not completely but the seed is a worthless hassle. Bud size is seriously diminished. Sometimes you can pick the pollen sacs off ASAP and the plant will finish as a female but if you pick the balls once and she throws some more kill that plant.

 

[JaxsoNL5]

Takes a lot of the plants energy producing the seeds which takes away from producing big buds.

Once a female flower is pollinated it will stop swelling in size but instead growing the seed.

and everything MOG said

I’m not sure if yield is affected, but bud quality/potency will be in a seeded plant. Plus you have to constantly pick out seeds. Why “sinsemilla” is always sung about…bud with no seeds put all its energy into sticky flower production

MOG gives the “why not use it”…the genes responsible for hermies, also called “intersex traits”, are inherited. Breeders that want to stabilize their genetic lines can’t have this happen.

There is a huge difference between using STS or CS to cause a hormonal change in a female plant and collecting the fem pollen for use, versus carrying forward an uncontrolled genetic change from a plant that hermied (likely because it couldn’t handle some stress, yet another reason for a breeder to cull the plant out of hundreds or more they’re hunting as breeding parents).

 

[logangrowgan2020]

pot is like chickens, the non fertilized female stuff rocks for human consumption.

apparently the biggest kinda "thing" in cannabis history is the idea of sensimilla - without seeds. domesticating the plant and segregating by sex had led to supercharged evolution.

 

[Talonxracer]

The production of resin from the trics is greatly reduced once the flowers are pollinated. Increased resin production is the result of a virgin flower/plant trying to capture any pollen that might be floating in the air.