help any answers first time grower my plants were fine but last week would been five weeks into flowering. they all had white hairs everywhere!! and no balls!! and now i have seeds all seeds no buds these plants where big beatiful. thanks star1

"First i've heard that if a hermie pollinates its self, all the seeds will be female. But then i have also heard that if it pollinates it self, most of the seeds will be hermies."

It depends on why it hermies.

If the genetics are poor the plant may hermie without excessive stress, so every grow you'll get bananas regardless of your growing skill and how well you grow the plants. This pollen will produce S1s but is not good for breeding unless the breeder is going to breed out the natural hermaphrodism while keeping special characteristics from the plant. Advanced breeding.

If the genetics are good and the plant would not hermie under normal growing conditions then the plant must be stressed somehow to make it produce male flowers. Breeders will often feed the plant colloidal silver to produce bananas, some will use light stress (interrupted dark cycle). This pollen is good for breeding S1s (Self pollenated, 1st generation - seeds will produce all female plants.)

Unpollenated female plants will also naturally produce bananas late in flower in a last ditch effort to reproduce. This pollen is good for breeding S1s.

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That being said, a few of us have been tracking feminized seeds, looking for hermieing trends. An S1 will have slightly less stable characteristics than the parent, one of those characteristics is sexual stability. I've flowered 3 feminized strains and have 2 more in veg, a few more in the wings waiting for a space in the garden to open up. In the thread from the following link we're looking for ways to prevent or stop hermaphrodism, and which breeders/strains are prone to hermieing - focusing on feminized strains:

Feminized Seeds Hermie Test - 14 strains, which are high risk; frequency; DM Reverse;

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note: I've read that by the 3rd or 4th generation of Self Pollenating (S3, S4) the plants are so unstable that they're useless for our needs.

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I stressed my female by trying to re-veg it and now have been flowering for a long time to try to get lower trichomes to go more amber to match the top...seems as a result of this plant abuse about 3 buds just below main cola have got the little seeds at the end (two or three, one big one) which I clipped off. Buds are healthy so I was planning on cutting the top off-which is now ready-and leaving the rest a couple more weeks. If your plant started to grow lots of seeds it sounds like it went full hermie for some reason?? I would chop it then if it is not flowering anymore and start again..sorry, good luck to you..