Stupid Question about Feminized Seeds

So I'm on my 1st grow ever about 17 days into flowering).

My question is this:

I ordered all feminized seeds. Since my plants are all ladies, will they ONLY produce feminized seeds? Also, which is the best time to collect them? I didn't see a post or thread about this so I figured I'd just ask. Thanks!

There is no stupid question. Be careful, feminized seeds do not guarantee 100% female plants. Make sure all your plants are female. Do you know the difference between female and male flowers? Your plants will not produce any seeds unless they have been pollenated by a male plant, you don't want that to happen unless your goal is to harvest seeds. Further on and in case you want to prepare another crop, you want to take some cuttings and clone your female plant. A female plant will always clone a female. In the case plants are exposed to a lot of stress generally induced by an excess of heat, there is a chance they will become hermies easily noticeable in a first stage by the presence of female and male flowers in the same plant, later by the presence of light yellow pistils or bananas and the presence of pollen within the bud (kinda like a thin powder on your hand after touching the flower), while in doesn't mean the seeds will develop to maturity, it will affect the potency of your buds.

Good Luck and post some pics if you are not sure about the flowers.

thanks for the reply. makes sense.

here's a pic of one of my plants. what do you think?

Issabelly said:

thanks for the reply. makes sense.

here's a pic of one of my plants. what do you think?

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If those are all the same plant than that is a hermie. Those little balls in the first and third pic are pollen sacs.

420God said:

If those are all the same plant than that is a hermie. Those little balls in the first and third pic are pollen sacs.

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Yup bad news.

If it is just the one plant with those little balls than it's a male and just get rid of that one.

This is a great example of a hermie. Every time you see a cluster of several sacks it is pollen. I believe those are almost ready to pop out, you can see how they are starting to open. I would suggest you remove all the hermies and males very gently avoiding shaking the plants, destroy these plants asap. Wash your hand thoroughly and change clothes before manipulating the rest of the females . Unfortunately, seeds from hermies are not usable, the risk is too high.