cutting out the hermit???

Just curious about this, but if the plant is starting to hermi can you just trim out the infected area? Does it work that way or do the hermi characteristics keep coming back?

They usually come back yes. If it's just a handful of nanners or just a couple of balls early on you could consider removing them and inspect them frequently.. It's a pain in the ass having to check it over and over during weeks of flowering and depending on plant size easy to miss one or more. If you have other plants in flower just kill the hermi.