New Grower Outdoor plants went a little hermie, keep seeds?

[Heavily Medicated]

I had a feminized auto white widow (vision seeds) and a feminized auto creme caramel (sweet seeds) that I planted outdoors in early June because rodents dug up the ones I started indoors and moved out. It was pretty much a disaster from the beginning with grasshoppers stripping off pretty much all the fan leafs in one or two days. One time looking OK, next time stripped bare. It quit raining and drought conditions prevailed. I gave them one gallon of water per week just to try to keep them alive. They kept growing, although very poorly, and I did harvest about a bic lighter sized bud from the creme caramel and 4-5 grams from the white widow. When grinding the bud for the vape, I found one seed in the creme caramel bud and one seed in the white widow harvest. I know that severe stress can cause plants to go hermie, and I think that is what happened here. If I grow out these seeds in an indoor grow, do you think they would be hermie under good grow conditions? Or should I just toss them? Thanks.

 

[gbd]

Did you notice any pollen sacks? It seems like there would be more seeds if one herm'd and pollinated the other. I found a single seed in each of my two grape stomper plants with no sacks or stress. I was curious about why this happened and if they would be guaranteed females since no male pollen was involved.

 

[Heavily Medicated]

I had a photoperiod plant once that was just a little hermie and I grew out the seeds. I had some males and the females were far more hermie than the original plant.

 

[Heavily Medicated]

there were no other pollen sacs that I noticed. Seems there would have been more than one seed even with just one sac, there has to be thousands of pollen grains in each pod.

 

[Anthropolis]

What could have happened, is that someone in the area is also growing, and the wind or bees carried just a few pollen specks along with them. That could explain why only one flower each was pollinated. I also think that if it hermied, you'd have many more seeds than 1.

 

[Heavily Medicated]

Good point Anthropolis, it's not uncommon to see wild hemp in the area, leftovers from the WWII days when the local farmers where paid by the government to grow hemp for the war effort. This would be a more likely source for the stray pollen.

 

[gbd]

Hmm, that could be. Mine happened in the controlled environment of a tent with no males present. Also they weren't in the bud, it was on the branch just before the bud. Very interesting to me.

 

[thetreeman]

If they werent intentionally created, I would throw them. Its not worth the hassle/risk to grow out plants that you have no clue about their genetic background and potential to herm and screw up more valuable plants.

 

[EverythingsHazy]

You can grow them and consume them, but don't breed with them in case it is there hermie pollen that made them, and not wild pollen. Just my .02