plants are growing quick, everything looks good,
here is my take on the fem seeds and hermies,
when i first tried making fem seeds from hermie pollen i failed, i kept reading that hermie pollen produces fem seeds, so i got a fem plant early in flower and gave it plenty of light and dark shock until it went hermie, i collected the pollen and also let the plant self polinate then put it back into flower, i put the pollen on another fem on a few buds, after i got the seeds i grew both sets out and both sets of seeds grow and went hermie at around the same time i forced the plant i got pollen from to go hermie, plus all seeds where not fems, id say about 1/4 where male, i grew out about 10,
so i read more about fem pollen and found out that the late pollen after the plant has flowered is what produces fem seeds, so if i went fem seeds i now leave the plant in flower for an extra few weeks, this then forces the plant to grow bananas, when these open they release a small amount of pollen, not as much as a regular male flower like the one shown in your pic above,
so its not much pollen but it does produce fem seeds,
is their a reason why yours has gone hermie, is their any light leaking in during the dark hours, is it getting to much nutes, is it over watered etc etc, any of this will cause plants to go hermie if they have a high hermie % in them, some strains hermie with very little stress and others just wont go hermie no matter what,
at the minute i got a purple cheese auto growing, i put some pollen i saved from my last fem that i left in flower to long on one of the buds to give me fem seeds, and i used male pollen from a male plant on other buds to give me some regular seeds to work with,
ive not tried using pollen from a plant that goes hermie on its own early in flower, due to me growing hermie plants with my last forced hermie pollen i have not gone down that root, instead i only use the late flowering treatment, this so far has given more pure fem seeds with no bad hermie traits,
i know growers do force hermie to produce fem seeds, look at that silver solution you use to force a fem to hermie, that badly stresses the plant and forces it to go hermie but that pollen does produce fem seeds,
but as yours is hermie early on this means the pollen sacs will be the round male pollen type sacs, these are full of pollen and release a lot, one of these opening near flowering plants will turn the whole room to seed,
if you wanted to collect pollen you could cut them pollen sacs off and collect them in as mall tub and leave them to dry out, they will then open and you will have pollen for future use,
it just depends what you actually wanted to do, but you wont see all the pollen sacs, some will be well hidden and will open without you knowing, no matter how often you check you will always miss some as they grow inside buds, under leaves and at nodes, some are very hard to find until they open up and then you see pollen on leaves below the pollen sac,
but it is possible to make fem seeds from the pollen that the plant produces at the end of flower, the plant does this to make sure it reproduces, its a sort of back up feature for the plant, it will reproduce if it gets pollen from a male or has to use its own pollen, either way the plant will live on and continue to grow year after year outdoors even with no males as long as the flowering plant is not harvested to early
here is my take on the fem seeds and hermies,
when i first tried making fem seeds from hermie pollen i failed, i kept reading that hermie pollen produces fem seeds, so i got a fem plant early in flower and gave it plenty of light and dark shock until it went hermie, i collected the pollen and also let the plant self polinate then put it back into flower, i put the pollen on another fem on a few buds, after i got the seeds i grew both sets out and both sets of seeds grow and went hermie at around the same time i forced the plant i got pollen from to go hermie, plus all seeds where not fems, id say about 1/4 where male, i grew out about 10,
so i read more about fem pollen and found out that the late pollen after the plant has flowered is what produces fem seeds, so if i went fem seeds i now leave the plant in flower for an extra few weeks, this then forces the plant to grow bananas, when these open they release a small amount of pollen, not as much as a regular male flower like the one shown in your pic above,
so its not much pollen but it does produce fem seeds,
is their a reason why yours has gone hermie, is their any light leaking in during the dark hours, is it getting to much nutes, is it over watered etc etc, any of this will cause plants to go hermie if they have a high hermie % in them, some strains hermie with very little stress and others just wont go hermie no matter what,
at the minute i got a purple cheese auto growing, i put some pollen i saved from my last fem that i left in flower to long on one of the buds to give me fem seeds, and i used male pollen from a male plant on other buds to give me some regular seeds to work with,
ive not tried using pollen from a plant that goes hermie on its own early in flower, due to me growing hermie plants with my last forced hermie pollen i have not gone down that root, instead i only use the late flowering treatment, this so far has given more pure fem seeds with no bad hermie traits,
i know growers do force hermie to produce fem seeds, look at that silver solution you use to force a fem to hermie, that badly stresses the plant and forces it to go hermie but that pollen does produce fem seeds,
but as yours is hermie early on this means the pollen sacs will be the round male pollen type sacs, these are full of pollen and release a lot, one of these opening near flowering plants will turn the whole room to seed,
if you wanted to collect pollen you could cut them pollen sacs off and collect them in as mall tub and leave them to dry out, they will then open and you will have pollen for future use,
it just depends what you actually wanted to do, but you wont see all the pollen sacs, some will be well hidden and will open without you knowing, no matter how often you check you will always miss some as they grow inside buds, under leaves and at nodes, some are very hard to find until they open up and then you see pollen on leaves below the pollen sac,
but it is possible to make fem seeds from the pollen that the plant produces at the end of flower, the plant does this to make sure it reproduces, its a sort of back up feature for the plant, it will reproduce if it gets pollen from a male or has to use its own pollen, either way the plant will live on and continue to grow year after year outdoors even with no males as long as the flowering plant is not harvested to early