# Hermies all the time now **URL:** \ **Category:** Outdoor Growing\ **Tags:** autoflower\ **Created:** [September 24, 2021, 4:02am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hermies-all-the-time-now/75694 "2021-09-24T04:02:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pdcassidyjr101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@pdcassidyjr101](https://ilgmforum.com/u/pdcassidyjr101)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 4:02am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hermies-all-the-time-now/75694/1 "2021-09-24T04:02:09Z")
Last year is got a hermie, and I recently I bought fem auto flower seeds and every seed became a hermie. Every year quality has gone down. ---
**Author:** ![BudPorn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/budporn/32/584060_2.png) [@BudPorn](https://ilgmforum.com/u/BudPorn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hermies-all-the-time-now/75694/2 "2021-09-24T04:05:23Z")
Hermes come from bad genetics aka bad seeds aka bad breeders or they happen because the plant was stressed to much like a light leak. More information will help people diagnose this issue for you. Buy some good seeds and check your tent for light leaks ---
**Author:** ![MH47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@MH47](https://ilgmforum.com/u/MH47)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 4:26am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hermies-all-the-time-now/75694/3 "2021-09-24T04:26:10Z")
Welcome! I agree with @Budporn. A plant will hermie from bad genes or stress. Basically, it ‘feels’ threatened to the point that it ‘thinks’ it could die waiting to be pollinated so it takes on the issue to pollinate itself. I also agree heat and light stress are probably the two most common causes of a hermie. There could be other stressors. Pests, heat wave, really wet, stagnant air? Review your processes. See anything that jumps out? ---
**Author:** ![GreenSnek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/greensnek/32/366307_2.png) [@GreenSnek](https://ilgmforum.com/u/GreenSnek)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hermies-all-the-time-now/75694/4 "2021-09-24T06:32:56Z")
Sounds like your doing something that extremely stresses them out , in the 32 plants of 29 different strains I’ve grown I’ve never had a single hermie. ---
**Author:** ![Starless](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/starless/32/361045_2.png) [@Starless](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Starless)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hermies-all-the-time-now/75694/5 "2021-09-24T13:28:34Z")
I think feminized seeds are made thru stressing the plant and making it herm out so the trait must carry on like that. I have also heard there is better luck with “regular” seeds less chance of your plant deciding to go woke and go broke, with balls. ---
**Author:** ![Nicky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/nicky/32/397422_2.png) [@Nicky](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Nicky)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hermies-all-the-time-now/75694/6 "2021-09-24T14:05:19Z")
> [@Starless](#): > > feminized seeds are made thru stressing the plant and making it herm out so the trait must carry on like that. > > I have also heard there is better luck with “regular” seeds This is true to an extent, Fems always have a higher chance then a regular seed but any quality breeder shouldn’t be handing out seeds unless they were bred from stable parents and thus make a healthy offspring. Those offspring should be grown out or even bred out to ensure the seeds are good quality before selling. Like @GreenSnek said it should be rare one gets a herm, it will be a light leak or a genetic issue the majority of the time. @BudPorn nailed it ---
**Author:** ![BigItch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/bigitch/32/522649_2.png) [@BigItch](https://ilgmforum.com/u/BigItch)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hermies-all-the-time-now/75694/7 "2021-09-24T15:06:59Z")
All the growers around me use **colloidal silver** spray to make fem seeds for fear of having any male pollen close by. ---
**Author:** ![Myfriendis410](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/myfriendis410/32/556067_2.png) [@Myfriendis410](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Myfriendis410)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hermies-all-the-time-now/75694/8 "2021-09-24T15:58:11Z")
> [@Starless](#): > > I think feminized seeds are made thru stressing the plant and making it herm out so the trait must carry on like that. Yes and no. Definitely a seed from a hermaphrodite will tend to be like the parent. Like Nicky said however: highly modified hybrids and particularly feminized will be prone to hermaphrodites. The most vigorous and stable plants come from _regular_ seeds. The downside is the inevitable males that sprout. If these were ILGM seeds, send out a request for replacement seeds. > [@BigItch](#): > > for fear of having any male pollen close by. Um, colloidal silver on a flowering plant will create male flowers (with pollen). But it’s ‘feminized’ so anything pollinated _should_ be female (ish). ---
**Author:** ![BigItch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/bigitch/32/522649_2.png) [@BigItch](https://ilgmforum.com/u/BigItch)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hermies-all-the-time-now/75694/9 "2021-09-24T16:14:37Z")
I new it was something like that… never got into logistics. I prefer clones