Just found a single seed from the last Bruce Banner grow.
The seed looks viable, so is it likely to be female?
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Depends on what it was pollinated with. If it was female pollen, all seeds should be female. If it was male pollen, seeds will be regular, about half and half.
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There were no male plants, they were grown inside a tent.
Can a female produce male pollen?
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Female plants that produce pollen produce feminized pollen. Anything that pollen hits should create feminized seeds. Very small chance of pulling male from resulting seed.
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Cool a bonus seed and it came from the best pheno type of the four I grew.
So far it’s only been one seed, things that make you go mmmmm…
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I’ve read that if it is a genetic trait that produce the male flowers (hermaphrodite) then it is more likely to pass that herm trait. Genetics pass from generation to generation and such. But if environmental stress causes the female plant to produce male flowers, then the resulting seeds will be female, because there are no actual male genetics involved.
Note… I’ve only read this flipping through the interwebs. No experience on it or real study.
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Maybe it’s a Jesus seed. 
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Yes, it’s true. Female plants that herm early to mid flower usually have a genetic fault of one sort or another. Those particular types of hermied plants usually have a lot of seeds. If you only find a couple, I’d be willing to bet it was a plant that went past maturity and in a last ditch effort started to produce pollen. This can happen when waiting out amber trichomes. It is actually a method used to create S1 plants. I forgot the term. But they will just let them run until they pollinate themselves.
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Actually I did let these girls grow a bit long and did take my time harvesting them over several days, cutting from the bottom up.
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I usually have a seed or three. Maybe 1 or 2 every half or so. Not enough to complain. I get more from autos if they go a little longer. Only ever planted them once but they were from an i dont remember photo that got hit by an auto that threw like 4 male flowers at the very beginning and snapped out of it. Planted 3 and 2 had balls first thing so i chunked them all.
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I look at them as extra rewards for efforts. I keep them all unsorted in a little jar.
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It’s common. Feminized plants are more
Likely to herm then plants from reg seeds. Feminized plants were created in that fashion by forcing a plant to herm for the pollen. In reg seeds hermied plants are generally a result of bad genetics, or a ton of stress. Less common though.
Pros and cons all around. 
a lot of bangers happened by accident through hermies.
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I don’t want to sound like a know-it-all but most comments here are completely wrong. Fact.
Due to new strains thrown onto the market without being rigorously tested there are many unstable strains out there, particularly anything to do with Cookies strains. You know, get hold of the next big thing, cross pollinate it with the last big thing and let’s make some big bucks. Sod stabilising it, that takes too long and we’ll miss the boat. Unfortunately this is the world we live in.
The resultant offspring commonly throw off male flowers during weeks 3 & 4, these open up and you end up with a tent full of unwanted seeds. Don’t ever keep those seeds as they are carrying the crap genetics from the parents. They will be both male and female plants if germinated.
The only way to guarantee having female seeds is to go through the process of producing an S1 - self-pollinated. I have done it and am about to S1 GDP.
The process involves making 2 solutions using Silver Nitrate for one and Sodium Thiosulfate for the other then mixing the 2 to end up with a solution named STS.
You then take 2 female clones and spray one of them the day they go into flower. The sprayed plant will produce only male-looking flowers but the pollen produced is guaranteed to produce female seeds whichever female plant is pollinated with it.
I’ve been growing for 13 years so I like to think I know what I’m talking about.
Happy growing.