I had 1 plant herm, pollinated itself and everything else in the tent 
So, I’m about to have a bunch of seed. Should I use them or are they bad genes due to the herm as the source?
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I would save them and run a bunch at once; likely you have a bunch of feminized seeds and if the strains are compatible for growth and flavor profile you just ended up with a lifetime supply of feminized seeds.
I had a Sour Diesel spontaneously seed a couple of years ago and I and several others grew out some of the seeds: all female and all potent and tasty with great yields.
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Seeeeds, glorious seeeds! 
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I just tried this. Got nothing but hermies. Don’t waste the time energy or nutes. IMO.
- unless you can’t attribute the herm to a certain stressor. Genetic herms make herm seeds in my experience
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You are absolutely correct; you HAVE to run some out to see if they are worth keeping.
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Def save them
The ones from the hermi plant may show tendency to hermi but the other plants that where pollinated will be reg seeds
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Oh I know the stressor. My smart plug disconnected from our wifi during the on period and just stayed on 24/7 for several days before I noticed.
I ended up with over a pound across the 4 pollinated plants, but they’re as seedy as they are frosty. Tomorrow it’ll be dry enough to start pressing for extract (trash for edibles). I’ll pull seed and give it a whirl. I’m glad I still have 2 unpollinated to use as plain old fashioned green flower. Bonus, they’re my 2 favorite strains - ilgm banana kush and a clementine from elsewhere.
Side-note: my experiment trying seed from other sources has proven to be a fail, in general. Too many issues to get into with one bank I can’t mention here.
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You can mention the seed bank you had problems with, you just aren’t allowed to post a link to their site.
It was Nukeheadz. I made multiple attempts. They replaced the order, not just once, but twice because it happened again… and then again. They’re selling bag seed at fem price points.
The upside - a year later - I’m wrapping up a grow right now and I included 2 seeds that I ended up with. Both are Liberty(m)/Domina(f) and they are freakin beautiful. They’re in the 7th week of flower. I’m guessing 2-3 more weeks before I’ll be flushing and cutting. I cannot wait. I’m a proud parent every time I open the tent.