[Tipz]

Man! This one is sure to generate lots of opinions,and rightfully so. The subject is Herms and how they have evolved from the time of cannabis castle to ads in the back of hightimes to today.It will take everyone's input to get to the end of it.
I'll try to go back as far as I can and to the best of my recall and there will be plenty of mistakes.

Cannabis castle times..... The only time you ever heard of a herm coming from there or the sssc was from a practical landrace sativa.
Herms we're freaks at the time and were rarely seen, even with the growers on the west coast. I would venture a guess and say Herms accounted for less than 1% of the total population

To be continued

[stihgnobevoli]

i'm told by sciency types that the natural state of most flowers is hermaphrodite. male flower and female flower together in one.

[Tipz]

Like a lot of you, I ponied up some cash and sent it off to Neville.....after wait wait wait
It arrived Garlic Bud and HashPlant...it was on...Herms were virtually non existent, and rarely even discussed, and when they were even mentioned, it was considered a mutant with no value. The rage was sensimilla and no one wanted seeds after all that first wave of seeded shit from Colombia. It was a time for rainforests and sun circle light movers and pot with no seeds. I like you waited patiently bi monthly for senimilla Tipz......still no Herms of significance

To be continued

[Tipz]

The first time I saw any Herms of significance, was the second seed run of SFVog, the strain was pervasive out west. All of a sudden, folks gardens were pollinated,after all the complaints old swerve said he would make it right, he never did after a half hearted effort. The money just got to good, so he kept pumping out the Herms right to SFVog F3. And the public kept sucking them right up, everyone and his brother became a breeder and the trait just kept proliferating

[mojave green]

So swerv is the source of all herms huh?

[Tipz]

Proliferation exponentiated...more Herms in the genepool, more crosses with genetically involved Herms. More more more....the comes the chemical inducements, wallet protectionism.

[Tipz]

Originally Posted by mojave green

So swerv is the source of all herms huh?

U can't possibly be that dense

[Tipz]

For every swerve there are ten more just like him, damn the plant, fill the wallet, also let me say the cannabis world is built on the backs of the folks that actually do good work, and there are plenty here. Once never mentioned Herms...... Now it's well if you get one good phenotype it's worth it thinking BS.

[betshtick]

Originally Posted by Tipz

For every swerve there are ten more just like him, damn the plant, fill the wallet, also let me say the cannabis world is built on the backs of the folks that actually do good work, and there are plenty here. Once never mentioned Herms...... Now it's well if you get one good phenotype it's worth it thinking BS.

I'm really interested in this topic. Seems even 4-5 years ago hermies were pretty rare for me. In the last 12mos everything I've popped (from a variety of sources) has had herm phenos, except one strain of kush.

There's always a tradeoff. I'm not too surprised that after years of inbreeding and feminizing chasing that monster yielding, 30% THC cash cropper that finishes in 45 days we're left with nothing but flashy names and muddled genetics.

[Tipz]

the plant is a tightly integrated web of synergistic interactions. The target effect of chemical manipulation does not arise in isolation from the rest of the plant.
Chemical manipulation changes the morphology,physiology and metabolism, which can affect the way the plant relates to its environment.

ANY statements on targeted chemical manipulation are generally not based upon comparative morphological study, much less compositional assessment of aspects not visible to the eye. These types of statements are not generally made by plant morphologists. Tipz