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Hey there, hoping some of you can help me out here I have been growing for 2-3 years now. I started with AK-47, then bubblegummer, then chrystal and now recently Blueberry and Kalimist. All went well until the blueberry.. I had to take down my grow tent for a while because I needed to use the room it was in for something else, so I decided to use the pantry instead. Problem is, I couldn't keep the temperature low enough there but with a maximum of 31 Celcius I reckoned I could get away with it (have used that room before and worked ok). 3 out of 4 plants turned into hermas and I was way too late discovering it (have only had successful grows over the years so got a little cocky and didn't check up on my plants enough), so everything got seeded up like a motherf####r and very low quality weed. I decided to keep the plants because I was so far along in the cycle that I didn't want to waste the electricity I had already put into it. Anyways, I figured I had just been unlucky and got a bad batch of seeds, as I'm sure the nutrients and ph were properly maintained and I had had several good grows in that room when starting out. I bought some expensive kalimist seeds next and, guess what? All 4 are hermas. They only have the odd little male sac here and there, but there's no mistaking it. I have enough time to remove them all with a pair of tweezers before they burst, though if I keep the plants I'll leave one or two so as to have some kalimist seeds for later. In the blueberry grow, the male sacs also appeared more in a banana shape in the middle of the buds as well - it doesn't seem to be happening so far with these kali plants but they're difficult to spot in the middle of a bud and I'm sure to miss a couple if I decide to keep these plants. I have now set up the tent again and started another grow there with some Kali clones and a few Skywalker Kush plants. I'm now debating whether to keep the 4 kali plants in the other room or not - Another 10 weeks of 400W would be a great expense if they get full of seed.. My question is, what is the most likely cause for the herma transformation? Is 31 Celcius warm enough to do that? I must say I did sneek in there a few times during 'night' cycle and let light in - could that be it? Other than that, I can't think what else it could be.. Also, do hermas always produce the male balloon thingees in the middle of the bud? If I get seed from a herma, is it going to be all female or are there potentially going to be hermas in there too? I read in the Cannabis grow bible: "The plants then self-pollinate themselves and the results are female and hermaphrodite seeds. In a special case a female known as an XX female will produce more female seeds than hermaphrodite seeds. That is how female seeds are created." So will the seeds I get from a herma for a large part also be herma? The reason I'm asking despite what it says in the book is that I read in another thread in this forum about stressing plants on purpose to make it into a herma and create female seeds, so maybe the book isn't accurate? Thanks in advance for your thoughts on this folks!