You can just leave the bananas if single bare stamens near the top when plants are this far along. The most ive ever had from that is a couple white premies here and there. Like 10 through the entire crop lol.
And besides, if they did make a rip bean or two, this is the king of hermie flower types if you want fem seeds. Will give you the lowers rates of hermie plants possible in the feminized offspring. This kind of hermie produces female offspring with hermie rates no different then a reg cross. better then silver spraying or branch breaking either one tbh. It's just very difficult to get ripe seeds from them. If you can make S1s happen in this manner on a tuly dank plant, they are worth their weight in gold to re-grow. Basically clones in seed form.
The original gg4 S1 circulated through all the commercial facilities and dispensaries was produced rather miraculously from a single late flower bare stamen. The entire plant only produced 2 seeds. A hollow whitey and a single ripe one. So the story goes anyway.
useful info "the more ya know" style. A little hermie schoolin' if ya will.
When you break branches, the way the hermie flowers form is a bit different then the way they form on stress induced hermies and genetic hermies.
When you break branches, the female preflowers themselves will often form a little clutch of male stamen from the ovule itself and pop out of the female preflower calyx. Things like overspraying pesticides and stuff can cause this kinda hermie too. Can happen anywhere on the plant.
Spraying silver causes the plant to grow full formed male flowers where some or all of the female calyxes would have formed. They even form in dense colas like female flowers though, not all leggy like natural male flowers.
Early flower stress induced hermies produce the same kind of hermie flowers as branch breaks, can pop up anywhere, but usually on the most light deprived parts of the plant.
Late flower stress induces hermies produce single partially formed bare male stamen in the tops of the flower clusters, these are what i personally call bananas.
Genertic hermies produce fully formed male flowers within the female clusters no matter what you do, and will produce more seed that does the same. This is usually caused by not keeping track of your recessive traits while breeding. plants that stress hermie very easily in early flower, cross bred, often produce these plants in high rates in their offspring.
Which is why bagseed often produces genetic hermies along side females these days, rather then male plants along side females.
The totem pole order i personally hold for making fem seeds of high quality and good hermie resistance.
#1: Late flower bare stamen
#2: Stress tested female phenos hit with silver
#3: Branch break/stress induced early flower stamen
#4: Colloidal silver spraying without stress testing.
Genetic hermie pollen
I personally dont consider genetic hermies suitable for making fem seeds at all, even if at worst you get a 50% genetic hermie rate (they basically just replace the males in most genotypes this happens to) . And be careful forcing untested phenos to hermie with colloidal silver and pollenating other un stress tested feminized plants. Because that is how you inadvertently stack recessive traits and create genetically bound hermies without even realizing it. If you do that, it's a very good idea to make damn sure you are making an F1 and not an inbred plant (no recently shared heritage).
I test phenos for stress hermie willingness by repeatedly drought stressing and nute burning them after they recover from the drought lol. Will be doing a stress run on all my current tent phenos after this flower expression/light fem seed run. I dont like stress testing with a broken branch in flower, because even plants that dont respond well to colloidal silver will hermie from a good branch break lol. Much like bare stamen, you just dont get as many viable seeds out of a branch break as you do colloidal silver spraying.
And then ill be deciding which seeds im hunting and which im not.
All fully hermaphrodite species of annual flowering plants (most of them, cannabis is somewhat special here) evolved into that through environmental stress, reproductive pressure, and inbreeding. But that is still what creates it within populations of cannabis, environmental stress, reproductive pressure, and uncontrolled inbreeding
The more ya know....