are seeds from pollinated plants female

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I been reading posts here that due to stress plants will produce seeds but they will be hermies. I also have read this...

Apoximis: easy propagation of high yielding hybrids​


Plant reproductive biologists of KeyGene identified a DNA region from dandelion that is essential for apomixis, the process that enables plants to clonally form seeds without fertilization. This breakthrough in apomixes research was reported in a paper in the Special Issue of the journal Genes on the 'Molecular Basis of Apomixis in Plants'.
Introducing apomixis into a broad range of commercial crops will radically change plant breeding and seed production. Crops that possess apomixis can form seeds without fertilization. Seeds from such plants have exactly the same genetic make-up as the mother plant that produces them. This allows the easy propagation of high yielding hybrid varieties that are critical to feeding a rapidly growing world population

so in plants without individual sexes and have both pistals and stamens , I assume they would be kind of like hermies naturally..... if the seeds is basically a exact clone of the mother in terms of genetics and for those types of plants being hermie wouldn't be an issue like it is for us. does this make sense or am I over thinking this...thx
 
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Chevylvr66

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All of my females had a few seeds this year. Is it safe to assume that these seeds will produce normal female plants?
 
sromes1

sromes1

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I'd assume if thru apoxmis they would be female but not idea how many average number of seeds are produced thru apoximis. I saw no indication of pollen sacs on my 12 short plants and I got 2 lb of buds , 1.5 lb of trimmings and pop corn buds , that i'll use for canna butter and got about 75 seeds so is that a high amount for the quantity? Also don't know is stress is what triggers apoxmis or it is because they weren't pollinated and its the plants way to continue the species by making assexual produced seeds???
 
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Chevylvr66

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I found 5 seeds so far on a 10ft. Plant. 1 to 3 on other plants. Just wondering if they are safe to use for next year's crop. Limited to 4 in my state so want all 4 to be female .
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