I grew out two clones to sex mothers I have. They started flowering fine, but Both hermied. Will other clones taken from these plants be likely to hermie also?
I don’t think the age of the pollen would make any difference in it creating hermies. It’s either viable or it’s not. If the strains were stable then the only factor I can see coming into play would be environmental stress. But that’s assuming the genetics were stable and not prone to hermie.
Genetics give/show off hermies traits (at a higher % than environment or ending harvest trigger, not saying plants don’t) so if you see multi pheno of same strains doing that in early to mid term flower.
The 2 strains were stable but that doesn’t meant there isn’t hermit traitors in their genes down the line. Some things skip a generation or multiple generations. But if it hermed (not throw a banner in late flower, but actual balls) then it will always herm.
I had a Hulk Smash from Darkhorse Genetics, pollenated it with Guptilla from Colorado Seed Co. Both were stable by themselves. The only stress I can think of is that I had to tie the tops down, they were getting too tall.
No worries, I got rid of them, and started new seeds. :)