A plant that stresses out and produces hermies is a problem, but I've never seen good solid strains left late to produce hermies as offsrping, not once. What fucks up and creates hermies is crossing hermies to hermies or from just using plants that stress out easy and herm. By the way, you can look at almost every strain that stresses easy and you will find that somewhere along the line "Bagseed" is involved, in other words it's already got hermie in it, so you are essentially crossing hermies to hemies if you use plants that freak easy.
Letting a plant go through it's entire life cycle without pollination is not the same as breeding from a plant that freaks at the slightest light leak and it does not produce the same results. I also wouldn't say that it's lazy, in fact it's one of the harder, more time consuming and responsible ways to breed. I'm not blaming you for not wanting to try it, it doesn't produce as much pollen and it does take a long time but you shouldn't say that it's lazy or irresponsible. And it might be a solution for you with plants that don't put off good pollen your way.
Ps. I know plenty of people who say that creating ANY FEM is irresponsible and lazy. But one of High Times flower of the year plants was a FEM created with late stage pollen in exactly the way I suggest here. Their S1's do not hermie, their crosses with other hermies get 25% hermies and that is exactly what is to be expected no matter how responsible you are.
Not to rant, I just don't want people thinking that late stage pollen is the same as getting pollen from a light leaker because it's not. We are creating stress when we create FEMS, it doesn't matter if we use a chemical solution to do it or by fucking with it in any other way, it's still creating a stress on the plant that makes it freak out and produce pollen. In nature the late stage pollen is it's natural way of creating offspring when no male is around to do the job.
