I’m very new to growing and this is just an auto that I wanted to test out from mephisto genetics. I wasn’t aiming for a large harvest or anything like that.
The thing looks like a Christmas tree and only has 3 fan fingers. All the buds are growing on the main stalk.
I mainly just wanted to check out the different breeders out there, but this is new/odd to me.
Does this seem normal? From what I can find it kind of looks like a ruderalis plant.
Flowers will develop at the nodes as well as the tips of the plant.
White widow and some other strains from warmer climate only have 3 fingers fan leaves.
Thanks. This one was HubbaBubbaSmelloscope. Everything I have grown thus far, has always branched out to the more typical plant you see. This one it’s just sticking right up against the main stalk, kind of like a single giant cola but for the whole stalk. Nothing is growing anywhere else, except those 3 finger leaves.
So you think this is strain related more so than something I have done related?
You’ll get more consistent results growing photos.
So I reached out to the breeder and asked, they said that it’s a mutation and likely due to the soil/growing conditions, that they haven’t ran into this with any other customers.
I’ll pop another one and see what happens.
Of course they did. They want to you perceive the product as good and blame it on you instead. Not a very good marketing strategy to blame your customer, but whatever. I see no evidence of significant problems with growing conditions. Quite the opposite, as poor growing conditions will not produce this problem.
Autos produce inconsistent results due to the ruderalis gene. Here are a few samples that are flowering from over the years here in the forum.
I’ll add too that the state of the plant isn’t the seed company’s fault (nor your’s.) It is just the nature of autos at times.
I appreciate the information and that makes total sense. those photo’s definitely make me feel better about it. When I looked up ruderalis plants I didn’t really see any that looked like what I was looking at.
I was hoping for Christmas in September, but not the way this plant imagined it! haha.
I’ll give the other seeds a go and see how it goes. Thanks!
Let’s hope that they perform better for you.
Happy growing.
So this is what it ended up doing… I’m still a little on the fence with what to do with it. All of these other example images still look like typical buds to some degree, this- this looks like a bunch of tiny leafs rolled around each other with hairs in the middle.
Kind of like the entire plant is fox tails. I’m at the point of dry/cure or toss.
What would you do?
By the way I found the tag on it when I planted it, I was wayy off for what this actually was. It’s a “do-si-do” from growers choice seeds. The HBSS actually turned out great and currently curing.
@MidwestGuy sorry to bother, but don’t these buds look a little funky? Have you seen something like this?
