so I purchased 20 seeds of super skunk, haven’t done too well but question I have is why are some with 5 leaves some with 7 and others with 9 leaves?
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Totally normal growth! Nothing to worry about.
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Indicas are a 7 leaf plant while Sativas are a 9 leaf plant. The marijuana leaf count on the less widely known Ruderalis plant is 5 leaves.
So when you get cross bred plants you can have different leaf counts. I had a plant with 11 leaves on every single leaf.
Crazy
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Genetics not stabilized. Not a Genetics expert. But to my understanding when genetics are stabilized all are almost identical. Thats how I understand it to be in the animal world and fish world. Which I have studied some.
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There could be throw backs but should be very rare.
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I’m going to disagree. I’ve seen many stabilized genetics, and I’m no breeder, but almost every single strain I’ve grown multiples of, has always had different phenotypes within the same strain.
When your parents have children, they all don’t look the same do they? Similar, but always different.
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I’m thinking like say angus beef. If you breed an angus to an angus you get an angus. It should almost always be identical to the parents.
Or a lincoln rose if bread together the results will be a lincoln rose almost aways identical to the parent. I assume this is because the genitics are satbilized.
I could be wrong but it makes sense to me from what I’ve read.
Anyway you look at it cannabis strains most anyway are not stabized. IMO. to many variants with the same name. Take girl scout cookies. Check one place and they say so and so crossed with such and such. Check another place and it says take such and such crossed with so and so. They don’t even say which was female and which was male. It does make a difference. Then there is innerbreading that can screw up stability.
I don’t know just make sense to me. Could be wrong though.
@Covertgrower
I’ll agree that those genetics are mixed, and each breeder has their own version. That’s because the original GSC strain out of Vegas the breeder didn’t say what it was bred with, so everyone pretty much everyone had to guess how to make it.
I get the stability point of view, most plants that are stabilized have similar offspring.
I think there are a few differences between them. @DRsDank
Just what I’ve seen, but I’m no breeder.
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Ya I’m just putting out things I’ve read and heard.
I am Acquaintances with my dads friends son that has a bachelor’s degree in horticulture. The family runs the local greenhouse. Sometimes I here him talk about it. They have some plants they have crossbread and stabilized that they sell.
Wish he smoked weed. All straight arrows though. The father gave my dad 5 of the first big boy tomatoes that were in the area. Way back think it was the 60s. Have also recieved different plants new to area before anyone else. Peppers, flowers, eggplant, cucumbers and several other tomatoes.
He als gave us all our plants for garden free. He would get a list from dad and plant special for him. That would add up to a few hundred plant. Son has business now and is all about money.
I get it just saying.
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Proof of unstablize genetics.
I understand about children not being all the same but if you mess with genetics as these seeds have been I would think the 20 seeds I bought from ilgm should have been at least close to the same but they are not even close, I lost a few because of differing needs and me paying attention to the whole crop instead of individual plants thinking they would be the same
Yall do understand that most beans from any site are hybrids. Sativa/Indica mixed. If looking for TRUE genetics go look for landrace beans. If a plant is a hybrid, it will always have variations from plant to plant.
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