Is this a polyploid? It has branched out again

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Here is my one lil girl who started out a little weird. Then she had two shoots, one of which has split off again. Should I be topping her? Any special treatment?

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I just got done flowering a polyploid. There are a couple of genetic disorders that can cause extra growth like that. Yours looks a little different than mine did, but I train differently. There are some similarities too. I suggest not topping it as you will end up managing excess growth anyway. My polyploid isn’t dried yet, but I expect it will weigh near 1/2 pound when dried. Polyploids can be heavy producers.

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Thanks @FixerPower. Can you see In the closest photo where I think it has split again?

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Yes I can. My polyploid split mains a couple of times on me too. It’s like a self-topping.

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Just throwing this out there, according to Heavy Daze, the man that runs the pot cast, there has never been a proven polyploid in cannabis. Not a single test result that shows it exists.

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I wonder what the genetic disorder is then.

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He states some form of mutation.

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Its in the podcast “growing with fishes” which features him, not to be confused with his show “the pot cast”. He has a degree in genetics and works in the medical industry.

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Apparently all seeded plants are polyploids: it’s the expression of genetic polyploidy that you are seeing.

You see a huge number of haploids and polyploids in the Arctic where UV damage to genetic material is a very real thing so having duplicates is a survival trait.

Polyploidy has long been recognized as a key process in plant evolution and it is the subject of a plethora of reviews (for just two recent examples, see Wendel (2015) and Soltis et al . (2016)). Estimates of the prevalence of polyploidy can vary dramatically – for example, Ramsey & Schemske (1998) gave a range of 47 to 70%. The question of what percentage of plants are polyploid has been resolved, since it is now known that all seed plants are fundamentally polyploid (Jiao et al ., 2011), and most lineages have experienced multiple cycles of whole‐genome duplication and diploidization (Soltis et al ., 2015). More relevant is the percentage of plant speciation events that involve polyploidy; a recent meta‐analysis put that figure at c . 15% for flowering plants and double that in ferns (Wood et al ., 2009).

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