Okay so I bought both of these seeds from ilgm they’re both supposed to be autoflowering white widow. I don’t really believe that they are the same at all because the plant has completely different characteristics and colors and leaf patterns and leaf size I mean they’re just completely different strains you can tell.
Plants from seed, even same genetics, have variances. These are called pheno types. Granted Fem seeds are pretty consistent, there are differences. The only way to avoid it is cloning one cultivar. Autos can be vastly different from each other. Short, tall, small, big, green, purple… you name it.
Most people will say… well, how often are twins born? There are difference between siblings.
Variety from seed is endless. This is why it costs to get clones from popular breeders. If you want specific aspects, plant a lot, find the one most appealing to you, and clone it. Of course not with autos. They are a gamble if you aren’t dialed in. And this is every single seed source/breeder, not just ilgm. It’s normal.
Okay I guess you’re right but I’ve grown autos before and I’ve never seen this kind of variation. Wonder if they actually gave me a white widow Auto because the second one was a replacement sead for a seed that didn’t germinate. Go figure it came out completely different even during veg phase the stems on the green one were like juicy and soft but on the blue one the stems were more like Woody and green. I did notice when I was growing the second one the green one that it gave me a weird leaf pattern on the third node look like it was giving me the thumbs up or something I didn’t know what was going on I figured it was some weird genetical thing. But it never carried on into the other nodes. The only difference in subtrate is pot size really both plants get the same amount of vag except Bloom newts are starting on the blue plant. This is only my first indoor grow I’ve only done outdoor grows. So I’ll take some more pictures close up and maybe you can tell me what I’m doing wrong because I’m sure there’s a lot of things that I’m doing wrong.
Same thing happened with me with my Autoflower White Widow girls. I grew 8 at one time and there has been observed variations also. I discussed this in myNewbie White Widow autoflower thread. I finally attributed the differences as plants are hybrids. Like fraternal twins.
As said there are different phenotypes, and that is a roll of the dice… Also it’s highly unlikely that all the seeds from a seed bank came from the same mother plant especially for autos… Also when you take a photo strain and cross it with an auto strain to get that new auto, you introduce a whole other set of random genetics that carry over from the auto… That said to get a more stabilized and consistent new auto strain it can take years of dedicated select crossings… But again, this is complicated by autos, as you can’t simply clone a single mother (or mother-father pair) and work with them, you are basically working with cross you fingers seeds and rolling the dice every generation… And of course, there could always be cross-contamination during pollination or simple whoops while sorting and packing seeds… That isn’t to say that eventually very stable and genetically similar autos can’t be created, it just takes more time vs what it does for photo-period plants that are already stabilized and can readily be cloned vs having to go back to seeds…
Also is it bad to put fluorescent tubes on the sides of the plant to give the lower branches and buds more light I have these extra fluorescent tubes which actually illuminate the bottom of the plant pretty brightly. Along the 250 watts of LEDs on top.
I do side lighting on everything I grow indoors, been doing it forever, and it really helps out when overhead lighting is the weak link in your growth setup or you have a dense vertical grow that starves the lower branches of light vs a horizontal spread-out grow… Side lighting also helps out a lot when you are not growing in a reflective tent like you are doing, or when you don’t have the best lighting overall… For some of my other indoor grows (not marijuana) that are really dense foliage that creates a ton of lower shading, I will actually drop pendant bulbs on wires in a cage down into the canopy between plants to get more lighting to lower leaves from the side, as well as doing what you did with florescent tubes on the walls…
IMO the only real negative is the extra electricity cost…
My crazy ultimate plan at one time was to create a dusk to dawn half round track light that the lights road on, to get the full ‘East to West sunrise sunset kind of effect’ and supply all angles of light combined with the plants being on a slowly rotating ‘lazy Susan’ so that each day the plants would get light from all angles I know you can get straight light tracks, but I wanted to up the game and use a domed track… Possibly something I will work on in retirement just to keep busy…
It happens iv got 2 going outdoor that it would be hard to say there the same strain however i pulled the seeds myself so i know there from the same plant, its awsome you get variety because just like looks they will also have different high witch is never a bad thing