ive been growing pot for over two decades, but I have never seen two plants come from one seed…until now.
I started some f3 g13nl2 x ogers kush. Beans all looked totally normal; there were no indicators that this seed would be different… See photos. two sprouted from a single seed. i planted them and once both came up, i separated them and re-potted them… few weeks later, they look fine. One tall (probably a male) and one short (probably a female). So its not a problem, per se, but it does raise the question of why?
I understand this is rare, but you’d think i wouldve seen it at least once before. I’ve made millions of seeds during my career. I started using mammoth p in summer 2017 or so, but thats the only radical difference. I never give it to seeded plants only sinsemilla, but a while back, I did have excess mammoth P water leftover after watering, and rather than toss it and go get plain h20 for the seeded plants, i got lazy and used the mammoth p water on a few of them. Its an excellent product; i love it and am hoping that its something else that i did wrong or some other reason.
Double g13/ogers seedlings came from plant that watered with my sinsemilla flowering water mix. Another seeded plant that got watered with that, was m10/ecsd f3, seeded with p1 pollen (for the BX)… in that batch i got a couple of “heart-shaped” seeds. double seeds, that were developing into two seeds but failed to fully separate. I havent cracked any but i am going to, to see. I got two heartshaped seeds out of over 1,000 seeds.
It’s important to note that only these two batches were weird. Previous generations of these strains had no issues. Other seeded plants have not shown any weird seeds either. Seems isolated to the two that got mammoth p. But i doubt that is the cause. I think its something that just happens. perhaps low integrity or drift, or its a numbers thing… Meaning one in a million will be weird, and i just happened to find it, like finding a 4 leaf clover…
Yes! This happened to me once. For mine, I didn’t use the paper towel method and two sprouts came up from the same seed. Ultimately, one strangled the other out, because their roots were so intertwined.
I think the strain might have been Dr who, but I can’t recall for sure.
The 3rd one I have seen this year, normally you get 2 roots 1 plant or 1 root 2 plants and one dies off. I have never seen 2 roots 2 plants, looks more like conjoined seed pods, rather than identical twin plants from one seed.
yeah it was two embryos inside one shell, just that the seed itself appeared to be a perfectly normal looking seed, no sign of separation, no indentation or irregular size or shape…nothing to indicate it might be conjoined pods… I guess nature is weird like that, lol.
I’ve had a seed that sprouted two separate distinct plants like that (lemon skunk hybrid). I’ve also seen two kinds of conjoined twins, one that had two taproots like that but grew with the base of the stem melded together (faraona fem free seed from kannabia), and one that grew with a wide corrugated stem that had 4 branches at each node, 2 of which were fully male with thin leaves and 2 of which were fully female with wide purple leaves (durban pie). I also have a heart shaped seed like that which I haven’t popped (cherry kush).
I certainly haven’t been growing as long as you or started as many seeds, it’s surprising I’ve seen this many twins. I would consider most conjoined twins very undesirable. I don’t have a problem with 2 embryos in one seed. I have never seen twins in seeds from any of my personal breeding projects.
like when a double egg yellows in one eggshell you had twin seeds, in one shell. I had seen a couple instances of this growing up on the farm. you might get two tomato plants, or okra stalks out of one seed (very rare) that is cool.
Among other crops twins can be used to find double haploids. Sometimes one of the plants is an apomict of the mother plant, either a double haploid or a clone of the mother.
Have never seen this or read about it until this thread, and now I have two double seedlings in my garden. A Jungle Spice F2 and a Jungle Spice x Black Domina from lefthandseeds.
I should probably kill the weird runty ones but I’m gonna let nature take its course:
