This little Blue Dream sports three leaves per node. They are very consistent geometrically with each node’s leaves rotating 60 degrees from the previous. Seems like it could be a regular thing but I can’t remember seeing it before.
Is this more likely a genetic thing or a stress thing?
He/she is getting extra love for the novelty if not any real benefit. I will be updating this as it grows. It’s with three other Blue Dream plants from the same pack so it should be easy to compare.
I had a Deep Chunk show this on one branch. Sadly, it’s not a good sign for Deep Chunk as (in that strain’s case) it’s correlated with sexually unstable offspring. Not super rare. I have seen it elsewhere but others have outgrown it.
I have 2 cuts of rugburn OG that put out tons of triofoliate leaves before putting out 5finger leaves and super dark forest green at that.My guess is its genetic.
This is quite common on the blue lines, they tend to be male from my past experiences with other strains and when I did find females I found them not to be as strong as the normal plants from the same batches of seeds.
Out of 9 seeds i planted i ended up with 2 males and 7 females. 3 of which have the whorled phyllotaxy and 1 has quadruple phyllotaxy. Also kept 1 male who is also a quadruple. Got me excited so i popped another 24 seeds to see if i got lucky or if more show up. Then this little one showed up
Some plants grow out of it and it goes away. Some keep it. Basically you just get extra side branching. And athough I dont recall seeing it specifically mentioned, one would assume that when buds ‘stack’ they would be extra dense and large.