I have a very strange mutant that I don’t quite know what to do with. It sprouted with only a single growth node, and developed into this bizarre thing with a stalk that looks like celery.
Unlike the other plants, it has never stretched and shows no sign of developing an apical cola. The top just terminates in a weird whorl of leaves. I thought it was a female, but figured it would either go hermie or do something strange.
I am almost two weeks into flowering, and just noticed that it’s decided to be a full male, and has suddenly sprouted several branches with male flowers (which are not open yet).
It has a very interesting pedigree, and it does have some traits that I like. I am most likely going to turn it into tincture, but I am rather tempted to try saving some pollen from it and hit a few lower branches, just for giggles and grins.
This plant has Space Queen in its background, which is why I got it- SQ is a favorite of mine, but I had been told it was a clone only strain and the original mother has been lost. It smells freaking awesome, and has very tight internodes- I just don’t know if this weird mutation is transmissible to its offspring (or if it can even produce viable progeny).
If it can throw normal offspring, then I am more inclined to let it live- but I am not sold on the idea yet. I am going to remove him from the room until I decide what to do with him.
Taking a cutting now will be difficult, as it is well into flowering. Flowering inhibits rooting, sadly.
I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s quite cool. Makes me ponder on how it would’ve reacted to some LST. If you have the space to mess around with it breeding; I’d do so.
In my current grow, I have two twins from the same seed. The first leaves was… Only one and had mutation. I leave it and they grow as if were topped. And now one appear to be male and the other female. And I am going to practice incest between twins…
If you finally let it flower, please keep some pollen.
Probably you can give some to me
no it doen´t show up only in cacti cultivation! but it is much more comon for them , as far as i know!
take a look at my avatar “superskunk cristata”
happend once to me and then never again. it was a joy wachting it grow.
any method i tried to to propagate this clone failed
iĺl push my thumbs that you will be able keep this sweety
So do you have any more pictures of it…it’s interesting. I have a strain that throws like 5 branches per node and has occasion to herm in veg. It would be interesting to compare the two.
This kind of mutation is not really the kind you’re suspecting. Think more about a deformed specimen that is dealing with it. Space queen is well know to produce a lot of occurrence of this kind. The cases of double seedlings, siamese and all variations of that in the Sub’ progeny is well known too. It stay at low rates, it’s very complicated to stabilize as a trait.
@Hippiechik, Horse is right, you can still get flowering clones to root, just might take a bit longer. I got like 80% success at rooting flowering cuts last time I tried. Did take a couple months to root and totally go through reveg, but eventually we got there. And these were dropping pollen and trying to make seed as cuttings!
