Extra Grow Tips, Where we are Expecting Sex Organs - What's that Called ?

[St. Phatty]

These are pictures of my neighbor's plants. I gave him some Candyland x Apollo, he's growing them out.

Everything was normal, until we got out the magnifying glass to do the Peeping Tom routine, and check out the sex organs.

Where we were expecting to find nascent pistils or pollen bumps -
GROW TIPS !

2 extra sets of grow tips - at almost every inter-node (will get a better count on that.)


The terms "Tri-ploid" and "Quadra-ploid" seem to imply things about genetics that we don't know at this point.

He had a friend over, also with some experience. That friend seemed to think it was a sign of female genetics, said he had seen it before, and summarized it as "you got 4 females."


I figure botanists have a term for this - when sex organ sites output growing tips.


http://www.420magazine.com/forums/frequently-asked-questions/179844-quadraploid.html

One guy went ahead and coined the term "Quadra ploid".

However, I think it's a little premature to make that call.

First picture shows it.

Second picture shows the grow set up, 4 Candyland x Apollo, now about 16 inches high. About 40 days old.


What do botanists call that type of growth ?

 

[Betterhaff]

If there’s more than 2 leaves or grow sites per node it’s called whorled phyllotaxy. Normal for cannabis is opposite or alternating (when mature) phyllotaxy. Whorled with 3 leaves or growth sites per node is more common. A lot of plants grow out of it. And a lot of them tend to be males.

 

[amanda88]

Excellent find Phatts, tho I tried to breed my 'Trifoilate'...I since found it was a recessive gene, thing, tho in hindsight I could have crossed her with a clone of herself ...but that was too freaky, good luck

 

[MJPassion]

If you've got more than a pair of leaves at each node it's called whorled phalotaxy, as suggested by Betterhaff. Some people call it "trifolate" but that's technically incorrect.
Trifolate is defined as "having 3 leaflets."
Clover would be a good example of a trifolate plant.
I've seen one cannabis leaf that consisted of 13 leaflets.

 

[Sovereign]

Just looks like that's where it was topped early on..ink just my opinion

 

[trichrider]

looks topped to me too.

fim does that on occasion.

 

[Sovereign]

looks topped to me too.

fim does that on occasion.

Ty I was thinking that but couldn't remember that term lol..I thought and thought...uh...

 

[St. Phatty]

looks topped to me too.

fim does that on occasion.

All 4 plants were topped.

1 had an attempt at FIM'ing.

A few of them are displaying the extra grow tips. (dozens of un-planned grow tips sprouting where we are looking for Pistils, in the sex node location.)


I think it will be helpful (and COOL) to have a pic. when the extra grow tips have, well, grown a bit more.

Thanks for the replies !

Seems logical to expect lots of branches.

 

[ganjygav]

I had this happen with my last plant outdoors,it was a bubblegum. I panicked when I 1st see them popping up,I mistook them for hermie traits and pulled the 1st ones off lol

 

[St. Phatty]

I had this happen with my last plant outdoors,it was a bubblegum. I panicked when I 1st see them popping up,I mistook them for hermie traits and pulled the 1st ones off lol

How did the rest of the BG turn out ?

Seems like a Bubblegum - with extra branches - seems like exactly the situation you want to have.

In our case, the plants are taking extra time to show sex.

We lose sun quickly because of a mountain location.

I still like the plant, but it's not suited to a short grow season.

 

[ganjygav]

It did ok for outdoors in the UK but them extra bits didn't add anything really to the yield just a couple of fluffy bits of bud. Mine where half way down the plant and didn't come away from main stem,maybe if I had bent the plant over and exposed them it might have made more of a difference