krypto (albino) strain?

[sugabear_II]

Back in 1993 a friend of a friend at college came to visit from Florida with an ounce of weed called krypto. The buds were all super dense and resin coated but completely devoid of any of the typical green or orange hairs, instead it was a creamy white. Like you could have thought it was crack rocks someone made into the shape of cannabis buds. Not very strong smelling it was strong weed and commanded a price of $450 an oz in Florida. Iirc the legend attached was that it was grown in sewers, lol

I have read dj short's vanillaluna hase an albino pheno but all pics I have seen were variegated, not pure white.

Anyways, anybody have experience with a pure white strain?

 

[RoyalFlush]

Back in 1993 a friend of a friend at college came to visit from Florida with an ounce of weed called krypto. The buds were all super dense and resin coated but completely devoid of any of the typical green or orange hairs, instead it was a creamy white. Like you could have thought it was crack rocks someone made into the shape of cannabis buds. Not very strong smelling it was strong weed and commanded a price of $450 an oz in Florida. Iirc the legend attached was that it was grown in sewers, lol

I have read dj short's vanillaluna hase an albino pheno but all pics I have seen were variegated, not pure white.

Anyways, anybody have experience with a pure white strain?

It sounds like the bud was bleached, it was probably too close to the 1000w hps.

 

[sugabear_II]

No. I have seen light bleaching before, this was not light bleaching, light bleaching only effects part of the bud close to the light. You don't get whole healthy cola buds without cholorphyl from light bleaching. I have met a few other old heads who remember this strain as well being in texas.

 

[@hempy]

Cannabis Albinism

Albino cannabis is definitely not the outcome of proper breeding, and the exceptional times it does occur, it usually isn’t intentional. Albinism is a natural phenomenon characterized by a partial or total loss of pigmentation. This isn’t exclusive to cannabis plants; other plants, as well as animals may have albinism too. But albino cannabis plants are known to have potency levels so low, or none at all; so they’re of no use to a recreational or medicinal user.

Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for giving plants, including cannabis plants, its green color. Chlorophyll is essential to life because it plays an important role in photosynthesis, the process by which light is converted into sugars which plants use to survive. Chlorophyll in cannabis is needed to help absorb light. So while albino cannabis plants do look nothing short of magnificent, it actually occurs as a genetic issue because the lack of chlorophyll means that the plant is unable to carrying out photosynthesis. In other words, albino cannabis plants are unable to generate the energy needed to reproduce or even survive.

For this reason, the chances of a true albino cannabis plant reaching maturity is little to none. Partial albino plants, which are called variegated plants, are characterized by mild albinism such as the formation of patches of white buds and leaves while the rest of the plant is green.

Albinism in cannabis can be caused by several factors although primarily genetic and environmental in nature. Light, temperature, and growing mediums can also contribute to this condition. But genetics plays the most important role in cannabis albinism, because it’s a recessive trait due to pigmentation defects that may have been caused by mismatched chloroplast and nuclear genomes. Another major cause is hybridization, which is when breeders backcross strains to just for the positive recessive strains that they want. However, this process may lead to the expression of albino traits.

Fake Albinism

Not all white cannabis plants are true albinos. In some cases, bleaching as a result of lighting may cause cannabis plants to turn white. Also known as light burn, this can happen especially when the top leaves and buds are too close to its light source because they’re growing too rapidly. The intensity of the light can cause bleaching, but it only affects the overexposed parts of the plant.

You wont see a complete Albino plant but parts of a plant yes.

 

[Chi13]

You wont see a complete Albino plant but parts of a plant yes.

Pretty sure that's bleaching, not albino. If it was true albino more than just the end of the buds would likely be effected.
I had a plant that flew too close to the sun...

 

[@hempy]

The vast majority of totally albino plants do not thrive
That having been said, there are cases (which science has not been able to fully understand) in which the albino plants develop other mechanisms to obtain food (when they proceed from a seed). It is believed that one variety of albino marijuana could obtain its energy in a parasitic way, by depriving other plants or organisms of nutrients they had previously produced.


Albinism is real but you normally see it in cannabis in parts like half a leaf or a branch with the rest of the plant being Green.

 

[sugabear_II]

HEMPY where did that quote come from? I think I read it before.