Whorled or Polyploid?

[Poolguy]

Curious what your thoughts are on this. It’s started growing normal and then this showed up.

 

[Creeperpark]

Curious what your thoughts are on this. It’s started growing normal and then this showed up.

That's an interesting-looking plant friend. Thanks for taking the time to show us. Looks like a recessive trait in the strain. It's both a whorled and polyploid plant, I see them a couple of times a year on the forum. I will flower and keep mine if it's a female and I have space but only for buds and not making seeds. Keep us posted if you flower the plant so we can see the flowers.

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[goingrey]

Whorl means at least three leaves growing off the same node. So yes it's whorled.

Polyploid means more than two sets of chromosomes. This isn't something that can be determined by looking at the plant with the naked eye. Maybe it is, probably it's not.

 

[Wolverine97]

It's whorled phylotaxy. You cannot identify polyploidy visually.

 

[Cvh]

Check out the following post and if you click the link in that post it will take you to a thread where there are pictures of confirmed polyploid plants.

As several other also commented, polyploid plants give barely visual clues. Your plant is probably a trifoliate/whorled phylotaxy and not a triploid. The mix up is usually I think in the similarities in the names trifoliate versus triploid. It sounds a bit the same but they are very different things.

sterile females are the future!

Interesting thread. I was actually wondering about sterile plants lately, because I pollinated a couple of moms a few weeks back, and while one of them is full of seeds, the other only seems to have a few. Maybe 200 vs 20 or something like that. The one on the left is a homemade og kush cross...

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