3 bladed leaves?

[Morbid Angel]

I have an unknown gifted strain that has started producing tri bladed leaves. Here is some info, some fact, some speculation:

- may or may not be one of the following strains due to situational, environmental, social circumstance and growth patterns / physical characteristics: Romulan, BC Godbud or Rockstar.
- It is an indica dominant strain.
- Highly responsive to training.
- Very tight internodes.
- short in stature, though I have never let it buck vertical.
- Smell of the bud is Coffee, Earthy, Spice in that order
- very dank, big meaty buds
- Orange hairs
- Will hermie if left in flower too long (when majority of heads are amber)
- mid - heavy yield

Story goes:
I was gifted a seed. Grew it out. Mainlined it for 8 colas. Very responsive. Medium speed growth rate. Left it to flower too long do to situation beyond my control. It hermied and seeded, only slightly. I got 3 viable seeds from the 7 oz it produced. Did not pollinate any other plants in the room.

After a few more grows of some seed bank shit that was disappointing, I popped the 3 seeds from this plant.

All three are still in veg. Same characteristics of their mother but heres the thing, had an accident when they where still little seedlings and topped one of them at the second node. It was all messed up and I thought it wouldnt last the night. Well it did and seems to be just kicking ass now. I topped it again from the main shoot that had taken over. Now it has grown out a couple of nodes since then and is producing all 3 bladded leaves from where I topped it last. Has about 4 new nodes per shoot since topping all with the 3 bladed leaves. the rest of the plant including the branches below are all producing 5 blades.
I know that if I take cuttings from these shoots they will be plants that only have 3 bladed fan leaves. I have seen and heard of certain cutting only strains having this trait and now I can see why.

I thought that this was strange, at least to me, and I thought I would ask. It may help me to identify it's strain, if its a known one. North west coast near the US/Canada border. Or maybe someone can tell me why this is happening. Maybe its not as uncommon as I think.

Thoughts?

 

[Labs Dexter]

I'm no pro.... But
In my first grow they were bag seeds and I didn't use nutes at all apart from what was in the soil but because I stressed the plant to death with excessive defoliation and heat,..

after that the one plant wich was very short and indica characteristics threw 3 finger leafs until I chopped down..

A pic of the young plant might help, but from my case I put it to too much stress and not enuff food lol so in my head it was too hungry to throw out 5 or 6 fingers lol I am a noob and only grew from last Christmas.
All is personal so I don't have to impress no one..
But the other day I have read a thread about crazy looking leafs like duck foot, 15 or 25 fingers on a cannabis leafs and a three finger plant.

If there is no signs of the plant in stress and you didn't starve the bitches like i did...
, it could be just a genetic deformity.

But I would post more pics for others who know what it's caused by and hopefully they will give you good info and better than mine. Hope it helps

 

[Dr. Who]

A plant throwing 3 bladed leaves is telling you it is stressed!
It will take longer then you think to get it throwing more.
When it begins to throw 5 leaf sets again - it's telling you it has stabilized.....

It is not the best idea to flip a plant throwing less then 5 leaf sets

Doc

 

[Labs Dexter]

A plant throwing 3 bladed leaves is telling you it is stressed!
It will take longer then you think to get it throwing more.
When it begins to throw 5 leaf sets again - it's telling you it has stabilized.....

It is not the best idea to flip a plant throwing less then 5 leaf sets

Doc

Thanks for that info
I knew it was my fault with mine lol

 

[noysy]

One of my barneys seeds has a 2 leaf, no rush to grow this one. So it can do what it feels;

 

[Morbid Angel]

15 or 25 fingers on a cannabis leafs

I have seen some outdoor monsters, ~12ft tall with leaves like this. Most blades I found was 27 on one leaf. Huge plants.

** Anyways, I will do some more investigating today, take a better look. Could very well be stressed. Hasnt really gone through anything traumatic for the past month.

I am hoping that it is some kind of mutation. I have this idea in my head of a tri bladed plant. Less shadows cast..

 

[vostok]

Cannabis generally is a diploid or has 2 chromosomes to a cell
a triploid has 3, and was in its past crossed between a diploid (normal plant)
and one altered with colchicine

the result is the extra chromosome in each cell

This in no biggy the gene is even more recessive than the autoflower gene
and difficult to breed in or out, tho you can clone her

she should not be any more or less potent than her normal sisters
but see her as having 30% more leaf matter hence 30% more efficient

I get 10% of my crop each year as a tripoids and have been
pursuing that 30% increase in efficiency for some time but its really
too random for me too catch

good luck and get a lottery ticket this week..!