Do some plants randomly go auto?

[Giddy up]

So I have ten other plants going, They are all about a month old and have been topped about five days ago...this indiuvidual began spitting out pistils three days ago out of nowhere. If this plant is only a month old and under 18/6, then is this plant sick or something?

 

[Nugachino]

What are they first up? If they're all the same. It may be a different "type".

 

[Nugachino]

Like if say it was bred from ruderalis at some point. There may still be auto genes in there.

 

[Giddy up]

I bought a ten pack of Dutch passion fem strawberry cough and I have the last three going now...I have not seen this type of growth in any of the previous strawberry coughs or any plant for that matter, but I have noticed w the strawberry cough seeds I got that the indica looking ones seem to always have issues like self topping or hermies or in this case, pistils before being a month old lol...the sativa looking phenos generally seem fine.

If this plant did somehow find a way to go into autoflower mode, did I fuck it up when I topped it? And if it isn't autoflowering and is just some weird genetic anomaly, shouldn't I just pitch it anyways?

 

[Giddy up]

Like if say it was bred from ruderalis at some point. There may still be auto genes in there.

Yeah that's what I'm wondering...i was just thinking that If autoflower genes had made it into that particularly well known strain, I wouldn't have been the first to notice haha

 

[Nugachino]

Autos are a genetic thing. You can't make a plant auto unless you're breeding in that trait.

Could still have auto genetics in it somewhere. Genes can remain dormant for several generations before showing again.

Might just be that the plant wants to flower. What's your setup like. We need temps. Watering cycle. Humidity. Pics of the whole plant. Etc...

 

[Nugachino]

Plants are weird man. You can get things like double taproots and triple cotyledons. And leaves that grow all funked up n shite but are perfectly fine to grow with.

Hell you could probably play with that super quick bloom genetic. Try and cross it into something else. Get your own super fast strain kicking along.

 

[BudgetGrows]

I currently have three Grand daddy purp clones that, unfortunately been a little forgot about . About a week ago gave them a good veg nute solution and some better lighting. Been about a month and they have always been on 18/6 a def not an auto strain. I checked them a bit ago and they are budding. Looks like they been in flower a few days maybe even a week. I just figured it was stress from neglect and trying to keep its life cycle going. Im curious if I can still transplant or even if it it will hermie. If so, might just take advantage of the seeds.

 

[Giddy up]

Temps are 68 dark and 79-82 during lights...humidity is always between 55-70%...no nutes have been given yet...plants were all allowed to grow to six nodes, topped at third node, trimmed off first node so that 2nd and 3rd nodes remain on all plants...18/6 under T5s

What I don't get is that it's spitting pistils out everywhere, yet it isn't stretching, so it doesn't really seem like it's in flower

In nature, autoflowering is a genetic trait that comes about in response to unfavorable growing conditions (short season in Russia for ruderalis, super hot dry summer for Moroccan kif, etc) but my environment is not stressful at all, and even if it was one would think it would be happening to more than just one plant...

I'm going to chalk it up to a genetic mutation of some sort...I'll keep it around for awhile but if it makes pollen sacs or I run out of room it will be outta here.

The plant in question lives in the empty space in the middle...

 

[BudgetGrows]

Well hopefully someone can chime in and help. Seems were in same boat lol. I found two more in same batch and my flower rooms packed. Wondering if its worth setting up a quick tent for these four. Ill post if i do and well see what these ladies do

 

[MichiganMedGrower]

Contact the breeder and see if they can tell you anything. I would like to know too.

 

[JDMase]

Contact the breeder and see if they can tell you anything. I would like to know too.

Literally what i was about to add. Imagine if there's no ruderalis in the strain and this phenotype is just its own kind of auto flower. That would be cool.

 

[chemphlegm]

so, some stoned farmers are sitting around packing tiny seeds into a little zip pack to send to resellers, oops, a stray seed drops, picked up, and sealed into the bag, carry on.

 

[BudgetGrows]

Mine were clones chem