Random purple pistils on 1 isolated bud?

[S. African grower]

Hi everyone, I'm wondering why my 2month old has started to get purple pistols on one of the smaller buds. This is no fancy strain and I have about 5 others with no purple pistils.. Is this just a lucky pheno or can this be done to any strain by lowering Temps at night? I'm in south Africa so it get pretty warm in the day so maybe the temperature change at night has triggered this? Or is it Deficiency ?? There are no insects or bugs on my plants.. Ill attach photos of it and another plant from the same batch of seeds.. Can anyone tell by the picture if it is a pure sati a or indicia or hybrid? Thanks

 

[Bud1284]

Hi everyone, I'm wondering why my 2month old has started to get purple pistols on one of the smaller buds. This is no fancy strain and I have about 5 others with no purple pistils.. Is this just a lucky pheno or can this be done to any strain by lowering Temps at night? I'm in south Africa so it get pretty warm in the day so maybe the temperature change at night has triggered this? Or is it Deficiency ?? There are no insects or bugs on my plants.. Ill attach photos of it and another plant from the same batch of seeds.. Can anyone tell by the picture if it is a pure sati a or indicia or hybrid? ThanksView attachment 4189617 View attachment 4189618 View attachment 4189621 View attachment 4189623

Most probably lucky pheno there - i have never heard or seen pistils turn purple because of stress nor do i think it is cause of bugs neither.

I would say its an Indica dominant hybrid - See picture of my sativa dominant lady

 

[clouds]

i can only go by my plants and i get purple when my plants are happy outside found out my GG#4 pheno when outside will do purple when its feed at a higher rate and when she got more light from the sun but feeding the same inside with lighting she never turned purple i would never of known if i did not take her outside

 

[Herb & Suds]

Some great weed came out of Mexican regs ...ya never know

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

are the temps starting to drop at night? cold nights will cause a lot of plants to express color.

 

[S. African grower]

I think some of my plants are either natural hybrids or pheno's? Cause most mass grown weed here is sativa but they do grow indicas amongst them so an indicia could have pollinated the sativa hence some of my trees showing outright sativa traits while others are showing some classic indicia traits..(less stretchy and more dense buds) seeds are from the same batch.. these plants are all 2months old exactly.and grown in similar conditions
*strait up sativa pics first followed by ones with indicia traits..

 

[S. African grower]

The Temps drop about 7degrees at night.. I was wondering if I should try lower it more at night and see what happens

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

sativas can express color just like indicas, it's a genetic trait, something to do with mineral content and temperatures

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

The Temps drop about 7degrees at night.. I was wondering if I should try lower it more at night and see what happens

i wouldn't push it, the temps that trigger color change are already close to the point that growth slows down.

 

[S. African grower]

I'm not too worried about yield in this batch so maybe experimentation wouldnt be a bad idea.. Cause I'm not going to grow these seeds again as I've recently got some purple afghan which I'm going to be growing in quality soil.. Those plants are doing surprisingly well given the poor soil.. If I can pull more purple out them maybe I'll keep that gene going. Good idea or utter garbage??

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

any time you're not worried about yield, feel free to experiment, just make sure the experiments are designed to get reliable results.

 

[S. African grower]

Although I doubt that if I get more purple out it will become a genetic trait.. Propably just a pheno and it'll be gone come the next generation ...what do you think

 

[S. African grower]

Cause it's only the pistils that are purple . These will change before harvest I assume

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

it's already a genetic trait. it's dormant in a lot of plants because they're grown indoors and the temps never fall enough to trigger the response. have no idea how much color will express, and no idea if it's that strain, that pheno, or just that mutant plant. have to grow a bunch of the same strain in the same conditions to see if its a reliable trait

 

[S. African grower]

Great knowledge. Makes sense thanks