I am growing Tangerine Dream from barneys, and when i took a cut it looked like this...
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I have never seen that before.
I am planning to top all my plants, would that stop the development of the three shoots instead of just two ?
What he said ^ ..
We've all had the odd tri-leafer, but sadly, most the time it's just a mutant leaf, NOT the whole plant, and you can't really clone and expect to get 3 leaves on child plants. As I was typing that line of text though, it occured to me, that I'm sure it WOULD be possible to create a strain that usually produces 3 leaves/nodes (Indeed, it has probably already been created - somwhere), but you'd have to grow masses of plants, collect seed, then germinate your next generation of plants - picking ONLY plants that display the trait, re-breeding, re-selecting, yada yada.. but then, I also have a gut feeling for some reason that you could take a tri mother and tri father, and out of 100 seeds you may still end up with NO tri babies.
Really, if three-leaved plants were 'doable'-Strain-wise, surely the big breeders would want ALL their strains to have the trait: 50% MORE of everything - you'd get - if the whole plant was a tri.