CANNABIS ODDITIES? -Post them here
Kingrow1
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Yes, a polyploid would make massive buds due to genetic enhancement but loss of the apical dominance would make a weird wide bud like in the picture. When apical dominance is low buds start growing at other bud sites like leaves rather than the top of the stem.
I grant most this that at face value it seems like im talking bs but thats pretty much the story of my life here recently. I wish it was polyploidy as we wouldnt be looking at weird shit tasting buds but primo massive large normal shaped buds.
HydroRed
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I aint callin you a liar or anything either so please dont take offense. Not just about the bud, but the leaf structure as well in poly and the one pictured above. Nothing growing at "not normal" or "other bud sites like leaves", but just gigantism and too many sugar leaves to count. Plus my stalk was just as his was described as well. Im fairly certain his was a poly and I am certain mine was. True poly's dont grow into large normal shaped buds, but maybe stabilized poly fruit like strawberry....yes, and even then there are usually deformations.
Kingrow1
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No doubt it initially looks like ploidy but these dont grow into massive buds as you know. The goal of ploidy was too make a bigger plant that supports bigger buds.
The bud is growing sideways more than up, when you loose apical dominance hormones a lot of side branching happens because there is no dominant top branch to suppress the side branches through hormones.
Apical dominance explains why the biggest buds grow on the tallest stems but with no control over this bud starts growing at every site it can such as leaves and stem.
Its just its apical dominance and its normally stress induced by light heat or transpiration problems.
A lot of growers call it ploidy but clearly the buds lost its will to grow upwards, i cant argue the masses. Ploidy if thats what people want it to be, start a breeding program from a clone and corner the seed market, no one will buy anyone elses seed ever again
Kingrow1
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Can i draw your attention to this thread i wrote back in 2011 with pictures where plant branches split and effectivley top themselves, shortly after this i experienced buds like yours. Whole thing was stress induced but i cant find my follow up threads with the relevant pics and info, still pretty cool if you wana see weird cannabis oddities like self topping and three leaf nodes etc...
https://www.rollitup.org/t/omg-plant-gone-crazy.448247/
https://www.rollitup.org/t/omg-plant-gone-crazy.448247/