That's a strange-looking plant. I've only ever worked with indica dom strains. Is that a normal growth pattern for a sativa? I always say I want to try growing a sativa sometime, but not that, lol.
It`s what I call a "reveg" or "flower veg"
You get something like that happen when you GA3 most weed plants they kinda shoot out single to 3 point leaves
IDK maybe because sativas can flower longer there more likely to do it but it can happen in indica dom`s and hybrids can be particularly prone to it, when you have a 1st gen cross
hard to know for sure
I do know I had a mozam pure sativa I was growing that got fucked up by bugs so I ga3`d it and it shot out a bit like that but I managed to get them nodes sticking out longer then I triacontanol`ed them and each shoot turned into a branch and grew buds
this took around 3 to 4 months to happen the whole time under 12/12
but I mean that was my hobby tent when I had room to screw around for a year with some sativa and indicas and see what happened
most plants can probably do that if you use PGR`s and get lucky
I`ve made an auto go back into veg under 12/12 or maybe 10/14 using ga3
and like I said with triacontanol you can make a plant shoot more white hairs and get more buds until pretty late into flower
but I find trimming and removing old leaf takes the most time and old dry shitty leaf seems to upset your average smoker can get that dry cut grass smell
So I like plants with big round fat buds and a few leaves that are easy to trim some sweet leaf that sits under the buds is fine
what I hate is an nice smelling plant with loads and loads of leaf you can`t even get people to "try" it
Just becomes fuel for the bho cannon in the end
so I try and pick out the best ones and clone them
spot the leafy shittyone ones sooner and waste as little time as I can on them
I mean I`ve seen AK47 grow a bit like that and some pure indicas too only difference is the bud is bigger and more dense normally so its worth doing may look strange growing but looks fine once its bagged up
Just that looks like these leafy lemon kushes we got some of the top buds are fine
but really you grow them for an extra 2 to 8 weeks and you don`t get much more and what you do get is a lot of shitty lower leafy junk that`s only good for yourself or making bho with
You avarage weed snob will turn it down.. lol
Actually when you re-veg after flower or clone a flowering plant the grow a bit like that for 2 to 8 weeks then they go back to a more normal type of vegging growth
Maybe that answers some of your questions, plants retain full dna of bother sides of the family tree and can choose to grow a number of types of flowers and leafs
that's why hybrids when they get unstable can start doing all kinds of stuff stuff you normally only see in landraces or rarer plants can just happen
Sometimes its good most of the time it just means your going to have to trim good
unless they smell really dank best to just fuck them off and put a producer in their place asap