amneziaHaze
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can somebody explain foxtailing and is it bad or good how to recodnise it?
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jondamon
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Google fu not your specialist subject?
“foxtailing cannabis”
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amneziaHaze
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i saw many articles but i dont understand it maybe more photos and why is it bad?
DrBuzzFarmer
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Foxtailing is a genetic trait that comes from the sativa side of the plant you are growing.
Sometimes it is seen as a latent tendency, coming out as a stress indicator, such as when excessive light intensity triggers foxtailing.
Sometimes it is a dominant trait due to genetic predisposition such as the foxtailing seen in certain Sativa landrace plants.
Foxtailing is when calyxes pile on one another in a lateral collection upwards.
Instead of a chunky bud, you get a thin stick of calyxes.
Generally, it is seen as bad, because it ruins the perfect look of the rounded, manicured masses of identical buds in the display case.
Sometimes it is seen as a latent tendency, coming out as a stress indicator, such as when excessive light intensity triggers foxtailing.
Sometimes it is a dominant trait due to genetic predisposition such as the foxtailing seen in certain Sativa landrace plants.
Foxtailing is when calyxes pile on one another in a lateral collection upwards.
Instead of a chunky bud, you get a thin stick of calyxes.
Generally, it is seen as bad, because it ruins the perfect look of the rounded, manicured masses of identical buds in the display case.
jondamon
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It isn’t necessarily bad.
Sometimes it’s unavoidable if it’s genetic.
more often than not foxtailing happens due to high heat and low humidity in genetics that aren’t prone to foxtailing.
If it’s genetic there is fuck all you can do about it.
amneziaHaze
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any of these photos you could call foxtailing? i seriously cant recognized it....
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jondamon
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DrBuzzFarmer
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That's healthy expression. No problem there, I don''t think.
If it was the result of a stress reaction, you'd see the damage on the buds.
If it was the result of a stress reaction, you'd see the damage on the buds.
DrBuzzFarmer
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Nice eye there Kimo Sabe!
There is indeed some fasciation. rare.
amneziaHaze
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first one should be some other genetic mutation polysomething but last one i was really betting on looks strange.
anybody got photos of foxtails?
anybody got photos of foxtails?
jondamon
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jondamon
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See pic above foxtails circled In RED
DrBuzzFarmer
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I've seen it several times. Usually on plants with very confused genetics. Poly-poly-poly hybrids...
amneziaHaze
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soo when one bud becomes like a spike ball?
amneziaHaze
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pain in the ass to trim and compared to other buds was nothing special
jondamon
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Yes in simple terms that’s probably the best description.
DrBuzzFarmer
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Some landrace sativas express their buds like that.
You can compare corn to the grass that came before it for a simplistic explanation.
It's a throwback tendency - recessive genetics.
amneziaHaze
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corn?
DrBuzzFarmer
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Like the first few times you grew out a Triploid.
"This thing is gonna produce like a MONSTER!"
Nah, just about average...