Orange Burmese: Biggest axillary calyxes I have ever seen

Okay I am not sure that "axillary calyx" is a real botanical term but I'm talking about those structures where you usually see the first sign that a plant is male or female. They are usually near the site where a branch grows off a main stem.

I'm growing Orange Burmese by Equilibrium Seeds in LA County and I noticed these giant calyxes that are about as long as my thumbnail is wide. These are separate from the "normal" flowers that have white hairs. The weird big calyxes don't have any hairs... or "bananas" either. So I'm not even sure it's correct to call it a calyx.

Another thing I have never seen before is curly leaves at the tops. This started after the plants began to flower.

The curly leaves on this strain are so weird I at first thought I was seeing caterpillars. Sometimes they remind me of "fiddleheads" on ferns.

Another grower who I collaborate with suggested that the weird traits I'm seeing in the Orange Burmese could simply be due to sativa genetics (foxtailing) or because I used alfalfa pellets as fertilizer. Alfalfa has plant hormones in it. Supposedly SuperThrive includes some alfalfa extract.

Also, thanks to whoever moved this thread. I was not sure if posting it here would be appropriate so I put it in the "general" category.

That leaf curl is super interesting. Great shot.

The flowers in sativas are usually the smallest. All the landraces I grew (real landraces) had really little flowers. The ones you show are full grown flowers and they are really big. But yes, sometimes these "axillary" flowers look like bigger than the usual flowers. I guess that being isolated has something to do with it. They are real flowers, you can pollinate them and get a seed.

Yeah those are huge! Very weird

I’m posting these pictures of the Orange Burmese plants in case anyone is curious about what they grow like in SoCal during winter. Your mileage may vary. Also I tested some prematurely harvested flowers from a couple branches I broke by accident and they hit me like the proverbial sledgehammer. I don’t think this strain is what most stoners would call a sativa experience, but again someone else might get a different “entourage effect”

Another odd characteristic of this strain is that one plant appears to have “topped” itself. The main stem stopped growing after it got to be about 4.5 feet tall and the side branches grew until at least one of them was “taller” than the “leader” branch. I have never seen a cannabis plant do that.

Okay I will try posting this image of the plant that “topped” itself. I tried to do it in the previous post but it got messed up.

Did they finish?