Odd Stem Issue

[a206h]

Hello! The stem of my white widow plant looks so strange! All the new growth is clinging together to form one stem. Pictures attached.
Any suggestions? Do I "top" it to get the branches to split away from the main stem?

 

[Cooter]

leave it alone and let it grow

 

[caregiverken]

wow..what a trip :woot:

I bet @geologic would like to see that.

Can you take more pics?...lol

 

[geologic]

Nice--
another fasciation...

Sport Hunting

 

[caligirl]

its a polyploid defect... i had that with la chocolat strain - it was crazy - flowers were also deformed and bizarre. Id keep it going if its strong, but mine became very weak and prone to mildew. And dont top cuz it will bunch up - weird ...

 

[Full.Melt]

that's crazy..it kinda looks like celery

 

[caregiverken]

you might get a "mohawk" bud

 

[geologic]

its a polyploid defect... i had that with la chocolat strain - it was crazy - flowers were also deformed and bizarre. Id keep it going if its strong, but mine became very weak and prone to mildew. And dont top cuz it will bunch up - weird ...

I don't doubt that Polyploidal plants can be Faciated--
but I don't think all Faciated plants are Polyploidal...

 

[Sativied]

I don't doubt that Polyploidal plants can be Faciated--
but I don't think all Faciated plants are Polyploidal...

I agree, else I'm going to be really depressed for not keeping my quad poly that produced mine. ;)

@OP, check out my thread in my sig, I got one of these going now and some comments about it. In my opinion it's not a desirable trait, but I'm flowering it anyway. Your stem is even wider than mine. I considered topping it, but decided to do the opposite. Especially in its early stage the 8 or so leaves that were created simultaneously created such a thick layer that the lower branches remained skinny and short. Some of my leaves on the main stem don't come with a lateral shoot above it. I trimmed those, and most of the side shoots. In hindsight topping it early could have resulted in a more normal plant, but that also would have been the downside; I actually want to observe the mutation.

 

[Oregon Panda]

Who's white widow? Is it just a cut you got, or from seed?