Jimster
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I hope you are doing well through this weird period in human history and since your recent surgery.
In my years of growing, I can't say that I have ever seen as many pistils on a vegging plant. None of my old strain landrace plants do that other than a possible errant pistil , but these look like the plant is ready or beginning to flower... without the stretch, funky leaf growth, or bud building. If the plant's stems were highways, the pistils are as regular as street lights. I guess it's a combo of cloning traits, but also the gene pool getting overgrown with errant traits that keep getting re-introduced, like hip dysplasia in some dog breeds.I always take it as a sign whatever it is I am growing has some landrace genes saying hello.
In my years of growing, I can't say that I have ever seen as many pistils on a vegging plant. None of my old strain landrace plants do that other than a possible errant pistil , but these look like the plant is ready or beginning to flower... without the stretch, funky leaf growth, or bud building. If the plant's stems were highways, the pistils are as regular as street lights. I guess it's a combo of cloning traits, but also the gene pool getting overgrown with errant traits that keep getting re-introduced, like hip dysplasia in some dog breeds.
That sounds like your talking about me.Just one didn't behave as expected
One of the more notable plants that have the pistils IS a berry strain... maybe doubleberry (we call it dingleberry), but the Grandaddy Purp is pretty proficient as well at throwing them. The two that aren't showing any are an older looking strain, which is a bit more lanky... a trait that seems to be getting bred out of a lot of gene lines. The others, while different strains, are surprisingly similar looking overall. Shorter, bushier, similar growth patterns. Everything is a hybrid of a hybrid of a hybrid.Hey j , if its any help , i have 2 blueberry dominant strains , blue amnesia and an older joey weed blueberry , both refuse to grow in any light schedeule without throwing off pistils , some times a lot...
They are old clones , i think its a blueberry trait , also for some weird reason the have massive root growth , bud is average , growth is slow , but constant pistils and massive roots, always...
I also grow blue berry and the girls ALWAYS have pre flowers,nothing to worry aboutHey j , if its any help , i have 2 blueberry dominant strains , blue amnesia and an older joey weed blueberry , both refuse to grow in any light schedeule without throwing off pistils , some times a lot...
They are old clones , i think its a blueberry trait , also for some weird reason the have massive root growth , bud is average , growth is slow , but constant pistils and massive roots, always...
I also grow blue berry and the girls ALWAYS have pre flowers,nothing to worry about
I guess things have changed a little over the years. While I never had the luxury of being able to buy/purchase seeds when I started (it was just in it's infancy in Amsterdam), most if not all seeds were usually saved and coveted from bag seed. No clones were available except in very small groups, and I was fortunate to find one or two random pistils on a whole plant prior to flowering. I wouldn't call these as a few, but they aren't buds either. I guess it's akin to bananas. There used to be a bunch of different strains, but now 99% are the same and have traits that weren't original to the source plants. Similar to strains of today. Everything is a mutt. Not that mutts are bad, but after a while they look very similar.I mentioned earlier its normal to see preflowers in veg, and I have seen it in older and newer strains for the last 20 yrs.
I'm not worried about the pistils at all since I have seen them before, but the comparison I was making was that you never heard of plants throwing pistils in such a regular fashion in the days prior to the great hybridization that we are going thru. I have been approached by several seed growers aboutmy old strain Matanuska that I managed to keep going for 30 some years... but the idea of someone making cash on something that has been very closely kept over the decades... it just bothers me, I guess.@Jimster, I am with you, so much of today's varieties are very homogeneous. But I have also noticed that the best breeders out there are starting to go searching for new genetics once again and I am sure in the next 10 years we will once again have large variety in the Cannabis we choose to consume and grow.
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