Could It Be A Strange Strain?

I'm currently growing 3 plants from bagseeds saved throughout the years all in the same pots, getting the same water, with the same MG soil (see my sig for my grow journal). Two are growing quite normally (minus for one having "twister" like leaves) but the third is very strange. She's always been a kind of yellow in the center and now that they're all 3 weeks old, even the new growth is a yellowish. Also the leaves (or what there is so far) are skinny and strange looking.

She seems healthy and continues to grow. Also she's got a great root system going and is about ready to be put in her new pot.

What do you guys think? Could it be a strain thing?

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looks healthy, broadleaf is indicative of indica...you been x breeding at all?

pepperbelly said:

looks healthy, broadleaf is indicative of indica...you been x breeding at all?

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Broadleaf?

No cross breading. Just seeds I've saved from bags for years

Interesting plant. Pics are good enough to see it's certainly healthy. The yellow color isn't really a shade that's consistent with an unhealthy seedling anyway. If growth speed is good and everything but the color is normal, sounds like a unique plant you've got. Not necessarily a strain thing though. May or may not be an indica though. Back in the early '80's a breeder sold me a well rooted Thai clone for $50 that was the real deal. He told me it was from the best of his stock that included some dynamite old school Pakistan and Kush. I wasn't impressed with the plant at all at first. She was very slow growing and tempermental with incredibly thin and long bladed fan leaves that were a sickly yellow in color no matter what I did though the plant was quite healthy looking otherwise. She took forever to bloom out to maturity, long after everything else in my converted spare bedroom grow finished. The buds were thin, light and airy though eventually swelled up and covered with trichomes late in flowering. But I have to admit she was indeed quite a surprise in the long run. Far better than anything else I cropped that harvest and still stands as some of the best bud I've ever grown.

It's always grown slower than the other two I have. Here's them



Always been a little smaller but at the same stage as my other two

Long as you can afford the space to keep her despite being slower, it might be worth seeing what she'll do later on. I've had seedlings that were slow out of the gate but changed to a keeper once out of the seedling stage. Had a Hindu Kush last year that looked female at first, then disappointed me with those little crab claw looking early male flowers at a few nodes a week or two later, and then reverted ultimately to a rubust female after a few more weeks. Wierd! There's always the chance you'll run into something few have ever seen before.

It's actually gone from the one that we were worried about to the one we're most excited about now lol. Hoping it keeps the coloring and ends up female.... Might make for some dank lookin bud porn!!

some times new growth comes in yellowy like that, it should green up in 24hrs. yellow leaves at this stage usually are N deficient. watch for burning as most MG soil contains time released nutes that are released at random times in random doses and are hard to control. the curly leaves are normal, i have see the first set of single blade leaves look all kinds of retarded, especially dj short gear, and it always turns out great.

Thought I'd update this. Plant is almost 3 weeks old now and all the strange coloring is gone and is turning into a normal looking (but short) MJ plant

that plant doesn't look evenly watered. some of the leaves are showing moisture stress. try letting it dry completely and evenly watering the whole pot. if you only water the middle you're going to have problems with dry pockets once the roots spread out more.

Yes, I WAS overwatering I found out earlier, that and there was too much heat on them..... both have been fixed

ZipDriveX said:

Yes, I WAS overwatering I found out earlier, that and there was too much heat on them..... both have been fixed

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good to hear you fixed that. if u dont mind me asking what kinda lights you running? and about over watering, an easy tip is to lift the container before and after u water to get a feel for what the weight is of dry and wet soil. between that and the plant showing you signs of being thirsty, you will be all good on watering

JCashman said:

good to hear you fixed that. if u dont mind me asking what kinda lights you running? and about over watering, an easy tip is to lift the container before and after u water to get a feel for what the weight is of dry and wet soil. between that and the plant showing you signs of being thirsty, you will be all good on watering

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I'm running 6 26w 5000k CFL's and 2 26w 2700k CFL's. I've got the whole "dry and wet weight" thing down now, but my problem before was (besides using MG soil) was that I filled the smaller cups FULL of water until there was water seeping into the drip trays..... every 6 days for the first couple weeks...... oops....

Here's my grow, I just took this video 15 minutes ago

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She looks sad, maybe your not giving her enough lovin lol

Forgot to mention, the "Plant In Question" is the center one in the video named Belle.

you might want to consider a small nitrogen fert to speed up veg growth

I've got the GH Flora 3 Part series nutes on order that should be in within a week but I don't plan to add any nutes for a few more weeks still.

Another added pic. She's turning weird again!!

[FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Alright, Belle has always been the oddball plant and she continues to be.

Why is her top node so strange looking compared to the others anyone know?

The first pic is of weird Belle, and the second is of the normal Tiana


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