Ever seen a clone turn into a seedling?

I started some seeds from my breeding project months ago. A few weeks after I put them in the flower room, I noticed they had brought thrips with them. The thrips came in through a window that I had been opening at night during the summer, adjacent to the veg room. I should have sprayed them and taken a few clones from each plant, but I didn't.

There were 6 females. In week 7, one of them was clearly an OG Kush on an indica frame, exactly what I had hoped to breed. I could start more seeds and get the pheno again, but screw that, this plant must be preserved!

So I took some clones off the bottom. Last time I tried that, the ones without side shoots rooted, but couldn't grow any shoots or leaves. The only one that made it had a little side shoot that grew after rooting. This time, after taking the clones, I realized that most of them had nothing that would grow. Sure enough, they all rooted, but only one or two had anything resembling a side shoot. One of them had a little tuft of flower, a few calyxes and one tiny, calyx sized leaf.

I put it in a clone tray with the humidity dome on. I figured it was probably hopeless, but if it didn't work, maybe I could still get the big plant to regrow after flowering. For weeks I've literally been praying over this clone. In the last week, I've watched the most amazing thing, the clone has become a seedling!

Maybe this is common in botany, but I've never seen it happen, so I'm pretty impressed. First it put out what looked like cotyledons, and the stem started elongating. Finally today, I can see that there are proper leaves forming.

Grape Scott OG #10 (Grapehead x Scotts OG)

Clone turning into seedling?

Those aren't cotyledons, just single leaflet leaves. Same thing happens when you clone a bud and reveg it.

Turned into a good looking place though, nice job.

Looks more like monster cropping to me not a seedling clone or something...

Someone said they thought it was called super cropping. Whatever it's called, it looks almost exactly like a seedling.

Survival..........nature never ceases to amaze

CaliWorthington said:

Whatever it's called, it looks exactly like a seedling.

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It doesn't look exactly like a seedling but I get what you mean, it's like a whole new separate plant, even opposing nodes rather than alternating I've had one of those grow out of a cotyledon once on a huge Liberty haze plant.

Yeah I figure you basically revegged the plant, isn't this what it is supposed to do when you reveg? This is because it is an annual right?

Supercropping is pinching the stalks to to bulk them up and train/height management. That's just what happens when you essentially revert a clone from a flowering plant back into veg. Can also get single bladed leaves for a while before it ever fully reverts back.

Looks like a hurting yet normal plant to me...