Have you ever gotten a variegated plant?

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Nope....It's not a disease. The plant is perfectly healthy and, in fact, is growing faster than the other two, non-variegated phenotypes. I find it interesting. This is the first one I've ever gotten. Anyone else?
 
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What do we think variegated or messed up? Green crack auto freebie from north Atlantic seeds in a earthbox type product using build a soil products and methods. Sadly I triggered flower far too early but this is my first time with autos in ... 10 years or more so behind the curve.
 

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green_machine_two9er said:
Might take some shit for this but all I see in the thread is disease with the exception of stardogs photo looks like true variegated leaf….
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What disease are you seeing, exactly? That's what I thought at first, too, but the variegated plant is outgrowing the other two phenos by a node! They all germinated at the same time. A diseased plant typically doesn't outgrow a healthy plant. That's when I started looking into variegation. On my plant, it displays itself more as blotchy than a 1/2 and 1/2 type of display.
 
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green_machine_two9er said:
Might take some shit for this but all I see in the thread is disease with the exception of stardogs photo looks like true variegated leaf….
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I've seen it pop-up often from seed plants, not clones, that were otherwise perfectly healthy. A lot outgrow it, but the ones that carry it through maturity tend to have more of a pattern to it, because it is a genetic trait. @DMChiz mutation in his pic is thought to come from haze lines, the variegation on mine comes from chem lines.

Sure, certain environmental factors can cause it to be expressed. And those factors may be stress or not. So it's possible a viroid can cause it to express, but so could high EC. If you see that from seed in clean conditions, I wouldn't be too worried (actually not at all). Adjust your feed if you think you have an unhelathy plant.
 
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tstick said:
What disease are you seeing, exactly? That's what I thought at first, too, but the variegated plant is outgrowing the other two phenos by a node! They all germinated at the same time. A diseased plant typically doesn't outgrow a healthy plant. That's when I started looking into variegation. On my plant, it displays itself more as blotchy than a 1/2 and 1/2 type of display.
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I’m no expert in plant viroids and pathogens. We could speculate but honestly to me it doesn’t matter. Maybe I shoulda been more specific, I thought about trying to name what’s wrong but honestly woukd likely but wrong and there’s a ton of pictures of different things going on here.

But if it’s a question of disease or variegated then it’s simple to me. Disease is simply NOt(dis) at ease, anything under the sun not at ease and growing as should in proper environment. Could be viral, or pest, or even over under feeding.

Variegated to me means something like I see in a lot of my house plants or ornamental flowers. The leaf and flower patterns simply have multiple colors. And usually in a geometric, natural organic looking fashion. I think the most common example of it in Cannibus is in the stems. You see organic and natural patterns, or stripes of purple and red. Or sometimes in leaves that have a very prominent fade of blues, purples, reds. And the leaf itself has multiply colors on it in patterns.

idk, to me to label something like I’m seeing, sporadic blotchy, or white stripes randomly here or there. Or half yellow…. That all says something pathogenic or a symptom or response to something else in the environment triggering that type of symptom…

But hey, I’m just spit balling, but that’s how my mind works looking at what I’m seeing
 
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green_machine_two9er said:
I’m no expert in plant viroids and pathogens. We could speculate but honestly to me it doesn’t matter. Maybe I shoulda been more specific, I thought about trying to name what’s wrong but honestly woukd likely but wrong and there’s a ton of pictures of different things going on here.

But if it’s a question of disease or variegated then it’s simple to me. Disease is simply NOt(dis) at ease, anything under the sun not at ease and growing as should in proper environment. Could be viral, or pest, or even over under feeding.

Variegated to me means something like I see in a lot of my house plants or ornamental flowers. The leaf and flower patterns simply have multiple colors. And usually in a geometric, natural organic looking fashion. I think the most common example of it in Cannibus is in the stems. You see organic and natural patterns, or stripes of purple and red. Or sometimes in leaves that have a very prominent fade of blues, purples, reds. And the leaf itself has multiply colors on it in patterns.

idk, to me to label something like I’m seeing, sporadic blotchy, or white stripes randomly here or there. Or half yellow…. That all says something pathogenic or a symptom or response to something else in the environment triggering that type of symptom…

But hey, I’m just spit balling, but that’s how my mind works looking at what I’m seeing
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That makes a lot of sense! It’s definitely hard to confuse disease with variegation, especially when you see those ‘blotches’ and ‘stripes’ that look unnatural. Variegated patterns are usually more symmetrical and predictable, while issues caused by pathogens tend to look more chaotic.
 
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The first thing I thought was "VIRUS!"....but then, everything else about the plant was on-point. The roots are white and healthy...no necrosis of any tissue....nothing indicative of a deficiency....pH is on-point. It's just one of those "red-headed step children" that popped up out of a recessive gene in the lineage of that plant. It definitely looks rougher and more primitive....but it's growing very well so I'm going to ride it out and see what happens. I really hope it turns out to be female.
 
MtRainDog

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tstick said:
The first thing I thought was "VIRUS!"....but then, everything else about the plant was on-point. The roots are white and healthy...no necrosis of any tissue....nothing indicative of a deficiency....pH is on-point. It's just one of those "red-headed step children" that popped up out of a recessive gene in the lineage of that plant. It definitely looks rougher and more primitive....but it's growing very well so I'm going to ride it out and see what happens. I really hope it turns out to be female.
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That type of variegation is the most common I see, and is the one they all usually grow out of. Yours is on the extreme side, but I still think it will grow out of it, or at least tone down.
 
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MtRainDog said:
That type of variegation is the most common I see, and is the one they all usually grow out of. Yours is on the extreme side, but I still think it will grow out of it, or at least tone down.
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I almost culled it from the start. The other two phenotypes which came from the same batch of seeds, are not displaying any variegation at all, but they are growing ever-so-slightly slower than the variegated plant! Go figure! It's Tuna Kush which (I'm told) is originally from the Canadian growing scene and might be a phenotype from an old skunk strain. I've been searching for anything that can remind me of old school weed. This was supposed to have a reputation as being that type of strain. Even if it maintains the variegation throughout the grow, I'll still keep it as something of botanical interest to me.
 
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