Plant looks too good - and at the same time ... bad...

Cronic_nz

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I have a couple of Blue Mystic x Bubble Gum crosses under a 400W HPS in soil. I have treated all equally with respect to ferts, watering etc. Ph is between 6.8 - 7 on all of them, moisture is fine, humidity etc all OK. However 30 days into flowering 2 of them are awesome looking and the third "sister" (all being clones) looks the part of a healthy plant - nice green normal leaves, nice height etc, but has sweet F all buds.

Why would one of the clones turn out to be a dud and the others (from the same mother) all doing OK?

So the first two picks are of my good looking but not to productive girl, and the last one is of her sister whos doing awesome. These were taken at the same time. What could be wrong with my girl?
 

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entropic

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Man those last two are really nice looking, sorry I don't know the answer but hopefully someone will respond who knows. I just want to make a lolliypop out of the 3rd one...

Good luck, although it doesn't really look like you need any.
 

zebbin

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"Clones are genetically identical. If they were not, then (by definition) they would not be clones. However, cloned organisms may differ in other ways. Consider two cloned rose bushes planted side by side. One bush may get more morning sun, but its roots may have their growth resisted more by stones. These differences will affect the metabolism and, therefore, the growth of the two plants. Even small differences will add up over time to affect their overall form. Their shoots may branch at different positions, their leaves face differently, their roots grow more or less deeply, their flowers bloom more or less often. Such individual differences are real, but not genetic. They are considered "accidents" or environmentally caused. Differences between clonal individuals will be greater in species with more complex patterns of development, since this complexity provides greater opportunity for environmental accidents."
Found this on the net, hope it helps.

Zeb
 

laserbrn

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How far along are you? There's a chance you will be surprised later on. It looks like the ones on the left have way more nitrogen than the one on the right.

This may seem ridiculous, but is there ANY chance the one on the left somehow is exposed to a light leak in your grow room? Maybe near an LED or near a crack in your enclosure? It just looks like it's 2-3 weeks behind the other.
 

Cronic_nz

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Yea this is what confuses me. All three plants look really green, although the two "doing well" are starting to yellow a bit - which from my experience they do later on as they use up the nitrogen. I even spotted a few orange hairs here and there.

But my problem one looks as green as grass (normal-cows-eat-it-grass), is a little smaller then my other ones and has basically no buds. Usually you need a magnifying glass to see the trichromes, with this you need it to see the buds. It looks healthy enough but like it's only been flowering for a week instead of 5. I don't get it.

And as for light leaks, I rotate them every week just so they grow straight and keep them sort of even, so if it affected one I thought it would have affected them all.

I would really like to know what I've done to it... so I don't do it again!
 
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