Mutant GSC

Day 44: Today is a special day. The tent she is growing in got a couple upgrades. 1) She is now much happier under a brand new Mars Hydro FC-3000 fixture. 2) The tent now has a 21 inch (lol) house fan mounted for air circulation. I uploaded an image of the new setup. Day 45: She measures 21.5in today. I think she's about done with her stretch and buds are now beginning to take form. Day 47: Her top cola is starting to form. Day 48: I want to derail for a minute and talk about some things I did differently with this grow. This is the first plant I have tried two very different things than what I am used to. 1) This is the first plant I ever grew in any potting soil (FF HF). My other grows have been grown hydroponically in coco coir. 2) This is the first plant I didn't perform any training or alter her structure in any way, including not defoliating or pruning anything, tying down, etc. Let's talk about #1 first. In the last 3 months, I have grown approximately 40 plants in soil, across 6 strains, with this one being the first. It is the only one strain and plant that has done well with the combination of soil and feed program I provide her. Every other one experience severe stunted growth, and general unhappy-looking, although they do grow without any concerns apart from slower (which is a concern for the autoflowers of those). This plant was the opposite. It started off very slow, and began to explode when I introduced it to my feed program. As for #2... I decided this freebie seed would be a good chance to just let something grow untrained indoor to see what happens, and hope it's a short indica mystery seed. Well, it did indeed turn out to be very indica-dominant, so that's a plus, and it's height is very manageable, possibly even most of the way through it's bloom stretch already at a pretty short height, but, it looks like this is going to have a lot of dense bud sites. That leads me to the decision I am now making, which is, that I may, and probably will, do some defoliating soon. I want her to focus her energy on bud site production right now without any additional stress, but when it starts to fill out and I get an idea of what her final figure will look like, I am going to defoliate, and possibly even prune some lower branches with foliage and flowers not worth wasting the energy on. The internodes on this plant were always incredibly short for the first 6 or 7.. There's just so much going on in this little plant to make sure I keep an eye on, and I need to defoliate for that anyway. I am thinking I will give her some nice airflow with a hair cut in a few days. I'm not ready yet, but close. And for a bonus if you made it this far: Remember those little mutant seedlings that were spontaneously appearing that I just stopped talking about? Well, nothing changed...they still come, maybe less frequently, about 1-2 per day, but I pinch them off every time they do pop up. Except for the last 2. Instead of pinching the stem off, I tried something: I simply lifted the stem vertically slowly out of the soil. I was expecting the root, or a part of it to snap eventually, but surprisingly, the entire thing came out. The taproot is long...close to a foot. It comes to a fine filament at the end, with a few small root hairs branching out if you look close. I could not find a single breakage point, even for those tiny root hairs. So I tried it with the other one, same thing, and we have 2 clones, transplanted by just yanking them out of the substrate completely, and into my veg box under 2x100W. They have been growing for 3 days now, slowly. They haven't died though. A few things to note from all of this in case you were left scratching your head like me: 1) How were these seedlings able to be pulled out of the soil so easily without any damage? 2) Why weren't these seedlings' roots attached to the mother plant? 3) Why do these seedlings look exactly like the mother plant did at their age, and they were not even attached to her, and so willingly released themselves from the soil when I just yanked their stem upwards (in wet soil)? This diary is turning more and more into my questions about life, the universe, and everything. Have fun 😂