Polyembryonic/Tricotyledonic Gary Payton

KanOrganics W1 Week 1 is in the books for the 45-gallon bed / AC Infinity Ionboard S33 run, and the seedlings are still carrying the same strange little story they started with. This one came up as a polyembryonic pair, with the smaller twin also showing tricotyledony, which made for a very unusual start. A week later, the larger twin is clearly the dominant one, but the smaller one is still hanging on and keeping things interesting. So far it's very much a tale of one seed trying to be two plants and negotiating that arrangement in real time. At the moment they're still in the 1L pot for a little longer. I'm expecting about another day or two before transplanting them into the 45-gallon fabric bed. I'd rather wait until I see roots on the bottom of the pot, with them looking for more room, than to rush the move just because the big container is sitting there looking impatient. The larger seedling is the obvious frontrunner right now. It has better size, more momentum, and generally looks like the one most likely to take over if left entirely to its own devices. The smaller twin is still noticeably behind, but it doesn't look finished yet either. Since that one is also the tricot, it still has some potential to surprise me if it can get enough light and avoid being completely overshadowed. That’s really the main thing I'm watching at this stage: not root competition, but whether the smaller one gets buried in the canopy race before it has a chance to establish itself. Once they go into the 45-gallon bed, I should have plenty of room to work with, and if the larger twin starts getting too ambitious later on, training should solve most of that problem. As for the big bed waiting on deck, I spread a healthy dose of cover crop seed mix into it yesterday, and have better watering it twice per day. So far we have tiny sprouts. By the time these get transplanted, it should look like a nice little green nest for them to snuggle into. So W1 is mostly a continuation of the opening theme: still weird, still interesting, and still too early to call. One twin is ahead, the tricot runt is still in the game, and the transplant into the big bed is just around the corner.

KanOrganics W2: One Twin Takes the Lead Week 2 is done for the 45-gallon bed under the AC Infinity Ionboard S33, and the strange little twin experiment is starting to sort itself out. The pair has now been transplanted into the 45-gallon fabric bed, and the larger twin has very clearly taken control of the situation. At this point it is the main plant by every metric: larger leaves, stronger posture, more momentum, and a much more obvious presence above the cover crop. The smaller twin is still there, still alive, and still technically part of the story, but it is very much the understudy now. That doesn’t make the whole thing any less interesting, though. This still began as a polyembryonic seed, with the smaller twin also showing tricotyledony, so even if the outcome is starting to look less evenly matched, it is still a fun example of how chaotic early plant development can be. Sometimes the weird seed gives you two contenders. Sometimes it gives you one clear frontrunner and one scrappy little side quest. The move into the big bed seems to have gone well. The larger twin looks comfortable and has started settling into the new space, while the smaller one is still hanging on in the shadow of its sibling. I’m still not especially worried about root competition in a container this large. The real issue remains light competition, and that dynamic is now obvious enough to see. The bigger plant is already claiming the visual center of the bed, while the smaller one is tucked off to the side trying not to get swallowed by the canopy arms race. I began low-stress training the larger one, pulling it to the side, but as it is very short with tight internodes, it isn't helping much yet. The cover crop is also coming in thick now, which makes the bed look great but adds one more layer to the seedling jungle. It's doing what cover crop does best: making the whole surface look alive, vigorous, and slightly like the cannabis plant has been dropped into a tiny meadow. So W2 feels like the first week where the direction of this little experiment became clearer. The twins are both still present, but the larger one is now the obvious leader, and the smaller mutant sibling is fighting for relevance from underneath the leaves. Still weird, still worth documenting, just a little less symmetrical than the opening act suggested.

KanOrganics --- W3: Topped the Bully, Added a Roommate Week 3 was the first time this bed really started to feel dynamic instead of just unusual. The twin situation is still the main story here, but the balance changed a bit this week. The larger twin had been tied over already, and I went a step further and topped it to open things up and give the smaller one a better chance at light. That seems to have done exactly what I wanted, because the smaller twin responded by putting on a lot more growth. It is still the smaller plant, but it no longer looks like it will suffocate. That makes this week more interesting than the last one. Earlier on, the larger twin looked like it was just going to dominate the bed and leave the tricot runt buried underneath it. Now there is at least some pushback. The larger one is still ahead overall, but after getting more light, the smaller one has started to look like an actual participant in this experiment. The other big change is that this bed picked up a new roommate. I transplanted in an AJ’s Sour Diesel clone (the real NYC Diesel), because I didn't have another place for it and I wasn't going to let it die sitting homeless in a solo cup. So now the 45-gallon bed is no longer just the twin experiment. It has become a slightly chaotic shared household, which honestly feels pretty appropriate for my usual runs. Right now the clone looks like what it is: recently moved, a little lanky, and still settling into the new space. The twins, on the other hand, already own the bed and are deep into their sibling rivalry. The cover crop is still doing its dense little meadow thing, though the bed looks less like an overgrown green carpet now that the cannabis has more visual presence above it (and also I mowed it down to the soil with scissors THREE TIMES because it grows about a foot tall every 2-3 days). Overall the whole setup feels more alive this week.

KanOrganics --- W4: Ground Huggers Filling Out Week 4 was mostly about light management, because both plants in the bed really took off. The twin situation is still the focus here, but this was the first week where both plants stopped acting like strange oversized ground cover and started behaving more like actual canopy plants. For the longest time they were both low riders, sprawling across the soil surface with huge leaves and very little height. This week, that finally changed. Both plants more than doubled in size, and the larger one especially started pushing shoots up above the canopy instead of just spreading outward. The bigger plant is still the dominant one overall, and its structure is becoming pretty ridiculous in the best way. The trunk on it is already enormous, honestly thicker than a lot of plants I grow by the time they're finished. It has clearly decided that subtlety is not part of its genetic toolkit. Because of the amount of growth this week, I had to step in and keep the bed from turning into a leaf monopoly. I ended up tying down three of the larger plant's reaching shoots, and also pulling the two main plants away from each other, for a total of five tent stakes in the bed now. The smaller tricot also finally needed to be tied down in the opposite direction, which feels like a nice little milestone considering how far behind it looked early on. And it still has leaves in triples (whorled phylotaxy). Usually plants grow out of that mutation rather quickly, but it's still going strong. Nice! That's really the theme of this week: the smaller one is still smaller, but it's no longer just surviving in the shadow of its sibling. It put on a lot of growth too, and the bed now feels more like a real two-plant garden instead of one plant and one footnote. The other change this week is that the AJ's Sour Diesel clone is no longer in the bed. I dug it back up and moved it into a 5-gallon pot outside this diary. It was never going to have enough room in here with the rate these two are growing, and I'd rather move it now than let it become a casualty of poor planning later. So W4 was the week the bed stopped being a novelty and started becoming a management problem, which is exactly the kind of problem I like. The twins exploded, the tricot had to be trained, the dominant plant is building a trunk like it has something to prove, and the temporary roommate got evicted before the situation got stupid.

KanOrganics --- W5: The Bed Disappeared Week 5 was the week the twins finally stopped looking like an experiment in a big container and started looking like they fully intended to occupy the entire bed. They both put on another big burst of growth and have now more or less covered the 45-gallon bed. What was open space not long ago is now just canopy. The whole thing went from interesting twin situation to this is now a real plant mass that needs decisions made about it. The most interesting part is still the smaller twin. The tricot never grew out of its three-leaves-per-node whorled phyllotaxy, which is unusual. Most tricots eventually settle down and drift back toward more standard growth after the first few nodes, but this one has stayed committed to the bit. That alone makes it one of the more interesting seedlings I've had in a while, and now it's not just surviving. It's an actual contributor to the canopy. The larger twin is still the dominant structure overall, with the heavier frame and broader presence, but the smaller one has long since stopped being a footnote. At this point the bed feels like a real two-plant arrangement. Because of how much space they've claimed now, I think it's time to move this bed into its next phase. I'll most likely be switching the photoperiod today to initiate flowering. That feels like the right move. They've filled the footprint, the canopy is established, and waiting much longer would probably just turn this into an even denser wall of leaves. The cover crop is basically gone from view now except around the margins. The cannabis has won the visual argument completely. What started as a strange seed story has turned into a genuinely impressive bed, and the tricot still refusing to normalize just makes it better. So W5 feels like a threshold week: huge growth, full bed coverage, the mutant sibling still behaving like a mutant, and the likely flip into flower happening now.

KanOrganics W6: Flipped lights, flipped heights Week 6 is in the books, and the bed has officially entered a new phase. After filling the entire surface last week, I switched the photoperiod to begin flowering, and the twins are already responding. The bed no longer looks like one large plant mass. It now looks like a real canopy preparing to turn the corner. The biggest thing this week is structure. Both plants are pushing upward now, and the canopy is starting to separate into more obvious tops instead of just one continuous mass of oversized leaves. They're still packed together, still very dense, but the growth pattern has shifted. It feels less like horizontal occupation now and more like vertical intent. The larger twin is still the heavier-built plant overall, with the broader frame and thicker presence, but the smaller tricot is absolutely still part of the conversation. In fact, it is now taller, and with incredibly large lower fan leaves; probably the largest leaves I've seen indoor, actually. It never grew out of the three-leaves-per-node whorled phyllotaxy, which is still unusual for this trait to carry so far. What I like most here is that the bed still feels balanced in a very strange way. The larger plant has the bulk, the tricot has the vertical dominance and odd architecture, and together they've created a canopy that looks full, vigorous, and slightly unruly without yet becoming a total disaster. That said, it's definitely no longer an empty-bed experiment. So W6 feels like the transition week: full bed, flip initiated, upward push beginning, and the mutant twin still refusing to become normal. Exactly the kind of plant behavior I like documenting.

KanOrganics --- W7: Flower Set and Cleanup Week 7 was mostly about letting the bed transition into flower while cleaning up everything underneath. Both plants are now clearly setting small flowers, so the flip is fully underway. It's still early, but the tops have moved into actual little flower clusters. The bed still looks dense from above, but now it has that different energy where the canopy is no longer just stretching and stacking leaves. The main job this week was removing all the underbrush. I cleaned out the lower growth across the bed so the plants aren't wasting energy on shaded interior fluff that was never going to matter. It was time. The canopy had become dense enough that everything underneath was turning into useless gigantic leaves and tiny suckers, and now the structure makes a lot more sense. From below it's much cleaner, with better airflow and better access Both plants are now about equal in biomass. The once smaller tricot is very much still in the game and still doing its strange three-leaves-per-node thing. It never normalized, which continues to make this one of the more interesting mutant plants I've had since whorled phyllotaxy in cannabis usually snaps out of it after a few nodes. So W7 was less about dramatic changes and more about refinement: flowers are forming, the lower junk is gone, airflow should be much better, and the bed is now officially in that early-flower stage where structure matters more than raw leaf mass.

KanOrganics --- W8: The Runt Isn’t the Runt Anymore The smaller twin is, by this point, very much not the smaller twin anymore. What started as the weaker, tricot runt has fully grown into a real plant, towering over its sibling. That's probably my favorite part of this whole run so far. Early on it looked like the story would be the other way around, with one little survivor tagging along underneath. Instead, the mutant sibling kept its weird three-leaves-per-node whorled phyllotaxy, stayed in the game, and eventually turned itself into the leader. Both plants are now well into early flower, and the bed has that nice look where the structure is set and the tops are starting to stack. The flowers are still young, but they're forming cleanly and there's already enough frost showing on the sugar leaves to make the direction obvious. It no longer feels like a novelty bed. It feels like a proper flowering run. The canopy still reads as one solid mass from a distance, but up close the individuality is more obvious now. The larger original twin still has bulk and presence, but the former runt has absolutely caught up with an attitude. That's a fun reversal, especially given how lopsided things looked in the beginning. At this point the most interesting thing about this bed is that the unusual behavior never really stopped. The twin seed stayed a twin story. The tricot stayed tricot. The runt stopped being the runt. And now the whole thing is flowering like this was always the plan.

KanOrganics W9: 4 Weeks in Bloom The twins are now 4 weeks into bloom and progressing well. Both plants are stacking flowers across the canopy, and the bed is fully occupied at this point. The stretch phase looks finished now, and the structure is set. The tops are established, bud sites are building, and resin production is becoming much more noticeable on the sugar leaves. The most interesting part of this run is still that the former runt is no longer the smaller plant in any meaningful way. It kept the 3-leaf-per-node whorled growth pattern instead of growing out of it, and it is now fully participating in the canopy and flower production. What started as an uneven twin situation has turned into a much more balanced two-plant run. The flowers are still in the early building phase, but they are developing evenly and look healthy overall. Trichome coverage is already strong for this stage, especially on the upper flowers. The canopy is dense, but manageable, and both plants appear to be handling the shared bed well. At this stage there is not much to do except keep conditions steady and let them continue filling in.

KanOrganics --- W10: Bloom Week 5 The twins are fully in flower now and the bed is packed wall to wall. This is the point where the flowers stop looking like loose pistil clusters and start looking like actual buds. The main tops are stacking well and resin production jumped hard this week. Several colas are already heavily frosted and the sugar leaves are getting coated.

KanOrganics --- Bloom Week 6 The twins are filling out well. This week looks more like bulking up. The tops are denser, resin coverage is heavy across the canopy, and several colas are starting to stack into real spears instead of loose early flower clusters. Very piney and floral smell going on. Unique. The larger tops are still mostly throwing light stigmas, so they should have more swelling left. Overall this looks healthy and on track.

KanOrganics --- Week 11: Bloom week 7 The twin Gary Paytons are starting to senesce now. Buds put on enough weight this week that several tops toppled over, so I tied them up for support. The colas have filled out nicely and the plants are clearly moving into the finish. I would guess about another week left, maybe a little more.