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Chilipadi
Chilipadistarted grow question 4 years ago
Is it normal to have thick sugar leaves everywhere? Never seen a bud with so much sugar leaves covering the whole bud.
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Leaves. Too many
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 4 years ago
WOW! In 35 years of growing I have never seen a plant quite like yours. Truly amazing! Whatever you do, don't remove any more leaves, you have already messed with her metabolism by defoliating her in week 10, all this has done is slow her flower growth through a diminished ability to produce energy. Leaves are the "solar panels" providing the energy for your plant to grow. Less "solar panels" = less energy = less growth. All you can really do is wait this one out. Those leaves look incredible with all those trichomes and may end up better than the flowers! Also, as BluntZilla commented, bag seeds are very unreliable for many reasons, mainly the pollen would have come from a missed male flower somewhere, leading to fertilization with pollen with questionable genetics, genetics for forming/growing male flowers, so be aware that this plant may do the same thing. Also, as the pollen came from the same plant that it fertilized or another of the same strain, inbreeding can throw out very unstable and regressive genetics in the F1 generation offspring, especially with hybrid plants, as the F1 cross/first generation cross allows many of the recessive genes to become dominant genes. I would say in this plants history, a freak like yours with the genetics of massive trichome production , but smaller flowers was crossed with something that had big flowers but not huge trichome production. In that crossing, it would lead to plants with big flowers and massive trichome production. In the next generation, which is where your bag seed came from, the next recombination of genes would allow for non dominant genes to become dominant once again, leading to plants that express some of the "bad traits" that were masked in the first cross to once again express themselves. Hence the super trichome leaves and disproportionately small flowers. Remember too, the pollen that produced the bag seed you used, also had compromised genes, as the male flower was the result of a slight genetic deformity. When all these combined together to make your "bag seed", the genes within that seed had all the "bad genes" recombined into dominant genes, resulting in a plant with only massively "sugar" coated leaves, but the genes for growing big flowers has now become recessive/out muscled. It is far better to buy known seeds with stable genetics than to rely on bag seeds with their genetic instability. Hope this helps in some way,.... Organoman.
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Nor_Cal_Kannabliss
Nor_Cal_Kannablissanswered grow question 4 years ago
She definitely has a lot. Will make for some great Keif shake when ya trim. 🤘😤
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Stonerd
Stonerdanswered grow question 4 years ago
Thick sugar leaves is pretty normal at that stage of flowering, your buds are quite small for that stage might wanna increase the light output to help them fatten up! or it just might be the genetic of that specific seed (bag seeds are very unreliable) Plants look great overall! Hope this helps! Good luck and happy growing :)
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