Vote Now 🏆 for the Grow Awards 2025!
Chat
RecommendedRecommended

Is it normal to top your plant and for all branche...

Igrowneil
Igrowneilstarted grow question 4 years ago
Is it normal to top your plant and for all branches on the plant to start topping itself to grow 3 leaves and 3 bud site's at every node
Open
Techniques. Topping
likes
Answer
Igrowneil
Igrowneilanswered grow question 4 years ago
I'll keep updating pics on my grow , I did find a hermi though it wasn't this plant , I think it's a hermi anyways it's in another question
likes
Complain
Experimentgreen
Experimentgreenanswered grow question 4 years ago
No. Lol. That is definitely not normal. But fascinating nonetheless! I think it likely that it had this mutation from the beginning and may have started to show these traits at some point no matter what. I've had plants top themselves from the way they grew...like they couldn't kick the seed shell off quickly and it distorted the growth and ended up Topping itself. So odd things definitely happen. I'd watch this plant closely and maybe get a clone if you can, some of the mutant plants turn out to be the most awesome.✌️
1 like
Complain
Mikewithgreenthumbs420
Mikewithgreenthumbs420answered grow question 4 years ago
ORGANOMAN answered grow question 2 weeks ago It is not normal, but does happen from time to time. They are known as "whorled phyllotaxy" Sometimes the main stem will be "tri noded", other times just a branch or two will be "tri noded", which is a genetic mutation, not necessarily caused by polyploidism. From what I think I know, either the whole plant is polyploid or it isn't. To have just one or two branches being polyploid while growing from a normal diploid plant is highly improbable and most certainly not possible, as every cell of the plant shares the exact same chromosomes. A plant that is entirely "tri noded", main stem and branches, is triploid, and usually inferior to either diploid or tetraploid plants. I always thought wholly tri noded plants (main stem and branches) also had a bigger inclination to be male and have always culled them, but according to one contributor, they can turn into and stay female through to harvest. The plants that I have grown that have had the occasional "tri noded" branch/branches, have all flowered normally - not sure if they had more bud, as the normal "two noded" branches had bigger individual buds than the multiple "tri noded" buds, which were smaller than the normal "two noded" buds. Eleven bladed leaves are very common, but 13 bladed leaves are quite rare. I have only seen good examples about, maybe, 12-15 times over the last 35+ years and on all types of cannabis; Sativas, hybrids and Indica plants. I have also grown plants with three nodes around the stem, but have then had two "noded" branches and not "tri noded" ones. However, as I stated earlier, due to my fear of triploid plants being male, have always culled them. Might have to keep the next one and see what happens, providing I have the space to run an experiment. Good luck with your grow, it will be most interesting to see what happens with this plant. Hope this helps,..... Organoman
2 likes
Complain
Mikewithgreenthumbs420
Mikewithgreenthumbs420answered grow question 4 years ago
One of my plants is going threw the same thing got 2 branches that are doing that
1 like
Complain
Similar Grow Questions
Solved
Cilum69
Cilum69
Broken plantsThey will grow good?
Week 9
Techniques. Topping
2 years ago
4
4
Solved
Mahalo
Mahalo
Topping?The question is: To top or not to top?
Week 3
Techniques. Topping
2 years ago
6
5