Four Shoots from One Node - Mutation or Advantage?

new branches sometime form on preflowers location depending phenotypes. nothing special

Lass sie wachsen alles ist in Ordnung,✌️👍😉

Ditto all that's said. Let them grow a little just to see what happens. You can always clip them if you don't like what's happening. or pinch them off and get on with your garden.

I have seen this and many other mutations over the years and it is not uncommon. Plant will be fine. Whether you keep the extra growths or remove them is up to you, but if it were my plant, I would remove the small extra shoots and leave just the main branches to grow. While it might look fascinating now, it does lead to problems with overcrowding later on and can also lead to the risk of breakage due to the extra weight during flowering. This is not an example of a polyploid plant.........that is a whole other phenomenon.

I believe it’s just an extra set of leaves. Nothing to worry about. If they bother you pinch them off.

its fine.

To respond to the question, it is in the eye of the beholder. My whorled mutation girl was fun to keep around until she wasn't. Trained herself. Cloning potential was insane because of how interesting the frames you could choose from were with no effort. on the other hand she loved running up my nutrient/electricity bills. She also didn't take stress well, but never made viable pollen if she did display an intersex flower.

Some sort of mutation. seen plants top themselves before too. I'm not a fan. Leads to too much branching and over-crowding. End up with buds smashed together or worse an infection of some sort. More is not better with branching. The "right amount" of branching is what you want. This makes canopy management a bit more difficult to plan for. Too much branching leads to excessive competition for light and smaller, more difficult buds to trim as the total mass hits a ceiling and just gets distributed to more bud sites without any benefit to yield. DLI and co2 causes vast majority of potenteial yield assuming the climate isn't a dumpster fire context. Number of colas is more about quality nugs and reducing risk of those huge primary colas that just have an elevated risk of fungus and microbial problems lurking underneath but look cool in pictures. As far as your approach... have a target canopy and work backward from there. If they are useful, no reason to remove them. In addition to a scrog, i try to make the vascular tissue leading to each cola roughly equivalent to each other. E.g. a primary branch off apical meristem (trunk) supports the same number of colas, 2 in my case. 8 colas with equivalent vascular tissue leading to each. helps keep things even with less effort along with manipulating apical dominance of course.

Polyploids in plants is an uncommon but by no means rare mutation. It usually ends up being 3s(triploid) but more is possible. Often these types of branches won't grow uniformly or predictably so keeping them can be hit or miss. As the plant grows or in future clones the trait could disappear entirely.

Hey there I don’t think it’s making 4 shoots I think the smaller things are deformed calex that normal grow there

Quadlateral branching. Techniques like super cropping, mainlining, and tying down branches can influence the plant's growth direction and encourage more stems per internode. At the end of the day, some cannabis strains are naturally more branching than others, genetics. Desirable trait well trained.