Any idea what's going on here?

[mimota]

This is about 2 months old. About 20" height. It started out with three leaf fans then went to 1 leaf. and has stayed there for about three weeks. I am starting to see some three leafs come back, but the question is, what the heck is this thing? I sprouted it from a random seed I found while moving.(found several, but only three got more than a few inches tall then stopped and turned yellow). I assume it is some sort of ruderalis but not sure. And, what is it doing? The branches are very bushy, sparse calyx.
Help.

 

[iampepe]

Welcome to AFN

what was the light schedule of it? It looks like it could have started to bud then reverted back to veg.

 

[mimota]

It's been outside the whole time.

 

[iampepe]

It's been outside the whole time.

Yeah thats it then, let her grow, she'll start looking normal with new growth now that the days are getting longer.

 

[mimota]

She's comin' back around cap'n! Five leaf fans on the horizon

 

[mimota]

Still looking for suggestions as to what exactly this strain might be. It continues to grow, very bushy as you can see, just a matted mass of mj. New fans are now all 5 leaf.

 

[mimota]

Ok back again after a few weeks with this mysterious plant. Did some backtracking and it is actually one that germinated back in late February, lived in greenhouse til mid March, then transplanted to the 18" pot outside where it has been since. I calculate it is approximately 18 weeks from seed. No sign of flowers other than so-called "pre-flowers". As you can see it continues to grow. I topped it to slow the vertical growth and cleaned up a lot of old single leaf fans. The branches have long since stopped being double nodes side by side but are all coming out stepped, veg stage looking. Still seeing pre-flower-ish activity.

I have to qualify that I am not a veteran grower other than random plants and successful harvests from back in the Colombian Gold days of the 70's. Once converted several acres of forgotten WWII hemp crop growing in a creekbottom into actually serviceable weed by gathering all the seeds I could from friends, of all varieties from the crappiest Mexican to one hit Gold and spreading them at exactly the time the wildwood weed was dropping seeds. I think it was total around 5 pound baggies of seeds. Did over a couple of seasons and suddenly there was a marked rise in potency and varieties growing in the creekbed. Did a lot of pruning, testing, manual crosspollinating during those summers. Did the whole rubbed hash thing and even experimented with iso2 machine and homebrew version.

Point is, I've seen a lot of different kinds and shapes of wild weed, and lots of kinds and shapes of commercial weed, but never anything like this animal. I thought it was a sort of Ruderalis at first, especially when it started getting early flowers, but it simply hasn't evolved. Very perplexing.

What sets it apart from other weed I have grown is that it is very dense. The stalk base is close to an inch thick, but the plant is only about 26" tall. It is a tangled, thick smelly mass of weed.

Could it possibly be some GMO strain designed to not reproduce ever?

 

[motavato]

Now three weeks or so later -

She's right at 4.5 feet tall now and appears to be in the flowering stretch. As you can see, the planter pot has disappeared. She's phat.

 

[Mustang92]

Just a guess on my part,
I've seen plants sometimes do this when people flower them to tell sex and then go back to veg. They do the three leaf grow a couple of nods and then do two leafs grow a few more nods and back to five, leafs no order to it other than the nods. They also stay short and dwarf like , i got two plants from buddy and one did this but the other one didn't. Grown from same strain of seed but plants look totally different. He plants reg. seeds and flowers early to sex before summer starts then back to veg then outside. So there is chance you already know strain but it stressed and did this and now it don't look like others. I read some where it will produce less but awesome sized buds covered in crystal, I hope it's true and not BS. Anyway just a total guess on my part, guess you'll find out when you smoke it.

 

[motavato]

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