Nice - can you share some pics? I wanna get my hands on a female whorled phyllotaxy >.<
Every trait every living organism developed through evolution started as a genetic mutation.
In that case, check out my journal, I've grown quite a few, it's actually the main trait I breed for. And if you really want to dig into whorled phyllotaxy find my journal in another forum...a good one
Cool,i was just thinking I'm sure that could be bred into a more common trait.I'll check it out.
ic ic thanks for the clear up.
You're welcome. And congrats with your find. They are not extremely rare, and in my experience don't yield more, but they do veg faster because of the better leaf arrangement (which is what phyllotaxy basically means). The 3 leaves don't overlap with the next 3, so you get 6 non-overlapping leaves. With regular opposite phyllotaxy every other two leaves overlap, so you get maximum of 4 non-overlapping leaves. Since plants grow at an exponential rate (more growth is more leaves is more growth is more leaves...) it makes a noticeable difference (not weeks, but noticeable).
What I find most odd about this one is that it started out normal? ever had any do that?
As a matter of fact, all my whorlers do that. Those that start out with 3 cotyledons start out as tricots, unlike ours, which are dicots (two seed leaves). The result is the same, but for different reasons (different genes that is).
no shit. that's cool. you breed for the trait you said? only for the veg?
Yes. And partly for veg bonus sort of speak yes. Top after two tri-whorled nodes and you get 6 tops instead of four. You obviously don't just get three leaves but also 3 branches, making them suitable for cropping (or scrogging or LST...). And again, I think they look pretty, just something about it that gets me excited every time I find one. It's also a trait I can recognize early, i.e. I don't have to flower them all to find the best which makes the fact I have limited space less of an issue. I just popped 38 of my most whorling cross a couple of days ago, already got 2 males and 1 female that are a little older (pics on last couple of pages of my journal), looking for more, which I will flower in dec/jan.
