twin plant help!

JimmiP

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I've just had it happen this season. Let it go. It can grow just fine as a twin in the same pot. One side will be a genetic copy of the mother and the other a hybrid between the two parents.
The one I had came up as two girls at first. But one side later turned hermaphrodite. I just lopped it off and kept the other side growing. So watch them close when they show flowers. The female twin has done wonderfully. 15696896728584805155198588580545.jpg sorry about the hps lighting but just saw your post as I was doing some moving and cleaning. The plant is not in its normal home right now.
 

Matt1983NS

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I had twin sprouts from one seed and both grew just fine. One ended up being a hermie but the other was a keeper forever. I even brought the mother with me on my 5 day road trip from calgary to Nova Scotia (I was moving).
Don’t cut it!
 

Thundercat

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I got 2 stems from 1 seed!!! But I’m not sure if I should leave them alone or clip the smaller one? I’ve read that the smaller one will eventually die, but I’m not too sure what I should do, the smaller one is starting to droop a little. Any advice?
I have found twins several times now, from one specific batch of genetics. I havn't been able to get both to survive, but I sure tried. Usually I got one to survive, and every time its been an AWESOME plant. I've tried separating them and leaving them together. each time one was weaker and died though.

That is how I have had it happen multple times. I used a twin plant for a mother on a cross I made. When I and another grower popped 20ish seeds from that cross we got a total of 4 twins if I remember correctly. It seems the twin trait might have passed in the genetics.
 

Matt1983NS

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That’s interesting, was the cross a hybrid, or was it genetically linked to the twin plant?
I’ve only done one batch of seeds with the twin seed mother I have, but I have only tested about 10. No twin sprouts, but that was sort of a backcross to a hybridized “sibling” of the twin seeds.
I wonder if I did a straight hybrid with the twin and a separate strain if it would be more prone to produce twin sprouts from one seed.
I’ve had many Siamese seeds over the years and one usually dies, but only one twin sprout from a single seed.
It would be an interesting test, as it seems one twin seems to get the positive dominant traits of the strain.
Here’s a photo of my twin seed from January of 2018, which I still have as a mother right now....
 

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