Flat Stems?

[Earthbound]

Hi guys, has anyone here ever encounted plants with flat stems about 1/2" wide. A plant I grew outside years ago, had a flat stem on the very top of the plant, the head it produced was about 1ft long and curled , like a fern tree branch, you know the ones that are all curled up then uncurl out into branches.

I seem to have another one, the plant is quite the mutant (in a good way) strange leafs, one leaf about the size of your hand, has a complete small leaf on a stem on the big leaf. This plant was turned to 12/12 a week ago, and now the top leaves seem stunned. This plant also branched itself into 2 top stems, only one of them is flat. Does anyone know what causes this??

[SukonmiSkunk]

would be nice to see a pic...

 

I had a strain years ago that had oval stems... real wierd... and it had heaps branches.. like a mm apart and curling around and up the stem... not branching out... running up the stem...

 

the strain i think was shiva.. or shiva shanti... took 14 weeks to flower.. but the heads were like the size of my legs.. massive... lost that strain to the piggies...

 

but yeah be good to see a pic.....

[Earthbound]

I must be going crazy, I thought I posted here yesterday, must have been another thread

[Bundy]

you did post here yesterday

[Earthbound]

Thankyou Bundy, I now understand, will try to post a pic- strange when I take my mobile phone camera in there I get black vertical beams and cannot take a pic. I'll try after the lights go out.

[Earthbound]

Sorry its abit blurred , the stem is over 1/2" wide, that bump in the stem is branch just growing of of it

[Earthbound]

another pic, this plant is a muntant.

[nugget]

...this plant is a muntant.

 

 

Is that a cross between 'munted' and 'mutant' ?

 

Either way it is weird looking, isnt it. Never seen anything like it

 

[Luke Skywalker]

Yeah, it's called "fasciation" and is an unstable genetic anomaly sometimes caused by breeding, sometimes by environment.

 

It's not necessarily bad for the plant, but not necessarily particularly useful. It grows out often in subsequent clone generations and is hard to breed for deliberately.

 

Don't worry too much about it, clone and see if the trait holds true and see what happens!

[Earthbound]

"Fasciation" aye, better google that one. Another plant has developed the same thing, anyhow they seem to be getting along fine.