A mutant plant.....

[ThcAholic]

Well, this is 1 mutant papaya (mango take-off) plant.......

 

..Please let me know is you have ever seen anything like this! And what I'm likely to benefit from Letting it grow......

 

..No early male flowers that I can see, but I think it's prone to hermie tendencies.......There are Pistils clearly visible (not from pics though).....I'll have 2 wait and c........

 

..Any experience with this any1??

[ThcAholic]

..The Flat, wide freaky stem!. Only like this on the top 1/4 of main stem. Top Bushy growth is tight, and Choking itself fast......

Pistils clearly present......but not flowering yet......No sign of early male flowers (Haven't looked under magnification though....)...I hope it doesn't turn out Hermie!!!)...

[ThcAholic]

..A top view of this freak of a papaya!!........

..Side growth is normal....at least it is now..........

[Spurious]

Looks like you may have some kind of siamese twin there.

[99waystofuckyou]

That's pretty cool, I have no idea what's wrong with it, but I think you should take out a patent on it and sell it to the hemp for clothing and rope chaps

[Luke Skywalker]

Wow... that's a freak all right... Don't worry yourself too much about it, although it may show some interesting sexual results, as you've said before, so I suppose best thing you could do is give it space, isolated from the rest, and see how she does... You taken any clones and seen if the trait develops?

 

Hmm, now that I think of it, you didn't mention if this was a seed grown or cloned plant... although it sounds like you're talking of a seed plant... the point being, I took a clone from a revegged motherplant a while back which had a similar disfigurement, although that was more a case of a sport on a plant really, rather than a plant with the trait built in from seedling...

 

How much behind sister plants of the same batch is it?

 

I would be most interested to see you have a chromosome count on that plant, you may have a chance polyploid mutation there, or it could just be a random trait... it happens sometimes...

 

Here's a pic of that clone before it was rooted... it didn't end up getting used for the present grow so I'm not sure if I passed it on to other growers at the time or if it was binned with the last of them when I selected my grow plants.... it did take tho, as I recall... anyway, here's the shot, similar to what you're showing although obviously a lot smaller...

[white_cluster]

;) thats awesome mate!!! I thought I'd seen mine fair share of plants but that is just fucked up, can you get a clone off that thing???

 

Its hard to imagine what buds might look like if shes a proper fem.

 

anyways mate, keep us updated with this monstrosity, I find it very interesting.

[indica]

I had a similar looking stem on a plant that I reveged. Most of the new shoots looked normal but one was like your plant and had the flattened stem. It didn't seem to really bother the plant to much just looked weird.

[ThcAholic]

...Thanks all 4 the Replies and Info. The seed was from Nirvana....other seeds from the same batch were extremely vigourous 1 was eaten

 

..The top of this plant has gotton mighty dense with growth...almost as if it's choking itself! I mean like .5cm node spacing in that bushy top bit....and u can see how much foilage there is! Where 1 shade leaf should be, 3 or 4 do right next 2 each other in some places along the wide, flat stem. If it does Flower properly....the buds might get mighty dense. Nice if it Just produced a Footy sized nug for a crownie!! Dream wish.........There is a more than decent splash of indica in this 1!

..The 1 above exploded with easily seen pistils early in veg, It grew very fast....no sign of any mutancies....

 

Another 1 below is also looking normal, and Is also looking normal...prehaps if anything not as vigourous.... No sign on it however of any sex traits. Goes 2 show U Nirvana phenotypes differ greatly......but then they don'y cost much either!

..Next season will B different though...I'll have some F1 genetics...and some Mouthwatering flavours....

..Thanks again for the help....I'll have 2 check it more regularly...was a month since i last seen it. If there's any chance it's gonna have male flowers..it has 2 go...nearby girls, and i'm not rippen them till their ready! ::

Edited January 12, 2004 by ThcAholic