As the title says, I have never before seen this. I've been growing a few years now and every year I do seed starts. Someone gifted me a bagseed from some stuff he got that was supposed to come from La Isla del Encanto, Puerto Rico. Only one survived, it's clearly a girl, and she's only a few nodes high, is STILL producing directly opposed growth, yet is flowering.

What's up with this?

As with all my other seed starts this year, she was germinated and emerged with the natural photoperiod. No other seed starts are flowering, indeed, none of them are even really hinting at sex just yet.

Nothing else is odd about her appearance and growth, EXCEPT that her internode spacing is extremely tight, almost nonexistent.

[Crusader Rabbit]

Throw some pollen on it if you can. You've just started your own line of autoflowers.

I've never worked with autoflowering cannabis, is that what's happening?

And if that's the case.... yeah, gotta talk to someone. Thanks!

[Weird]

i have seen some strain do the same root space is throttled

Indeed, flowering absolutely is induced when they're rootbound, but there's no way this is the case in this instance. I've had the same strain growing directly in-ground and in buckets, and every time the buckets will not only begin flowering first, they'll finish first. IF she'd been in her pot for more than a couple of weeks I think this could be a possibility, but again, before even showing sex? Growth is still directly opposed, too. Another paradigm, broken.

We're talking a seedling that's only a few weeks old here. Unfortunately, we're also talking about a bagseed, something I haven't grown out in a few years. Hell, that's how I did my first grow (I think that's how almost everyone started growing). This thing could be a complete waste of time, but the person who sent me the seed said the smoke was outta this world.

It really threw me, being as how this thing's been grown using the natural photoperiod only, which necessarily means, being as how I'm in the northern hemisphere, we're still experiencing an increase in daylight photoperiod. I never thought about an autoflower, simply not within the realm of my experience.

Her little pistils are already red, too. Votten ze...?

[Sinkyone]

Recessive autoflower traits can pop up form time to time, even if the parents did not erxhibit the autoflower trait. I've had it pop up a few times myself in my breeding projects but it is quite rare. IMO autoflowers are rarely worth while, but you never know, it could be decent.

[Oregonism]

Autoflower is said to be inherited in All seeds or however genetics are passed, but only some express, like Sinky said and some that expressed were bred.
Would be so interesting to figure out a trigger for autoflower gene and if it exists for any strain!

[Ghabi]

I have had the same "freaky" thing going on now with a Paradise Seeds Atomical Haze Feminized batch. I planted two of the seeds which popped within 36 hours. They're in 3 Gallon pots in soil, and growing outside among 15 other plants of different strains.

The two AH plants went into flower immediately upon sprouting and have been flowering midgets since. Have never seen anything like this before, they're even faster than any AF I'd ever seen.

It's not a happy story, as the whole thing is less than 6 inched tall and have a few popcorn nugs growing. I have a picture, but not sure how to post as this is my first post.

Mine got 3" tall, faltered, and has now died due to a fungal infection that's swept through my seed starts.

It totally reminded me of my lame attempts to grow cilantro. It ALWAYS bolts when it's 2"-3" tall, ALWAYS. I now have 3" tall cilantro that's seeded in my greenhouse.

To post a picture you can scroll down and hit "Manage attachments." From there you'll have a dialog box in which you can select and upload pix.

[Ghabi]

Thank you, SeaMaiden, for the posting info, will post a pic of this tonight for your viewing pleasure. It's a really weird case, I even showed a pic of it to the Paradise Seeds guy in Amsterdam who sold me the seeds a few months ago and all he could say was "Wow"..!?
Mine have not died, they're just midgets. The flowers are not really bulking up, just verrrrry slowly growing. Believe it or not, it otherwise looks healthy. I am about to sprout a couple of the same seeds (I have a ten-pack) to see if they do the same thing.