satindica?

Hey everyone, first post whoo! haha. I'll start by saying I can't get photos up right now but will soon as i can. My question is this: I've got 4 plants atm and they are all bagseeds from the same bag. Now 3 of the 4 plants have leaves that are not wide like an indica but wider than you would expect a sativa to be, but one of the plants has leaves half the width of all the others(but just as large) I can't understand this as they are all in the same soil and general conditions as each other, all the same age (4 weeks) and they are all out of the same bag... My theory is that the strain is a hybrid and the odd one out is a throwback to the more sativa dominant gene... but i have no idea its just a dumb theory. Any help would be appreciated. cheers.

I would say your guess is correct.

Yup, it's that or, the guy who grew your buds, grew more than one strain and mixed the buds together..

Soil and growing conditions shouldn't affect leaf shape, aside from stress mutations. Most strains have more than one phenotype, so a female pollinated by a single male may have a number of different types of children. There will be x number of phenotypes for any parental pairing and those two parents should always have the same number and types of phenos. A female can also be pollinated by more than one male. You most likely have two different phenos of the same strain or they might be half-siblings.

oooh I was wondering if it was possible for a female to be pollenated by more than one male. So i guess the mother of my plants was kind of a slut huh? lol thanks for your help people, +rep for mothers finest

Mother's Finest said:

Soil and growing conditions shouldn't affect leaf shape, aside from stress mutations. Most strains have more than one phenotype, so a female pollinated by a single male may have a number of different types of children. There will be x number of phenotypes for any parental pairing and those two parents should always have the same number and types of phenos. A female can also be pollinated by more than one male. You most likely have two different phenos of the same strain or they might be half-siblings.

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Out of curiosity, which traits are more likely to be dominant when a grower crosses strains? Male or female? Or 50/50?

budlover13 said:

Out of curiosity, which traits are more likely to be dominant when a grower crosses strains? Male or female? Or 50/50?

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i think its kinda random. youll get many different dominant genes in the children i believe. you solidify a strain by taking the seeds youve just created and growing them all. find the pheno that was created that you like best and match it to a male you assume is the same pheno. then you take their children and do the same. the 3rd time around your pheno will be dominant in the seeds created by the strain. you just gotta do some pheno matching lol. i think it goes something like that, thats what i read.

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budlover13 said:

Out of curiosity, which traits are more likely to be dominant when a grower crosses strains? Male or female? Or 50/50?

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Male and female shouldn't have different traits, but rather show two different expressions of the same traits. For every pheno, there's a male and a female version of it. Either can pass on the same phenotype traits. That said, I'm no breeder and don't know the best ways to achieve offspring that lean more toward a certain relative's traits. It gets very, very complex because you can cross siblings with siblings or with parents or new genetics, etc. Only the absolute best breeders are able to anticipate which traits are most likely to be passed on in a given breeding program.

True breeding and the stabilizing of crosses is not for the inexperienced grower, the unintelligent, or people without alot of time to devote to it.