Mutating Plant?

A friend of mine has a mother plant kind of.. Its a higher generation clone who's genetics have been passed around for quite some in a circle of ppl who really don't know anything about growing..
This one seems like its decently healthy, its about 6" tall, with a good root system.. Older growth is healthy and normal looking, but the newer growth is odd.. New leaves are only forming 3 lobes per leaf, and only the central lobe is even serated along its margins, the other lobes look alot like cotyledons, or embryonic seedling leaves.. Actually I think some might even be starting to form single lobed leaves..
There doesn't seem to be any male flowers, but its small and bushy and hard to see detail to that extent..
In the event that this doesn't herm, what is the likely performance of a plant acting like this as compared to its unmutated state? Has anybody ever flowered one of these mutants out? I'm just thinking that if it does continue on this path, it will hardly resemble a pot plant, and could blend in with field weeds perfectly..

i have two down stairs right now. havent flowered yet. but my are like that because i took the clippings after i started flowering.

I really assumed that may have been a factor.. This plant inevitably went through that I imagine.. Like I said, its been cloned and re-cloned by novelty growers who wouldn't go through the effort of keeping a mother, so probably more than once in its lineage from seed its attempted to flower..
It really would be sweet if this isn't detrimental to production because if this keeps going as it is, come next spring it will hardly be recognizable as marijuana..

I'm just learning how to clone. How far into flowering (maybe not described so much in terms of time, but in terms of how much bud/flower growth?) were your plants when you took the cuttings? Also, where are your preferred cutting locations when you're working with a flowering plant? I read to take the growing tips, and these are where my future buds are growing. Such a dilemma, because what I really want to do, my urge, is to take the lower branches that also aren't as fully developed.

What say you two? (Or anyone who's accomplished at taking clones)

Sounds like the phenotype is way out there right now. After a plant has been cloned so many times, genetic drift is inevitable. Sends pics if you can.

Yea, I'll look into getting pics.. I won't see the guy who has it for a few days though because of his work schedule..
Seamaiden, under growth is fine for cloning.. Most important thing is to do it sooner than later, and hope for the best.. I don't know much about how this clone came to be at all.. Pics and details from Dr Greenthumb would be nice..
Its funny though that this has never come up before considering alot of ppl clone while in flowering..

And yet I always read that it's impossible or atrocious or just plain unthinkable to clone whilst flowering.

I've done it before and it worked as far as rooting but it took forever to revert back to the veg cycle. Like a month or so.

If I've got anything right now, it's time.

Hey, any pix of the borked plant?

Ive cloned up to 4 weeks into flower with success. also if the clone was taken after flower, it will reveg and start by growing fewer bladed leaves, even up to single bladed leaves for a node or two. i pick my lower branches for clones, or if i top the plant i will also use the top.

When you say a node or two, do you mean it increases lobes again further up the stock?
It its funny how much these side lobes resemble cotyledons, except they have pronounced veins like a mature leaf.. Almost seems like a second childhood after a re-veg of sorts assuming flowering was the cause.. And it did look as though the newest growth was going to be purely single lobed as well..
Sorry, about lack of pics.. It'll be a few days before I can even see the plant again..

ive heard of plants staying with single bladed leaves for the rest of the grow, but in my experience they usually go down to 3 then 1 then slowly go back up to regular.

here is a pic of mine it grew fuuny for a couple nodes and then it went back to normal

great pics dr.greenthumb, what strain?

Yea, that looks about the same.. Did yours form the rounded cotyledon-like side lobes as well?

born no it didnt just abnormal leaf growth. and kaos this is actually just a midi. but i also have grape ape and sour grape in my flower room and brain freeze and pine apple punch in veg. i will get some pics and put them in my profile tonight

KAOSOWNER said:

Ive cloned up to 4 weeks into flower with success. also if the clone was taken after flower, it will reveg and start by growing fewer bladed leaves, even up to single bladed leaves for a node or two. i pick my lower branches for clones, or if i top the plant i will also use the top.

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Just what this guy says. And if the plant has changed over to flowering, a lot of times the cuttings new growth will be a single leaf that looks more like Spinach then weed. But after a week or two the new growth will be normal. Figured an old time grower would have already known this.

Did your mom forget to give you your medication dude? Have you been up all night running through threads in my history contributing like you are?

its been my experience that every time you bud a plant and revert back to bud again the plant will lose some of its genetic integrity.also,if the light cycle,or time periods arent kept consistent a plant will get confused and produce leaves with less fingers.once you stabilize your light regimen the plant will bounce back and produce normal growth...

Everyone's on the right track, my 2cents, it definately had some trauma, either flowering revert or general bad gardening.

It will be fine, with a little veg time. Wow that's a rhyme, how sublime.

That lord dingle berry... Well, you know, I stuck up for you after you'd had enough...