Ugly mutant young lady. Should I let it grow and do its thing or start a new seed instead?

PurpleBuckwheat

PurpleBuckwheat

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Hi everyone! I'm currently growing a Red Kush Auto from BSF seeds and it's growing incredibly quickly, but there's a problem as all leaves come out twisted. The seedling is only 9 days old from sprout and is already forming the third set of real leaves and even calyxes.

It's in soil, 12L pot, 80W led light, 27C temp in the afternoon and 24C at night. It's not a PH issue as I also though so and bought a new PH pen, but it gives me the same readings (I try to keep it between 6.2 to 6.5 PH). Humidity 55% to 60%. No nutes for now. 20/4 schedule.

It's a bit stretched out, but nothing serious apart from the weirdly looking growth. It stands to mention that there are some springtails in the soil, but I don't really know if it makes any difference for the plant. Apart from springtails, the grow is pest-free.

The growth speed is awesome, but will she be okay overall? The foliage is really twisted. What should I do? I was thinking to wait for a week or ten days more and see then.

Thanks a lot beforehand!
 

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budolskie

budolskie

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PurpleBuckwheat said:
Hi everyone! I'm currently growing a Red Kush Auto from BSF seeds and it's growing incredibly quickly, but there's a problem as all leaves come out twisted. The seedling is only 9 days old from sprout and is already forming the third set of real leaves and even calyxes.

It's in soil, 12L pot, 80W led light, 27C temp in the afternoon and 24C at night. It's not a PH issue as I also though so and bought a new PH pen, but it gives me the same readings (I try to keep it between 6.2 to 6.5 PH). Humidity 55% to 60%. No nutes for now. 20/4 schedule.

It's a bit stretched out, but nothing serious apart from the weirdly looking growth. It stands to mention that there are some springtails in the soil, but I don't really know if it makes any difference for the plant. Apart from springtails, the grow is pest-free.

The growth speed is awesome, but will she be okay overall? The foliage is really twisted. What should I do? I was thinking to wait for a week or ten days more and see then.

Thanks a lot beforehand!
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Are you misting with water or anything?
 
go go kid

go go kid

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for me personaly, i would grow it out as a curiocity plant, but thats me, many growers are more interested in the growing perfect plant due to space, time constraints or other reasons
 
PurpleBuckwheat

PurpleBuckwheat

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budolskie said:
Are you misting with water or anything?
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I was misting once a day with water PHed to 6.5 (during the dark period and then if some liquid was left on the leaves when I needed to turn the lights on, I dried it with paper towel), but stopped because of the springtails. Should I start doing it again?
 
Dopesmoka

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PurpleBuckwheat said:
Hi everyone! I'm currently growing a Red Kush Auto from BSF seeds and it's growing incredibly quickly, but there's a problem as all leaves come out twisted. The seedling is only 9 days old from sprout and is already forming the third set of real leaves and even calyxes.

It's in soil, 12L pot, 80W led light, 27C temp in the afternoon and 24C at night. It's not a PH issue as I also though so and bought a new PH pen, but it gives me the same readings (I try to keep it between 6.2 to 6.5 PH). Humidity 55% to 60%. No nutes for now. 20/4 schedule.

It's a bit stretched out, but nothing serious apart from the weirdly looking growth. It stands to mention that there are some springtails in the soil, but I don't really know if it makes any difference for the plant. Apart from springtails, the grow is pest-free.

The growth speed is awesome, but will she be okay overall? The foliage is really twisted. What should I do? I was thinking to wait for a week or ten days more and see then.

Thanks a lot beforehand!
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She’s actually not that bad I got 1 that smaller that’s about a month old, I would just give her a good feed of everything
 
budolskie

budolskie

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PurpleBuckwheat said:
I was misting once a day with water PHed to 6.5 (during the dark period and then if some liquid was left on the leaves when I needed to turn the lights on, I dried it with paper towel), but stopped because of the springtails. Should I start doing it again?
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No dont mist again i think that could have been causing it but not to sure
 
PurpleBuckwheat

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Dank Bongula said:
Yes, just flipped to flowering now...it straightened itself out for the most part, thinner sativa-like leaves with some minor waviness in the color on some of them. I like it.
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Great to hear that, mate. I think I'll leave it be for a week or so, let's see if it's able to form big fan leaves, which is all that matters for growth. Thanks for your answers!
 
PurpleBuckwheat

PurpleBuckwheat

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Dank Bongula said:
As a seedling...
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It turned out to be a beautiful plant, mate! Mine has the same features but it's much more affected than yours and is still growing in a very twisted and mutant way, but it's still growing quickly and newer growth is a little bit better than the old one. The new colas that are starting to grow much more normal and I believe after I start LSTing her in a couple of days, she'll get better.

By the way, I decided to replant it from her 12L pot into a smaller 4L pot and let her be as an experimental plant. I started a new seed of the same strain in a 12L pot and they'll be growing in the same space. That's her on day 18 after sprouting, transplanted into a 4L pot. She didn't get stressed at all.
 

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PurpleBuckwheat

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go go kid said:
for me personaly, i would grow it out as a curiocity plant, but thats me, many growers are more interested in the growing perfect plant due to space, time constraints or other reasons
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That was basically what I did. I replanted her into a 4L pot and started a new seed in the 12L pot she's been in before.
 
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