This is your seedlings on drugs...

I just encountered a strange phenomenon...

First a short set-up as to how this happened: I smoke to treat anxiety/depression and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Previously I was on a prescription for fluoxetine (aka Prozac), and alprzolam. I stopped taking the alprazolam as it is physically addicting and marijuana had less harmful side effects... so to wrap this up - I had bottle of fluoxetine in which I just arbitrarily started saving my seeds in...

I noticed the seeds were well covered in the powdery residue but didn't think much of it... after just sprouting them on 4/20 I've noticed they are growing strangely compared to the seeds which I had stored in a plastic bag. Several of the seedlings developed 'normally' but were like miniature banzai seedlings that have remained very small even though they are growing nodes/leaves at the same rate as the other non-fluoxetine coated seeds... very cool looking.

Anyone with a biochemistry background care to hypothesize as to why fluoxetine would have this effect (or any for that matter) on a plant? Or should I just chalk it up to coincidence?

haha thats neat dude you should post a couple pics if you can.

dbo24242 said:

haha thats neat dude you should post a couple pics if you can.

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I apologize for the craptastic quality - phone camera lacks a macro feature. I included a side-by-side with another seedling that was started at the same time, but had no contact with fluoxetine for comparison (both are from the same original plant).

No more breeding for dwarf genetics, just give your girls Prozac!

I had a swazi seed that came up as a trifoliate and even topped itself.

I think it's because the guy that gave it to me kept it in the same box he kept his Areogarden nutes, and the seeds got really soaked in them. Very few germinated though.

might be similar to a treatment in colchicine made from winter or autumn crocus? where the chromosomes havent split and youve grown a polyploid? trifoliates are always very cool to watch split into 2 growth shoots

Thats great. Im goona try that mini experiment myself

those do not look happy lol

How are they doing a month later? Still alive I hope.

I'll update with some pictures tonight. Some have only just started to gain some height/strength... the rest seem to be miniaturized/stunted still but continue to grow miniature nodes and leaves.

Thinking about moving a couple of the non-thriving ones into an indoor grow-box to see what happens if I put them on a flowing light schedule. Banzai Bud anyone? =P

man those things were tiny. i wonder what the buds will look like