Breeding out of a mutation worth the time?

Hey all.
I've got a stockpile of seeds (s1) that I created by selfing a keeper pheno of Orkle (Tahoe OG x Purple Urkle from InHouse Genetics). I've been working with them for awhile and I run at least one every grow. It is a nearly perfect strain for my needs and the smell and flavor are amazing.

The problem I'm having is the mutations that occur about %60 of the time in the seedling stage. Very slow initial growth and severe leaf malformation. They always grow out of it and health and vigor are great once they do, but it slows plant development by 10 to 14 days.

As I said, it's my favorite cultivar so I've been just accepting the delay as the price for running it. Do you all think it would be worth trying to breed my way out of the problem? I don't want to alter the gene pool too much by introducing other strains so I'm assuming it would involve a lot of back crossing, pheno hunting and pollen chucking. Being as my genetic basis for the work would be s1s I'm not sure I'll get enough variation to work with.... thoughts?

For reference, these 2 were started at the same time. The mutant is obviously the Orkle, the other is a cross of mine.

I’ve personally been impressed by mutants. I’ve seen them stutter for 3 weeks and then over take the room in a week. I’ve also wasted time something that might be able to harvest a joint after 4 week veg.

Fallguy111 said:

I’ve personally been impressed by mutants. I’ve seen them stutter for 3 weeks and then over take the room in a week. I’ve also wasted time something that might be able to harvest a joint after 4 week veg.

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For sure. Most of the strange and atypical plants I've had have produced buds as good or better than their more normal siblings. A few have been useless. In this case, the only part of it that bothers me is the lost time while she sorts herself out.

It’s in gods hands