indica or sativa??
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is that a good thing? bushiness of indica potency of sativa?
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First I would say that the wideness of the leaves point to a cross, a hybrid of indica and sativa. They are not thin enough to be a pure or even mostly sativa or wide enough to be mostly or totally an indica.
As to asking; "is that a good thing? bushiness of indica potency of sativa?" That is impossible to answer because you don’t know what the cross is. You may end up with something that is mostly indica with just a slight bit more of a head high and you might end up with something with a bunch of head high but the yield may not be any better because of the indica bushiness.
I have seen pure sativa plants that were 8 or 10 feet high and while they were as thin as fence posts because they were so tall they still had a ton of buds so they did not need to be short and squat and bushy to get a large yield.
Without knowing the cross it is impossible to guess what you might end up with. Even if you knew the cross it would still only be a guess because in a pack of beans of all one type you can get plants that while they may look fairly much the same can still be genetically different enough to give a different buzz and sometimes genetically different enough to look and grow very different from the rest of the beans of the same kind from the same pack.
Unless it is a very stabilized hybrid it is pretty hard to guess what you will get even if you know the cross.
Look at an F1 hybrid. It is the first generation of a cross between any two unrelated seedlines in the creation of a hybrid. F1 hybrids can be uniform or variable depending on the P1 parent stock used. That means it is anyone's guess what you will actually get.
Then look at an F2 hybrid. That is the offspring of a cross between two F1 plants Now what is not clear is do the two F1's need to be from the same parents? By convention they don't. Geneticists often describe a backcross of an F1 back to a P1 parent as a F2 cross. If it is a true F2 it should be more stable.
You are dealing with cases of what may be homozygous and what may be heterogygous. Heterzygous is a condition when two genes for a trait are not the same on each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes; individuals heterozygous for a trait are indicated by an "Aa" or "aA" notation and are not true breeding for that trait.
Then you have homozygous which is the condition existing when the genes for a trait are the same on both chromosomes of a homologous pair; individuals homozygous for a trait are indicated by "AA" or "aa" and are true breeding for that trait.
Depending on your point of reference, an individual or group can be
considered both homozygous or heterozygous. For instance, say you have two individuals that are both short (S) and have webbed leaves (W) and have the following genotypes. #1 = SSWW and #2 = SSWw.
They are both homozygous for the short trait but only individual #1 is homozygous for the webbed leaf trait. Individual #2 is heterozygous for the webbed leaf trait and would be considered a heterozygous individual.
As a group, they would be considered heterozygous in general by some and homozygous by others. It would depend on your point of reference and the overall importance you place on the webbed leaf trait. Most would consider it to be heterozygous.
Take blueberry for an example. The blueberry cannabis strain is considered a true breeding homozygous seed line because as a whole the many offspring have a similar look and produce a similar product. However there are often subtle differences between the plants of characters such as stem color and potency. When taking a close look at blueberry, you will find heterozygous traits, but because of the whole overall look, we still generally consider them homozygous for the purpose of breeding programs.
Then we often talk about hybrids, well Hybrids are an individual type/cross of marijuana produced by crossing two parents of different genotypes. Some say that a hybrid is a heterozygous individual resulting from crossing two separate strains. But for the purpose of seedbanks, a hybrid is in general, a cross between any two unrelated seedlines. Any hybrid is heterozygous and not true breeding.
Are you starting to see what people are up against when they are shown a picture of a plant and asked what can be expected from it, like an indica bushiness and a sativa high?
There are so many things that factor in to what something is that it is virtually impossible to say with even the slightest degree of certainty what something will be unless it is a very stabilized strain and even then there will be the ugly duckling in the group now and then that is not at all like what was expected.
Just do your best to grow it and then dry it right and cure it right and enjoy it regardless of what the buzz turns out to be but don’t have any expectations based strictly on leaf shape of an obvious cross because basing a guess on that you could be as far from being right as you are right now from galactic central point.
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