Sibling Rivalry

Am growing some bagseed from last years crop, which was a couple of Early Pearls from bagseed, plus one each from feminized seeds of Galaxy, Early Skunk and Northern Lights. The seeds I saved last year came from the Pearl's, maybe a few from the Galaxy, but they were not separated. I probably got four dozen seeds total out of three pounds of harvested Pearl and maybe a pound of harvested Galaxy.

From that bagseed, am growing 4 plants this year. Three are almost exactly the same, and seem to be at a calendar-appropriate place in flowering for this climate (North Central US). The fourth is in the best spot, light-wise (gets full sun dawn to dusk, whereas the others have an obstructed hour or two in the morning), but it is WAY ahead of the other three, we came back from some time away at the fourth of July and it was clearly into flower already. Am expecting to harvest that one in early Septemer. Pics below.

It may or may not matter that last year, I did try a small grow of straight run auto-flowers outdoors last year about a hundred yards away, I think I timely pulled the males from there, but who knows. Also, my wife has bee hives.

Is this weird? I'm about 90% sure all four of these plants came from seeds from last year's Pearl, they all look the same this year when you adjust for different stages of maturity, they were planted at the same time and at the same size, but they are at least a month apart in maturity.

every seed is different, even feminised ones that are supposedly exact copies of each other.

it is perfectly possible that one of the seeds contains a gene that makes it flower slightly faster.

they look gorgeous anyways, well done.

researcher have measure pollen traveling distance up to 13 miles ref : http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6421-wind-carries-gm-pollen-record-distances.html
This is according to research on transgenic pollinating non-transgenic field in agriculture but all plant pollen are very similar so don't be surprise to have plant acting like auto if they were only a hundred yards away

Thanks. It's a little over six feet tall, it got topped a few times so there are a handful of nicely budding out colas competing for tallest at the top. It doesn't have a ruderalis look at all, but holy cow, did it start early. Assuming it smokes up good, am praying that it throws off a few bag seeds for next year.