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I've read lots of posts around the web about autoflower ducksfoot, mostly that they don't work, for one reason or another. This would explain why there are hardly any for sale despite a decade of interest. But what does that mean exactly? I will quickly tell you my experience.
I will put up a couple photos of autoflowering ducksfoot plants. You can see that the first leaf is the normal simple leaf. The second is clearly ducksfoot; simple leaf with two lobes. The third are often ordinary looking, but sometimes with 1 or 2 partially webbed leaflets out of 5. After that, they look normal and start flowering at the fifth node.
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There are clearly additional genes that influence the penetrance of the webbed phenotype, because plants homozygous for the simple leaf mutation are often different. I am sure that a highly webbed autoflower will soon be available through careful selection. I will gladly buy some seeds. However, it probably won't be easy to transfer to other autoflowers.
There are a few people who say they could not ever breed an auto ducksfoot after much effort. Probably they got the major genes correctly sorted, but were using strains where the phenotypes were never apparent because other genes masked them. I have seen many plants from homozygous ducksfoot crosses that show almost no sign of the trait.
I will continue crossing a few different auto-ducksfoot plants to try to breed for one where the webbing stays until at least they show flowers, but I hope someone else makes a better strain first.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
I will put up a couple photos of autoflowering ducksfoot plants. You can see that the first leaf is the normal simple leaf. The second is clearly ducksfoot; simple leaf with two lobes. The third are often ordinary looking, but sometimes with 1 or 2 partially webbed leaflets out of 5. After that, they look normal and start flowering at the fifth node.
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There are clearly additional genes that influence the penetrance of the webbed phenotype, because plants homozygous for the simple leaf mutation are often different. I am sure that a highly webbed autoflower will soon be available through careful selection. I will gladly buy some seeds. However, it probably won't be easy to transfer to other autoflowers.
There are a few people who say they could not ever breed an auto ducksfoot after much effort. Probably they got the major genes correctly sorted, but were using strains where the phenotypes were never apparent because other genes masked them. I have seen many plants from homozygous ducksfoot crosses that show almost no sign of the trait.
I will continue crossing a few different auto-ducksfoot plants to try to breed for one where the webbing stays until at least they show flowers, but I hope someone else makes a better strain first.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
