ok, after starting my crop this year from what is more or less a host of seeds from a bazillion different sources thrown together randomly into tubs, i noticed after about a week of growth that one seedling was forming little white hairs behind its first set of ridged leaves, one thick hair behind each. she's sitting in front of me right now, about 3/4 inches tall...which is unusual because she's growing significantly slower than any of her (hopefully) sisters. seeing as i have NEVER seen or heard of ANYTHING like this before, i decided to go online and see if i could chance upon an explanation, and i'm beginning to believe that this is in fact as close as i'm going to get. i don't have any pictures yet, because she is so tiny and i don't have a camera that will photograph that small without blurring the important stuff. i will do my best to acquire some photos so that anyone who is interested can share notes. so far, all i can say about this particular plant is that it had white hairs strait from the seed, is growing significantly slower than any of my other plants, regardless of gender, and is forming something behind each of the white hairs that i am reasonably sure are not leaves, but are not defined enough to positively identify as buds. FURTHERMORE, whereas most of my plants grow leaves rather symmetrically, one of the two initial ridged leaves is about 3x larger than the other. and still furthermore, whereas most of my plants form leaves in clusters perpendicular to one another, this oddity is forming her ridged leaves directly on top of her primary leaves, with the little bud-like nubs forming perpendicularly. and i've been keeping all my plants under 24 hr light since sprouting, so my best guess so far is that this is some sort of double-recessive once-in-a-million genetic fluke occurrence. i've already decided i'm going to cross-breed with a few of my more impressive looking males, once the time comes around. sounds to me like there's quite a bit of potential for some new and interesting strains here, given that this is apparently such a rare occurrence. if anyone out there has anything interesting to contribute, send email correspondence to [email protected].