albino weed< true or false

[joetwitch]

:rastasmoke: so...oh ya k i bought off this guy and the weed he sold me was white. he sayed it was albino and so did my cuzin, my cousin sayed the guy probly had a one albine plant that he had made a strain out of wich he got a mostly white harvest. these guy are total hippies and are to poor to lace it with any thing. thats was the nutsest weed, me and a two freinds smoked half a dime of it and were so fucked for like 6 hours not kidding. i dont even rember alot of that night.:jointsmile: not that i care. so wats ur guys opion?

joetwitch Reviewed by joetwitch on 03-08-2007. albino weed< true or false :rastasmoke: so...oh ya k i bought off this guy and the weed he sold me was white. he sayed it was albino and so did my cuzin, my cousin sayed the guy probly had a one albine plant that he had made a strain out of wich he got a mostly white harvest. these guy are total hippies and are to poor to lace it with any thing. thats was the nutsest weed, me and a two freinds smoked half a dime of it and were so fucked for like 6 hours not kidding. i dont even rember alot of that night.:jointsmile: not Rating: 5

[Bree1978]

They had a pic in high times like that......

But how can it be true????????? I've never seen an 'albino' plant and I've been gardening for years....

[Scarlet Sky]

it is impossible for a plant to be albino; if it is albino, then photosynthesis won't occur. the green chlorophyl is what catches the lumens.

it IS possible for a plant to be partialy albino, or pied/piebald. this is a very rare trait, and it's unlikely that you have a sample of it. it is more likely that the buds are so covered with trichs that it looks white. i've had white buds that were just that damn frosty.

sorry, but the answer is no. it is not albino.

Sky :abduct:

[joetwitch]

ya man i dout it too i think it was bleached or somthing but it sure fucked me up

[canuck grower]

never seen an entire albino plant...

but these pics are courtesy of this thread: International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - FREAKS!!! post your freaks and grower anomalies

[stinkyattic]

Yep, partial albinism, shown above, is all you're gonna get.

When the strain that we know as White Rhino was first introduced, it was called AlbinoRhino.

Hmm! Food for thoguht!

[Storm Crow]

Ok, a normally green plant cannot grow without chloroplasts (the stuff that makes them green). A total albino plant is doomed to die young- it cannot produce it's own food like a normal plant. As soon as the seed's food is used up, it's a goner!

Partial albinos are seen now and then. Now a partial albino can have a branch or two that may grow out all albino, but it is the green parts of the plant that is supplying all the food for it. Although it is pretty, it likely won't do as well as a regular plant because it can't supply as much food through photosynthesis.

Another possibility is a branch mutation on a normal plant. One branch goes wacky and produces a mutation. (I had a normal plant with one partial albino branch- no difference in potency between the branches.) The mutation could be weird leaves, or albinism, or other trait. So it CAN happen, but it would be rather rare.

A potent, purely albino plant, bred by crazy hippies and nurtured in secret over the years? NO WAY! Just another urban myth!- Granny:hippy: (bio major, first time around in college)

[couplescaddy]

So, my buddy got this from one of the clubs out here in CO and said they call it Alcopulco Gold. Any idea what the hell happened here?

[the image reaper]

once, I had some top leaves get extremely light-bleached, but nothing like those pics ... with that sharply-defined 'border' between the green & white sections of the leaf, I would strongly suspect tampering of some sort ... :smokin:

[Storm Crow]

The pics show in #5 were much like my branch mutation. Sharp delineation between the albino and normal parts of the leaf. It was pretty, but nothing special.