I'm growing some seedlings, and some of them have the areoles in a spiral pattern, like the one in the center of the photo. In your experience, does this indicate anything about the morphology once it gets bigger?
This is from a Cahuilla OP pack, so I expect a little funkiness in some of these.
by Adamsmasher23
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I have had zero of them do this over a couple thousand individuals, so I’m going to say “IME no,” but I could be wrong. Spine patterns on ones that small really don’t tell me anything. I hope they all are but I’d wager on zero.
No, I used to get really excited when I’d see that but it’s actually fairly common in young seedlings. They always straighten out and turn into normies :-/
Out of about 3500 seedlings I’ve raised none of the twisties stayed twisty or turned into monstrose or anything else like that. The weirdos express themselves in different ways at that size/age.
How old are these?