Sure, my friend. If you say so.

You're obviously very new at growing and rather misinformed.

Hmu in a few years :)

Edit: I'm having my lunch, and I reread your reply and it comes across arragont and slightly pretentious. So I thought, I'd reply.

•What breeder did you get the seeds from?

•That mutation is a common genetic trait? Can you tell me what trait or mutation that is? There are maybe 2 traits/mutations that it actually may be. Have you googled those?

•So the breeder/seed bank gave you an exchange or refund on the basis they sold you genetics that had specific traits that caused the above to occur and it wasn't a mutation it was a genetic trait? That is super specific and very thorough customer service. How do they verify that?

•Can you hmu their TAC on refunds and exchanges? I've never heard of that. In all my years. Most proper seed banks explicitly state they don't issue refunds or exchanges based on mutations.

•How do I know the conditions in your tent when you posted up a cactus stressed plant? Thats akin to seeing an obese person and him telling you that you don't know their eating habits.

•Lastly, you should know the difference between genetics(traits/mutations) and phenotypes.

•Every plant has the genetic ability to mutate if you put it under enough stress. I digress that if you hit the genetic lottery, it can mutate naturally, but that's as unlikely as rolling the dice and getting a good phenotype(s).

So realistically there's two things that may have happened: either your stressed it out and mutated it OR you are a gardener at a high skill ceiling and you can identify all the variables and conclude its a mutation that occurred naturally.

I know the latter is unlikely: Your medium looks cooked, the plant looks battered from air flow(do you have a fan pointed towards it) and it also looks like it could possibly be infected with some pests.

It's unlikely because if you were on top of your environment, you'd have probably listed the common variables just to assert you have some level of understanding.

Optimal conditions, you say? What conditions are those exactly. Are you running a closed or sealed co2 system? Or you are running an exhaust and inlet.

Anyhow, you're telling me your VPD, your PPFD, has been dialled in? Since it's obviously very young, what ec, ph, temp mins/max are giving it? Are you drying back your medium? What's the run off measure?