3/25 Woke up to pistils forming this morning, flowering is beginning earlier then I would like. The plant in LST is not doing much, several sites have started growing vertical. I have done a bunch of leaf tucking on the other plant and removed 4-5 lower fan leaves. Two of the lowest sites have developed nicely and I have been able to direct them up. I hopefully gave the plants their last top watering with some recharge, I transitioned them to ac infinity bases, I also added an air stone in each base. I am not sure if they will do anything, but had them laying around.
3/27 The larger plant is growing about an inch a day, the other one is just doing what it does... Did some major leaf tucking and light defoliation to the larger plant today and pulled side branches down a bit.
I washed and buffered some coco today to start up the second grow in next few days undecided what to start next.
3/28 Plant is really stretching, was 5" on 3/24 and now 9" today. Still small but she's coming along. Leaf tucking and defoliation is needed daily at this point. Currently have lights 36" above canopy at 60% power, DLI is 32 and ppfd hovering just under 500. I plan to lower the light at the end of this week and increase ppfd to 550 and DLI 35-40
3/29 plants are doing good, I noticed some browning of pistils on the larger plant wasn't sure why, I ph my water and it was somehow 7.6!? I emptied the water bases and mixed up some fresh solution. Will monitor over next few days if it's acting up. I calibrated my pen but it was correct. Not sure if air stone caused it or I just royally screwed up mixing the nutrients.
What can I do to get these plants to stretch? They are going into Week 4 and only 5" tall. They have a diameter of appx 10" I feel these should be much taller at this point.
Its the genetics. Indica generally have fat leaves and stay short and squat. Sativa have thin leaves and stretch taller with more branching. Yours is an Indica leaning hybrid anyway, but it's possible it leans even more heavily that way than another seed grown alongside it - hybrids are often unpredictable.
There's nothing wrong with the plant, don't worry. Lots of nodes tight together makes for large, dense buds. Plus it will stretch at 50-100% when it starts to flower. Just keep doing what you're doing! 😀
I would check your ph first. It looks like you are not giving enough potassium for flowering. Which if this is low your substrate ph will climb out of range causing lock out. The spots are calcium, and possible potassium deficiency spots mixed in.
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