My seedling has grown three nodes so far. Why does...

Hi, normally you get the replies to a growers question in a very short Time from minutes up to 1 hour, the ppl are here very fast. I see some change in your plant, from stretchy, leggy she goes into nodes very close together did you change your light? ( add stronger light) if yes rise the light i could be to near at the plant.And to your leaves, how many fingers aleave have or not. In the end you smoke the flowers, the leaves bring photosynthesis and feed the plant , it should be secondary how they look like, as long as the plant is healthy and produces chlorophyll. Happy growing

hey man the main way you can explain the number of fingers is genetics and stress. My plant randomly grew three fingered leaves all it's life because it was under a lot of stress... but yours looks fine stress wise, therefore this is a genetic issue. And these things happen, nothing you can do really, except "grow it out" and wait and see. I'm fairly confident the seedling will be able to pull through and produce a decent young vegetative plant; but clearly growth is about one node slower than you want at this stage, that's why it's stressful. Anyway hope you decide to keep the little thing, if you believe in it, probably it will benefit from that and grow big and strong ! good luck 🚀