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Natrona
Natronastarted grow question 2 years ago
At 3 full weeks of veg, my plants are 3 different heights 9, 7 and 3.5 inches, should I raise the lights from 16 inches to encourage more vertical growth? Typically, how far apart should the nodes be?
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Plant. Too short
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GrowingGrannie
GrowingGrannieanswered grow question 2 years ago
I don't know about the Purple Chill but I myself am growing both a Gorilla Glue and an OGKush in the same tent and can tell you they're very different plants in terms of height and structure.... They're both almost 6 weeks old now and the OGKush is a monster I've had to keep in check while Gorilla Glue is a little tamer, a little more "ladylike"... (it's my "Next UP" diary). What I would do is start LSTing them now - get the taller ones down to somewhere close to where the Gorilla Glue is in terms of canopy and consider Scrogging all of them when they start into flower.. That's going to be your best bet for keeping them all in sufficient light and not have OG and Purple crowding out the light on GG... Nodes on indica dominate strains are fairly close together - certainly much closer together than on sativa strains ... raising the lights would encourage more stretch but that is their natural growth pattern ... I would still hold those two monsters-in-waiting to let GG keep up with them... Good luck!
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tatace
tataceanswered grow question 2 years ago
Plants are living beings influenced by genetics, the shortest will probably remain the shortest (Try doing LST if the difference is too much), however your babies will get much taller during the transition period between vegetative and flowering, you will see what an explosion! Good luck :)
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Ezzjaybruh
Ezzjaybruhanswered grow question 2 years ago
I wouldn’t mess with your light height - no. Couple of reasons (assuming all 3 are autos) -they’re gonna hit their stretch phase soon where they will grow vertically plenty and fill out much more. -autos from third party sellers like herbies are a roll of the dice on genetics. Honestly, most autos in general are a roll of the dice. Allow me to try to explain - these companies have bought these seeds from random breeders. They themselves do not breed. That’s hardly the point but keep that in mind. So autoflowers are normal canna bred with ruderalis canna for the singular trait of “autoflowering” or flowering automatically around 4-6 weeks in regardless of light cycle. This trait was found in ruderalis canna in Siberia. It adapted to those crazy daylight hours to flower without 12 hours darkness. This is not the only trait that it has compared to your standard cannabis sativa. It is often much shorter, much more stout, much tighter nodes, less apical growth, different leaf structure. These are just the obvious traits. Sooo, these companies breed a few generations deep just to hopefully stabilize the “auto” trait without any care for other traits.. because it’s recessive, that’s the way it is.. you can’t ask for too much when trying to keep the autoflower gene. So this means you end up with crazy mixes of the normal canna plant with ruderalis plant genetics.. some tall, some short, some medium. Some tight nodes some not.. all they tried to stabilize was the autoflower gene. To be honest, a lot of breeders can’t even get that far, you’ll see ppl all over the questions asking why their autoflower is still in Veg 12 weeks in. It’s because the breeders didn’t take the time to do things right. Unfortunately, this is the state of autoflowers still in cannabis.
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GrowingGrannie
GrowingGrannieanswered grow question 2 years ago
And btw, I've just looked at the log you're keeping... you should track the pH and EC daily as well because those are the two MOST important measurements in any grow...
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