Where are her branches??

Hahaha. I ended up training the Gelat.OG. Just pulled the top down a smidge and locked the branches in place.

So I should clarify. Both of these plants are about the same height. Just over 13". They have a DLI of about 30. I did not train either of them. Mostly because they were just too small and skinny. I also don't train for the first run of a new strain. It helps me understand how the plant should naturally grow. As for defoliation, I just cut the biggest 4 fan leaves blocking branches. Oh and the Gelat.OG is the branchy one. Unless I have the 2 backwards. 🤔 Insight on that one?

she looks untrained, and seems to be a sativa leaning pheno. you could train her down with some soft gardening wire, but once flower really gets going, around day 21 after flip, that's about the height you'll be working with through the rest of flower.

looks like it got tripped into flower early, I see some branches but could just be how the plant grows. I have one plant that does no split off to much but is very leggy and floppy. Good Luck!

Not a lot you can do at this point but make light for the lower buds. It could be partially down to genetics, but next time don't let them get leggy or stunt them during veg, and perform LST early on to encourage lateral growth. This is the problem with autos: you have no control over when they flip and so any issues early on will harm your end yield. With photoperiods you can recover from early setbacks by giving them longer in veg. Good luck!

It's definitely got side branches that are visible, in comparison to the gelato you've got next to her she does look like she's not got anything, take off a few of those big leaves the ones that are 2nd down get rid of them and that should help on its own.

I can't tell you how or why that's happened, some seeds are just weird mate. Try bending her over to see if that promotes some growth but it looks as if its fully flowing now also which makes me think that you may be better just doing a strategic defoil to get light under the canopy.

genetics? maybe something early in life just set the timer off and it flowered earlier than others? It's still got some vege growth left, it looks.. so it may bush out more befoe it's done. more perlite or similar for drainage may help. vermiculite adds plant useable silica. with soil it's better to be near 50/50 with perlite or equivalent. if this was somethin within your control, an improved root zone would help. you'll need to irrigate more frequently, but better aeration and general health for roots. studies show 50/50 is best with a substrate that holds a lot of water... this is why coco suggests 70/30.. it holds 2/3rds the capacity of typical 'soil.' (which is a loose/boad categorization in itself) so, if it's lighter than typical soil, less than 50% is good too, and in genral 50/50 doesn't ahve to be super precise of course, lol... small potatoes within eyeballing-it range of error.