if large distances between growth nodes, it's your light being too weak. if it's structured properly you just grew them well.
you'll get different results in similar sized pots if you use soil nutes vs hydro/soilless nutes. the latter are plant ready and correlate to much faster growth. you can get a much larger plant out of the same sized pot compared to soil nutes. look at any old solo cup or tiny pot comptetion. the soil nutes result in some 7g scraggily plant with severe issues throughout the grow, lol.
Once you flip to 12/12 it'll be another 4 weeks of vege growth at least.