I have an outdoor plant that is about 4 weeks in since planting into the soil from a seed and it seems to be stretching a fair amount during the early vegetative stages. I was just wondering if this is common/normal or if something is off with the growing conditions. I live in the Los Angeles area, so there isnt much I can do about lighting or changing my grown conditions, but if you have any tips im happy to hear. I have attached a couple of pictures. The first picture is when i transplanted into its final grow pot (about 1 inch between canopy and soil and the second picture of the stretch is from today (1 week later from planting into the final grow pot. I have also filled out the below information for your reference. Any help you can provide is great!
Indoor or outdoor? - size of grow? Outdoor
Otigin of seeds? Seeds
Regular, feminized, or autoflower? Feminized
Origin of water. PH, EC/TDS of source water? La City Water
PH and TDS/EC of if mixed solution? PH 6.5 / Feeding 1 TBLS/gal of Fox Farms Grow Big
The location they are in would be for direct morning sunlight when not cloudy. The issue with were I live and grow is that we are mostly overcast until later June, but if the clouds weren’t there, the sun would be directly on the plants.
I have two other plants that are the same strain and from seeds (so potentially different genetics) and they are not stretching nearly as much, so I was wondering if there was anything in particular I can do to this one to maybe curtail the stretch a little.
Also wondering if this would harm or inhibit the yield at during harvest.
When topping/fimming, ive seen conflicting knowledge on when is the right time. With how the picture is, I am only seeing about 2 nodes. Is that too soon to fimm/top? Im not sure if you count the singular pointed leaf that sprouts after the cotyledons as a node or not. If you do then maybe I can? What would you recommend?
You’re pretty close to when best to fim her. Looks like the third node is emerging. I’d target that one. When you this you’ll only cut the top 40% of the top leaves in that node.
Here’s a link on how to fim.
Outdoor plants are typically a little longer spaced from node to node. This is due to the amount of far red/near infrared light the sun produces. That being said, light from sun up to sun down would probably help this. Like the wall behind photo looks like it could shade plant for at least a small portion of the day. Even small increases in light duration will help this.
Every time I have grown blue dream the first thing I wrote in my grow log was that plant can really grow. It tends to be a bigger than average plant when comparing to other strains. It’s what I like to lovingly call a stretch monster.
I think you are getting a first hand glance at this habit there.
