5.5 weeks old i feel like shes really small

[khaotic24]

I feel like she's really small she is gorilla cookies this is my first grow so I'm still learning I have changed lights once started using nutes and only water when dry I didn't do LST because I didn't know about it until it was probably 2 late

 

[Kamau42]

It's not too late to train it. I don't know why you only filled the pot halfway. I'd transplant it into a bigger pot and not put it so low. I'm sure it's hard to water now and its just gonna get harder. Plus it looks like it could use a bigger pot anyways.

 

[khaotic24]

It's not too late to train it. I don't know why you only filled the pot halfway. I'd transplant it into a bigger pot and not put it so low. I'm sure it's hard to water now and its just gonna get harder. Plus it looks like it could use a bigger pot anyways.

Not gonna lie I didnt know much when I first planted it I have tried to learn as much as I can it is a pain to water

 

[Kamau42]

Not gonna lie I didnt know much when I first planted it I have tried to learn as much as I can it is a pain to water

Well it looks good so you're doing something right.

 

[khaotic24]

Well it looks good so you're doing something right.

Thank you I know she's short because I had my light 2 close at the beginning and she didn't have to reach I just feel like she's short and bushy

 

[DancesWithWeeds]

Here's an easy way to tie it down. It's works really well. Use rubber bands and pipe cleaners. The rubber band keeps constant tension on the plant. If you just tie it down you have to keep adding tension.

Here is an example. There's a rubber band holding this. leave it like this for a day or two and then tighten the rubber band. Be careful not to break it. If it breaks tape it up with electrical tape.


You can keep tightening down until it is horizontal.


This took about three or for days. You can tie the whole plant down like this. It's easier if you drill holes along the top edge of the pot to tie to. This isn't my pot so no holes.

 

[DancesWithWeeds]

Added to previous post:
It doesn't take much stretch of the rubber band. Use lighter rubber bands and pull easy.

 

[khaotic24]

Ok I will try some light lst as soon as I get home

 

[Delps8]

Thank you I know she's short because I had my light 2 close at the beginning and she didn't have to reach I just feel like she's short and bushy

No! Your light was not "too close". The fact that she's short and bushy indicates that you gave her a good amount of light.

Light is how a plant makes food — your plant received enough light so that it didn't have to "reach for the light". Instead it's got a lot of (smaller) leaves and branches.



After three years of traipsing around three cannabis sites, my view is that many (most) growers don't give their plants near enough light and then end up with tall, slender plants, with large leaves, large "internodal space", and limited yield.

Cannabis is a light whore loves light. The plant in the picture I've attached is 6 weeks old and has been grown under a dedicated veg light and has been given, pretty much, as much light as it can tolerate (the "light saturation point"). A veg light has a lot of blue photons to keep the plant short and, since it was given the "max" amount of light it can tolerate, there's a huge amount of foliage.

Once the plant is flipped to flower, it will fill most of the tent (that's why I grow only one plant at a time).



A look into the foliage. The metal "ring" is how I do LST - I hang lead fishing weights from shower curtain hooks to bend the branches down. Most of the branches in these photos have 2 2 ounce weights on the branches.



This grow is from a year ago.