My first grow -- thin stem, and slow growth it seems?

Hi, my plant is 11 days from seed now (Lemon Skunk). She is about 6 or 7" tall and has what I would say is 2 nodes and her first 4 leaves are getting pretty big, with news ones popping up already, although the stem is quite thin and I have had her propped up with a bamboo stick for about 4 days now. I have her in a 6x6" pot, in a bigger box to reflect light with about 150w cfls around 2 inches above her running 18/6. I water her every second day, with a VERY low dose of nutes in the water, and mist her in between when she's looking pretty dry. I plan on transplanting her to a bigger pot soon for her to grow in until harvest. I'm wondering if this is a good technique for growing my plant, or if there's any other good methods I can try!!

when you replant bury the stem will help get ride of the stick

Take the support away from the plant ,
take out the hard lumps of matter in your soil ,
top up your soil to stabilise the stem and let it stand under it's own weight, mix some "perlite" into your soil to lighten the mix a little.
Introduce a light blowing fan to strengthen the stem.

Thanks for the tips! I was planning on burying the stem deeper so it would hold itself up, and I realized a while after planting that there shouldn't be all the lumps and bark in the soil.

i didnt read all the thread but i did read the title, ever thought about pinching the stem with ur nail? not hard enough to break but just enough to break the stem wall and it causes fast growth to the stem to repair its self! I do it to every plant and never had a problem

hppy2balive said:

i didnt read all the thread but i did read the title, ever thought about pinching the stem with ur nail? not hard enough to break but just enough to break the stem wall and it causes fast growth to the stem to repair its self! I do it to every plant and never had a problem

Click to expand...

Cool idea, I think that I'm going to give that a shot tonight on a test plant and see what happens, makes sense though, sort of a supercropping technique...although thinking about it a little more I wonder how much (or if) it will stunt growth...only one real way to find out.