Stunted Growth? Growing tips

1 MONTH and 4 DAYS since germination and planted into a cup.

The fan leaves are HUGE, feel like bottom leaves weren’t getting much bigger at all or doing anything really. I took off the first true leaves and the first set of leaves from first node. There are branches forming at nodes and this plant is getting really bushy. I topped my plant, but I think I FIM’d instead lol

Medium: coco-coir, peat moss, vermiculite
Nutes: Silica powder, Fox Farm grow big and big bloom. I used mycorrhizae/trichoderma (1 time) and fulvic/humic acid (2 times) powder too.

pH: ~6.3-5
EC: 1.8-2.1
Light cycle: 17/7

Questions:
1. Am I getting FOUR nodes after topping or TWO nodes with TWO branches???
2. The roots aren’t super crazy yet, but I feel like I should transplant soon. Should I???
3. Why is growth of plant taking long??? It’s pretty short and kind of bushy.

Please give me any tips or help. Greatly appreciate it! Peace.

Transplant. Alternating nodes each have 2 branches im seeing. In a solo once the leaves broaden out like that you can move it.

After topping plant will rest for a bit before growing again. I would upcan to bigger pot, let her roots stretch out and shell take off again.
Dont worry about time , focus on keeping it short and bushy. You wont regret having the patience for her to grow into a bush.

ComfortCreator said:

Transplant. Alternating nodes each have 2 branches im seeing. In a solo once the leaves broaden out like that you can move it.

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Okay will do.
Also I just watered today and followed week 4 of the Fox Farm feeding schedule. It says to switch to 12-12 lighting on week 5?
What if I want it to veg longer because growth is a little short? Should I just keep it at 17-17 light cycle and continue with my regular feeding?

lime73 said:

After topping plant will rest for a bit before growing again. I would upcan to bigger pot, let her roots stretch out and shell take off again.
Dont worry about time , focus on keeping it short and bushy. You wont regret having the patience for her to grow into a bush.

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Roots have a problem growing through the thick medium because I forgot to add perlite, which I will do when I transplant. Thanks

Veg as long as you like, long as it not an auto, then you can flip to flower whenever you want to. Keep feeding at last veg feed til you ready to flip, so feed same til ready.

MrAnxiiouz said:

Okay will do.
Also I just watered today and followed week 4 of the Fox Farm feeding schedule. It says to switch to 12-12 lighting on week 5?
What if I want it to veg longer because growth is a little short? Should I just keep it at 17-17 light cycle and continue with my regular feeding?

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The guide is the least amount of time to grow it the fastest. Its actually poor advice except for experts growing SOGs.

Grow it as long as you want until you flip. It just grows, gets bigger and builds a better root system.

What is the coco/peat ratio?
Why did you add vermiculite?
Your pH is a bit high.......should be around 6.0 for coco.

MickFoster said:

What is the coco/peat ratio?
Why did you add vermiculite?
Your pH is a bit high.......should be around 6.0 for coco.

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Not sure of the ratio. It was a mix I bought from Jiffy Seed Starter Mix.
Okay, I just make sure pH is ~6.3 so it’s in a good range. Run off is usually pH 6.0 so i thought it would be ok