First Grow!

Relax, everything is fine. The plant looks healthy and even stretching a bit, if that didn't happen initially, of course. You have a small plant in a large pot. The tap root is the focus right now. It's going to be slow until it hits bottom and fiddles around a bit before it figures out there's no place to go... then, the plant's going to focus on above ground growth more. It'll average out over time, roughly, if not a tad slower, maybe? You won't tell a difference by the time it's all done filling out for 12-12 or if auto simply blooming. it's an auto.. just give her a second.. the pot size dictates height, and that's a 3-gal? 2-gal? she's gonna get full-sized. small radius around plant as you do now, it seems. Slowly increase. Because you can't rely on runoff, you willneed to account for evaporation with some ph-only doses of irrigation occassionally, or it may build up where roots do not exist... difficult to get teh benefit of a 20% runoff if not watering entire pot, which you can't do yet without other issues from that.

I'd advise by counting your eggs before they hatch 😳 backwards I know, but it's better to keep an open mind and read read read! I had a similar problem but not to that extent. It's my 1st time and I'll follow you too. In my case they stretched only I added more soil and made sure it was packed but not really packed, just enough to hold the main stem. Hang off the nutes for a couple feedings and Lower your lights a bit, read bro. Good luck 👍😁👊

Hello Butcheebudz! I hope you are enjoying the path of learning how to grow! To answer your question: I would definitely start over. I'd like to help by giving you a thumb of rule for developing healthy autoflower seedlings during the first 2 weeks of growing: 1. Forever home -Start with the big pot to avoid any kind of stress during their short lifetime. 2. Keep PH at 6.5, already during the germination stage (papertowel method strongly recommended). 3. Don't feed them any nutrients other than rhizotonic and root stimulator during the first 2 weeks. 4. Make sure the light is not too far away and not too close either. They will stretch if they are too far away and they start to "pray" if the light is too close. 5. Provide around 0.5L/24h/plant, pour slowly. Also keep humidity in your grow tent between 40-60%. I promise you, if you follow these steps you will see a big difference in your next grow! Good luck I hope for the best! 👽