First Indoor Auto Grow

Getting your plants to "stretch" doesn't really mean bigger plants, just taller and more spindly growth and where there is a bigger distances between the nodes, with corresponding stretched and fluffy flowers. Plants growing in full sun with a gazillion watts will grow bigger and faster than under a 400 watt LED light indoors. Have patience with your seedling, she is just a slow starter and try and resist temptation into trying to get her growing faster by bombarding her with nutrients of any sort. Hope this helps,... Organoman.

She is showing preflowers so she has hit maturity. Ull get a couple weeks of stretch but at the size she is she will almost certainly be a small lady. If u keep her tied off and anchored ur restricting her ability to lengthen the main stalk. She hasn't produced many lower branches to utilize the LST technique. Imo its hurting ur potential yeild doing it at this point ur hurting development of ur main cola for 2-4 side branches. Dont think it's an effective way to utilize this little girl. I'm in now way telling u what to do. Shes ur plant fam! Just letting u know my opinion. Happy growing and stay lit fam.

I would maybe set your lights to 12/12 for a few days. Maybe she just needs a nudge to get fully into flowering. If she doesn’t start production of buds in a few days then put her outside for her flowering and let nature take over. Lol I know some photoperiod strains though will take 3+ weeks to finish stretch and start to grow real buds. I’ve also had some hybrids take on more of their sativa traits in some phenotypes and this will extend stretch and preflower as sativas tend to take much longer to flower and stretch more as well. Could just be this happening too. Honestly though I don’t mess with autos to much so this is only an educated guess.... lol hope it helps ya maybe though, cheers 💨

Hi there,here’s my rule of thumb for harvesting period.During that time,the leaves will show deficiencies, yellowing and most of the white pistils become orange.The best method is using 60x microscope and check trichomes colour.If trichomes are mostly milky/cloudy about 80/90 % and fill with some amber colour, it’s the time to harvest.Flushing or not flushing is your choice.Happy growing... ✌️