Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this but I wasn’t sure where to post it.
I’ve got 2 photo plants (Blue Widow & Blue Headwreck) in 7 gallon soil bags. Both started under T5 bulbs and sexed around 5 weeks of age. I kept them real close to the T5 fixture when they were young and they were very compact. Once they both showed female, they were moved to my new grow tent and went under a 600w (at the wall) quantum board fixture at 3000k spectrum on 20on/4off. I did some fairly heavy LSTing not too much later as well as some defoliating. Initially, I had the light about 16” above the plants but a moved the lights up as high as I could in the tent (maybe 2-2.25’ above now) The issue is, they have never stretched out and are SO dense that I’m not sure what to make of it. I’ve defoliated a bunch and they just fill right back in. I’m just back to growing after 25+ years away and I never had plants like this back then; and the autos I’ve been growing don’t do this. You can see how tight/stacked things are in the pictures below. They’re 2.5 months old already and, if the node spacing was even close to normal, they’d be filling my tent. It’s got me ‘throwed!’ Lol.
Is this normal? Is it a function of the light being too strong?
I’m going to be flipping them in 2-3 weeks (I’m waiting on some autos) and I’m wondering what I can do,
if anything, to get them to stretch out a bit. I feel like they will have problems or not maximize production with such a dense structure. Any advice would be appreciated!
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The plant on the left is the Blue Widow and the far right is the Headwreck. The tent is 5x5. So, that gives you an idea of their general size.
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