Auto-prune???

Is it weird that she generally only keeps 3-5 sets of fan leaves, and kills any fans lower then them. Kind of an "auto-prune"???

Grow details here
https://www.rollitup.org/t/first-grow-ever-ilgm-ssh-fem.856642/

It seems normal, maybe it is mostly indica and not going to grow side branches right away. Are the bottom leaves getting enough light? Overall, nothing to worry about, the rest of plant looks pretty good. It looks like it could use a little more nitrogen, and make sure you are not overwatering... that soil does not have any perlite to help it drain... good luck!

Are u feeding it nutes? looks like it might have some burn

Yeah, I tried upping to 3/4 strength and it gave me a bit of burn. I've since moved back to half strength again where she was stable.

Perlite, peat, little bit of my compost pile, a good scoop from my worm bed

Looking over your grow..Something is definitely up. I Feel your pain.

Is this an auto of Photo?

Scotts is terrible. I also think you don't have proper drainage or enough light.. But, your main issue I believe is Cal.Mag deficiency. I just ran into this problem and my lower leaves all died and fell off. It really screwed my grow. It will stunt growth of leaves and buds. I tried adding more N like you and just burned my leaves a bit.

Try some Cal/Mag and see if it fixes things. Next time get a nice 3-5 gallon pot with good drainage and fill it with Fox Farms and Perlite.

The only bad thing is I live in an extremely remote area, probably 2 hours to hit a city with any decent grow shop, and nearly an hour drive to nearest Wal-Mart. This is a very budget grow, been using what I had laying around, +200 dollars, purchased nice seed stock $100, lights $60, plumbing and other odds ate the rest . . . It's a photo of the actual soil I used in the bottom of a white bucket, the soil really isn't all that slow to drain and has a wet dry cycle of about 3 days, she is showing(by wilt and droop)and liking watering every 5 days, haven't gave nutes in 3 water cycles, but did cal/mag the last. She has shown that off and on throughout her grow