7-9 week old plant growth help?!

Twiztd420

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Just wanna start off by saying that I am a newbie, and have a slight clue of what I’m doing but I’m worried about my baby. It’s about 6-6 1/2 inches tall and just about 7-9 weeks old. No leaf yellowing, no dying foliage. New growth appearing steadily she just seems really short. I don’t know the strain as it was a random bag seed that I decided to germ one day. Any and all advice would be wonderful!
I should also add that either today or tomorrow I plan on starting Jobes organic all purpose plant food. Lack of nutes may be the problem, just figured I’d ask.
 

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NugHeuser

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It's a healthy green color and in a large pot full of fresh soil, personally I wouldn't add nutes yet. What are you using for lighting?
 

Twiztd420

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Like stated above it gets sunlight. It’s kept outside on my terrace. Not doing anything special to it, just letting it grow by natural light. Not forcing it to flower at a certain time. Just letting it go and seeing how it does. That’s why I was concerned about it’s height.
But like I also said. No yellowing leaves. No dying foliage. You can see new growth almost daily. It’s just a stout little plant.
 

PigKiller

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It could be an Indica. I have two from some old seed (AK47/diesel from seeds I found in a bud from a dispensary) and the where very slow starters. I almost gave up hope. The plant looks good so just give it some time is the only advice I can give.

And how are my slow starers doing now? Not too bad at all!
Seed was planted 2-23-18. Photo was yesterday.

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
-Molière
 

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Twiztd420

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See that’s what I thought from the wide and short leaves. And I know that a lot of plants go thru a growth spurt when they are flowering, doubling and sometimes tripling in size.
 

Twiztd420

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And mine was planted either the first or second week into April. (I don’t honestly remember because we had found out at around the same time we were pregnant so a lot has gone on). Germinated in paper towels.
 

newgrow16

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Current grow from seed, soil, indoors led, at 5 weeks I topped at 8th node and removed three bottom fan leaves along with branching, flipped to flower at 6-7 weeks with branching. 6 different genotypes indica and sativa all pretty similar at that point. Northern latitude with not enough light? I would expect much more at 9 weeks.
 

Twiztd420

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It’s about 7 weeks, planted either the first or second week of April. Like I said working on it’s 6th node. I haven’t done any topping or any types of training. I live in the midwestern part of the states. Gets good sun out on my terrace.
 

newgrow16

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not suggesting you top or cut, maybe too cold first few weeks? I don't know if anything is wrong, my outdoor plant in socal feb was stunted because of lack of light and low temps.
 

Gentlemencorpse

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So I guess I'll elaborate since a lot of the comments above aren't super helpful. Your plant looks fine. Is it kinda small for 2 months of vegging? Sure. But that could be genetics (which you don't know) or the amount of light it gets based off your geographic location (which we don't know) which effects hours of sun light, average temps and humidity etc., or it's actual physical location (ie. Is it getting full sun all day, part of the day, in the shade etc.).

Your also not hammering it with nutrients like a lot of established growers, so it's not going to grow as fast. A lot of the commenters making statements regarding it's size at 7 weeks, or saying it looks like a 3 week old plant, whatever are comparing it too a plant that has been grown in strictly controlled environments rather than in nature, where marijuana grows much slower and more eratically.

My advice, if it's not in a potting mix with time release fertilizer (which is junk btw), is to start feeding it some nutrients at a very low dosage. Organic tomato fertilizers are good if you don't have access to weed specific nutrients. MegaCrop is giving out free samples, so you can Google them. Haven't tried it yet, but a lot of folks on here love it. Also you may want to transplant it to a bigger container soon, preferably something at least 5 gallons, but the bigger the better.

Otherwise, keep doing what your doing. It seems like half the newbies on here are drowning or burning their plants too death within the first week, so I'd say your kicking ass so far.

Oh, and as always, if your serious about this as a hobby, read everything you can find. All the grow journals on here are great sources. www.growweedeasy.com is also a great place to go.
 

Twiztd420

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The temps did drop a couple times in the last week and it was cloudy so maybe. I just couldn’t figure out what it could be thru research or advice from others.
 

newgrow16

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i have little experience so should not say anything, the plant looks very healthy and could grow a lot in three more weeks, second week of april makes her 6 weeks--big difference between that and 9 weeks!!
 
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