Unusual new limb growth in strange places

[Phoenixman21]

I'm mainlining a plant and tonight I noticed new limbs growing in strange places. One is near the base randomly shooting out of the side. The rest are coming out of nodes that are already formed like a third arm. Any idea what would cause this?

[Toker1]

The plant is just trying to obtain more light and grow. It’s totally normal for this to happen.

[Phoenixman21]

Thanks for the ease of mind Toker1. Huge help

[Juicyj89]

True true. And from my experience with manifolding, which is basically the same as mainlining, I notice when I trimmed or lollipopped down the main stem that if i didn’t pretty much get it all the way down it would start growing new leaves where I had cut it. Sometimes it would still try to grow new leaves even if I did! It’s crazy how adaptive this plant really is. It’ll do anything to thrive and survive! 😂😂 but yeah Toker1 is totally right. I’m bummed tho. My plants are totally sucking. Luckily it’s not the GSC. But I can see there little heads just starting to break thru! Anyways, your plant looks good Phoenixman21. Super sturdy gurthage lol 😆

[Phoenixman21]

Juicyj89 I'm beginning to learn how adaptive these plants are. It blows my mind every time I mess something up and they bounce back like it never happened. Thanks for commenting and thank you for the compliment. It definitely is very sturdy. Lol. I just did the last bit of cutting last night to get me my 8 mains. Can't wait to see how it does from here and what the yields will be. I'll keep yall posted.

[Phoenixman21]

While I'm thinking about it Toker1 and Juicyj89 my last grow never stretched during flower. Could that have been genetics? If so, since I'm using the same strain, I need to plan for that. If not, and I possibly did something to prevent it, I'll have to figure out what I did to keep it from stretching and not do that again. Any help/advise is greatly appreciated.

[Toker1]

Yes, sounds like it. Some strains stretch longer than others. Also underwatering and/or malnutrition can cause slow growth. That could potentially be a factor as well.