Tall and not-so-tall

[PapaJoe]

Hi, y'all. First time indoor grower trying to get some White Widow buds for Christmas. I have 2 plants in soil in just their second week of flower. My issue: the plants are different heights. #1 sprouted a couple of days before #2 and #2 has never caught up. My LED light distance is set up for #1 and I've had to raise the whole pot for #2 about 4" now. Both are healthy and have a lot a bid sites developing. I suppose the question is whether 2 will ever catch up to 1. And, is it normal for plants to be so different in size?

[NebulaHaze]

It might help if we could see pictures, but generally if you have one plant that's taller than the other you want to use gentle bending to try to bend it over to match the other one. Indoors, you get the best results if you can grow all your plants in a flat, table-top shape as opposed to tall and skinny.

If one plant is getting too tall compared to the others...



Bend over the tallest branches and secure them down until every branch is the same size. I like using plant twisty tie to tie stems down but you can use anything besides string (since it's too sharp and will start cutting into the "skin" after a day or two)




However, only bend stems that are soft and flexible, which is the newest growth! Don't bend parts of the stem that are thick and stiff or they will snap!



If you're not sure, post a picture of your plants and we'll see if we can help!

[PapaJoe]

Thanks for the reply. I have LST'd the bigger one a bit and the height difference isn't as bad. Again, thanks. The GWE site has been so helpful, btw.

[Speedygreen]

Slightly different pheno. Nebula has it nailed tho. Lst ur tall girl. Happy harvest

[PapaJoe]

Thanks, Speedygreen. I had started LST on #1 a few weeks into veg and kept thinking that the smaller one #2 was gonna catch up. No biggie tho. They are both green and growing toward the light! My next concern will be the RH.

[ZigZag]

I must agree with the posts above, it could be how your plants are trained or not. But from my experience_ limited to only three grows, has given me a little perspective. I have only grown from seed so my response is confined to that. Anyway, every crop I have grown so far I have had different results from the same package of seeds. Some tall, some not. Some mature as much as two weeks later than the first to do so. All have exactly the same environmental, growth mediums, nutrients, light, etc.Go figure right? So after a bit of research I found that The same seeds from a mother plant_ most often a hybrid, can produce some plants that exhibit either of the characteristics of Indica or Sativa. This is suppose to be because the sativa gene is recessive. In the grow that is nearly finished I have OG Kush and Skunk #1. The Skunk is suppose to be more sativa dominant but a few of the plants definitely look more indica, and the others look about right and one looks mostly sativa. The OG Kush has similar results. The last two plants to mature, one of each type, both look very much the same. Same size, same leaf shape, same look to the buds. But they do smell a bit different. One thing is for certain though_ even though these last two plants are taking longer they are larger and are producing huge colas. The buds are going to be fantastic. The largest I've grown so far. I also have been raising my slower plants so they are at the same height as the tallest_ sometimes they catch up and sometimes they don't. I guess all that really matters is the final result. Hope that helps. At first I thought I had gotten the seeds mixed up, but had been very careful not to.
Now I think it was just due to the phenotype that resulted from the cross and it may not have been stable, making for variable results from the same batch of seeds. That must be why some folks prefer to grow from clones because they produce more predictable results?

[Royal Nugs]

Yep, you are correct zigzag, clones are very predictable given a similar environment.

Man o green has mentioned before about seed finder. It will show you phenotypical variations of strains. F1 generations of a cross typically have characteristics of both parents and are uniform. When you get further into F2, F3, etc is where you will find more variation of characteristics. At least, this is how I understand it.

[PapaJoe]

Thanks for the feedback ZigZag and Royal Nugs. This being my first grow, I'll work my way through this one and have a better idea what the heck is going on in the next batch. If my next two come out different from each other, I think I'll be able to select which one to clone (another learning curve) based on what each "style" of plant yields.

[Royal Nugs]

Just curious... what breeder did you purchase your seeds from?

Since White Widow is such a popular strain, there's many phenotypical variants from breeder to breeder. For instance, Dinafem's WW has 2 short phenotypes typically. Greenhouse Seeds has one that's short and one tall.

[PapaJoe]

I got them from Amsterdam Marijuana Seeds (AMS). WW Feminized. They said the WW was an easy grow, sooo. I got a ten pack so I still have 8 that might or might not look like these.