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?
