Newbie here, no stretch observed

[radrichie61]

So, not sure if I had one or not. What I read about the stretch indicates that a strong period of growth should start at initial flowering.I am new, might just be uninformed but everything is same size for the most part. Used what I thought was a good feeding schedule of cottonseed meal, bone meal and muriate of potassium. Plants healthy, everyone has said so but small. Do you see a stretch? I don’t but again newb here. Here are pics from beginning transplant to the ground, to where I was Monday.

Thoughts?

 

[Phytoplankton]

Yeah, there’s some stretch, and I have a feeling they’ll be more in the next couple/few weeks.

 

[radrichie61]

Thanks phytoplankton though I prefer studying zooplankton here in coastal NC.

 

[Pat Puffer]

No stretch but definitely budding now. No worries; some strains grow compact.

 

[Phytoplankton]

I actually picked that handle on a ocean fishing chat board. Phytoplankton, bottom of the food chain!

 

[radrichie61]

Maybe the bottom but the rest of us would not be here without ya…

 

[radrichie61]

Thanks guys for chiming in. Any advice to increase bud size and yield. I am using Mother Earth 2-4-4 instead of powered and granular nutes and just introduced it. Adding roots organic microbe charge for the first time as well. Finally I have a 0-10-10 bloom booster from “Alaska” brand. Spoke with another grower on here said if I try it to go half strength, which I planned on and to use it on one plant, which I planned as well.

I want to do the best I can for my first grow and feel like I should let it just go as is, but…

Thoughts?

 

[Phytoplankton]

Sounds like you’re going in a good direction, use the nutes at recommended amounts and combinations, you should be fine.

 

[SmokingWings]

Do you see a stretch?

Yes.

One point about your photos. In order to use them to help judge the 'stretch' and how much stretch has already happened then it is best if the person taking the photos stands in the same spot each time. Moving around or moving closer to take a photo of a bud stack throws everything off.

Using the photos in your first msg the one thing I looked was the size or length of the bud stack. Those show some stretch. Hard to tell how much but at least several inches on each of the larger stems. Can also use the small corner of the fence where the fast growing vine is showing. Compensating for the different angles it does look like that spot disappears by the time we get to the last photo.

Usually the more stems or growing tips the less each one will stretch. On plants with a single main stem and a few side stems the stretch is very noticeable. As the number of growing tips increases the amounts of available flowering hormones get spread around so the stretch on each stem is shorter.

Keep in mind that many gardeners who have done both inside and outside grows mention that the bud growth and the stretch growth seems to be slower when outside compared to indoors.