My young pot plant looks extremely healthy yet is growing slowly and very bushy

Is my plant growing slower than it should be? I don't understand why it wont grow any taller. Should i start flowering it now and give up with the plant? I was thinking about starting to flower it soon and just start fresh and do everything right from the beginning with the soil, ferts, etc.
 
Here's Week 4 day 1 and 2 pics

The plant rose from 4 1/2 inches to 6 1/2 in 2 days which was a huge increase to its prior growth in relevance to time.
 

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If you want her to stretch out bud just put it in a larger pot, that pot is too small.

Do not water every day, only when the soil is dry atleast 2 inches deep. If you
start flowering it now you wont yield much. It looks over-watered though and that would be
your growth stunter.

I would transplant in a pot atleast twice that size, since your only doing one plant wouldnt hurt to have a over sized pot.

You usually want to start flowering when your plant is around 12 inches tall or has 8-14 internodes.

Heres a tip, whatever size your plant is... its going to triple in height during flowering. So say you have a plant thats a foot tall... it will be 3 feet when its done.
 
Does anyone think judging by the pics i posted, do you think i need to trim the lower branches that are inside the pot? Or do i need to transplant it just yet to a bigger pot?
 
People seem to love hacking their plants... not talkin about you but people in general...

Honestly it doesnt make any difference in yield so I just leave my girls natural.

Maybe towards harvest cut a few fan leaves to get light to the buds but thats it.

I would just leave it man... until those leaves stop drooping it doesnt need any more stress.
 
Thanks for the helpful information. But do you think i should transplant my plant to a bigger pot just yet? Or do you think its fine in the pot it is right now?
 
Pics are up for Week 4 day 4

I just transplanted my plant into a larger pot...hopefully its big enough to finish flowering in? I used the same miracle gro moisture control soil, but added 1/3 pearlite to help with drainage and circulation.

The plant stands at 7.5 inches at the moment.
 

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quick comment... you dont really need to mist your plant anymore...

its mature enough I'd just strictly feed it through soil, its still looking droopy from overwatering... or maybe its still recovering.

One if the best ways to know if your plant is happy is by the leaves. Upwards is a happy plant... droopy is sad.

It's all about the plant being happy, when my leaves are not erect I take notice and try to figure out what is wrong.

Thought i might show you an example. Here is my Auto-AK47 almost looks perfectly healthy,

but it was hot for a few days so she tells me by her leaves edges rolling upward.

Leaves always warn you when conditions are not favorable.
 

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Yea i feel as though i have been overwatering the plant, but plan to wait a bit for the soil to dry up before watering it again. So your saying if i hold off on the water a bit, or atleast cut back, that the leaves will become erect again? Or are they set and damaged as of now?
 
Another point to add: when i took the plant out before transplanting it to a bigger pot i noticed the roots were wrapped around in a giant circle at the bottom of the one pot, which clearly seems to have been rootbound. Would this play into why my leaves are droopy? I just want my leaves to be erect up, not drooping down towards the soil.
 
yup... good that you took note.. she will def droop when your roots start to bind.
Now that you have her in a bigger pot she should be alright.

You wont see her leaves go up right away... sometimes it happens but many times it can take up to a week or more to start perking up.
Your plant will be fine though no worries, overwatering wont cause permanent damage since you havent gotten nitrogen deficiency yet.

and your roots should find the new soil and start expanding in a few days.
I dont know what size pot your using but I always transplant mine into a 5 gallon bucket before I start flowering.
 
I'm not sure how many gallons this new pot is, but its 15 inches in diameter compared to the previous pot i used that was 10 inches. You think this pot will be large enough or should i go out and pick up an even bigger one?
 
The problem I have with most of those store pots.. the roots on a marijuana plant go deep... not wide.

So you need a deep pot more than a wide one... could be 15 inches wide but how deep is it?
 
I hate to bother you with yet another question, but i woke up early this morning when the lights came on at 4:00am (20/4 light cycle) and i noticed the plant is drooping alot more compared to how it was before i transplanted it. Could this just be from shock? I kind of have a feeling its a mix of being shocked along with being either underwatered or overwatered.
 
Could be transplant shock, was there any roots that broke when you pulled it out of the pot? Dont give her nutes tell she looks better.
If your not sure if your over or under-watering just let the soil dry out and water it until it drains... all I can tell you.

If your soil is constantly moist then your overwatering. could also be the new soil if you didnt flush it before transplanting,

sometimes these pre nuted soils have a excess ammounts of nutes that need to be washed out.
 
Well for the issue of transplant shock none of the roots appeared to break...rather the entire circumference of all the soil from the original pot was all intact and rooted all around the sides and especially heavily on the bottom.

Even though i used pre-nuted soils (Miracle Gro Moisture Control to be exact) i never flushed before transplanting the first time...and just recently when i transplanted to an even larger pot i did not flush the soil. What could be potentially harmful to the plant if i didnt flush the soil before planting/transplanting? I feel as though the rooted ball from the previous pot was too compact and when placed into the new pot (even though theres more room to grow) that its too compact or compressed for the roots to grow out or grow properly again.

Oh and one more thing...even though their pre-nuted soils, i tested the pH of the soil before transplanting and it was at a solid 6.3. That was after watering the plant down with egg shell water to prevent a pH too acidic for the plant to thrive in.
 
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