plant going retard?

[sheist]

5 week old plant, stuck on its 3rd node.

4th node has REFUSED to grow in for the past week and a half / 2 weeks. As of yet, I've seen some wierd retarded growth at the top, looking similar to a small rolled up ball string you'd make out of boredom from loose hemming in your clothes.

Has anyone had a situation like this?

The pics provided were taken days ago, but after seeing new retarded growth earlier today I'll be sure to take a pic tomorrow morning.

sheist Reviewed by sheist on 07-11-2009. plant going retard? 5 week old plant, stuck on its 3rd node. 4th node has REFUSED to grow in for the past week and a half / 2 weeks. As of yet, I've seen some wierd retarded growth at the top, looking similar to a small rolled up ball string you'd make out of boredom from loose hemming in your clothes. Has anyone had a situation like this? The pics provided were taken days ago, but after seeing new retarded growth earlier today I'll be sure to take a pic tomorrow morning. Rating: 5

[michaelpeg]

did you top it or something? it looks like it

[dbud1369]

yeah, it looks like something cut or snipped the top off, after something like that happens, there might be a lttle bit of the stem that shrivels and then dies. Similar to the trimming of fam leaves

[sheist]

exactly, but thats the thing.. i havent cut it, fimmed it, topped it or anythin. for the 5 weeks its been growin, its jus simply stopped.. only stress i had it under for the 1st 3 weeks was just a lil irregular light schedule and heat stress for when i was building my grow bin. The other 9 are doing great but this one is just acting so Stimpy (thats its new name lol). When I do somethin to a plant, like LST, top, fim etc, I label and date its action on its pot. No new top is really growing in at all. Two fan leaves from the node thats SUPPOSED to be coming in, appear warped and twisted around eachother.

[syde00]

have any pets like a cat? cats seem to love to eat the plants and could have bitten the top off

[syde00]

it really does look like it was FIM'd... i would be surprised if you see shoots start coming out there over the next couple days... thats basically exactly what my FIMd plant looked like after a week or so after i did it

[sheist]

nope, no action was takin on this one.. no pets at all.. its just me around these kids, i like to jus sit and watch them.. like 10 hrs a day, 7 days a week.. i've no choice but to give this one more time and see wat happens with it, but I've started germinating more as a plan B..

[sheist]

speaking of FIM, I did attempt this on 4 kids.. 2 were topped. For the FIM part, I'm not sure but i feel like i fucked up, as the new shoots came in from after the cut, it appeared that i merely only cut off half of the two fan leaves and left the new shoots in tact. But according to the pictures I've seen, my cuts started out the same. Is that what normally happens when it comes to FIMming?

[LOC NAR on probation]

Not really up on femming. From the pic it looks like it will start branching like it was topped. 1 out of 10 and something wierd happens. We always have about 2 out of 10 that are runts or misformed and started out as good or better than the rest. That's our reason for not all our eggs in one basket.

If that was my only plant or a female mother I would die. But then again it's still alive. Where there is life there is hope.

[dillhole]

I had one do that last year. It topped itself at about the third node. It then developed two shoots from the second node that later became nice colas. That same plant also had growth shoots that topped themselves.

There are some pics on the link in my sig.

DH