@Cocofan Iâll help you out, and others can also chime in.
But first a suggestion to make things more stream line and to make this site better.
If you have a question or issue to ask someone we donât need to do it through a PM unless its more directed, but the question you may be asking will be relevant to others and may serve better in a thread for other to see.
Also you can just tie someone into the question by using an âatâ by trowing an @ in front whatever users name you want to grab attention of ;). Cause otherwise those people may miss it and creates redundancy with a PM.
But yeah anyways on to the question, and iâll tell you my onion on what happened and what we can do now.
Lets take a look at your picture from 2 weeks ago and today and iâll do a break down.
2 weeks ago
now
Issue with big pots in a limited space is a plant no mater how you go about growing it will always try to get as large as its root capacity will allow. So it will grow in every direction that it can sense it will grab more light.
Now if that space is limited and the plants root capacity is big enough to out grow said space we are going to have some problems.
So take two weeks ago, at this stage the plant has throw out more than enough nodes/shoots to easily fill your space as it âcontinuesâ to grow and expand and try and take up more space which there isnât any more of except for going âupâ.
With the plant starting to crowd its own nodes out, what happens is the leaves sense they are getting less light than they were before. This causes a chemical change in the plant which effectively tells it to start growing up to try and get past whatever may be shading it, in this case its own nodes/shoots.
for the plant if say only some lowers fans were plucked with the top layer still fighting with each other for light, or plucking to many fans causing the plant to think its getting too little light in the process, what we get is a mad dash to the light by the plant/plants to get as much energy as they can.
Thus we have stretch.
If those nodes were trimmed back at that point, or were spread out further on say a screen, or some fan leaves were plucked back to provide unobstructed space for the leaves to gather light, we would slow the stretch and fill things out evenly.
Now ideally the earlier you can control things the better, but what can be done now, as you have surmised either training and or more plucking. First lets bring the canopy level and spread it out and down if it needs to happen as the plant will still continue to grow just slower as it enters flower.
So LST, âZâ Bends, super cropping âpinch and bending over topsâ and or pruning scraggly nodes/shoots where the surrounding others will enjoy the extra space and light. So leave as many shoots as it will fill the space, if you need to pluck some fan leaves to accomplish this go ahead, your working to get an even space where the shootâs or plants arenât fighting each other to much.