Very weird plant!!! Expert advice needed!!!

Looks fine to me. Space between will increase a bit as it grows. Some strains start more crowded than others.

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I have a similar plant in my tent right now. I defoliated and topped it once. It's still bushy but it appears strong and healthy, even though it's the shortest of the four.
Do you know the strain?

 

You don't mention what strain you're growing. I'm growing some feminized blueberry that grows that way. It is an extremely short and bushy plant (and very slow grower too) with a very large stalk for such a small plant. But it has a root system like nothing else I've ever grown and is one of the most beautiful strains I've done so far. All these plants are different and will grow differently. But from what I can tell by your pics, everything looks good and healthy. I'm thinking it's just the strain you're dealing with and that's the way it grows. Very close node spacing is what makes it seems so cluttered and full. Just keep it healthy. I took one of mine and tied the tops back to open the plant up. Two days later, all that undergrowth that had been hidden down in the center is now up and the size/height that the tops were before I tied them down. More than likely, your plant is just going to end up looking like a bush. But if you give it good strong flower lighting during the cycle, it'll produce some killer buds. TWW

 

I was going to say this is exactly how my blueberry looked early on. It was by far the bushiest plant I I've ever started

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Here is a picture of an autoflower white widow I did.

It wasn't the best grow, but it does look similar to yours on how it seems to stack in on itself.

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My first grow I had a plant like that as well. Just grew kinda funky. Turned out fine though. Trim the really big leaves off the plant so the bud sites underneath get light and they'll grow out. It will be a nice plant once it grows out. It will be a marijuana bush. It's how I prefer my plants anyway, usually you do it through topping and training, but it's already seemingly doing it. Give the bud sites light. It will look like you cut too much off when you do it, but after a few day it will fill back up. Just the really big leaves that block bud sites. They need the light most. After all, we want big buds, not big leaves.

 

We've grown feminized White Widow around here for years and occasionally, I'll get a clone with tight node spacing like that...but not often. Most of the widow plants we have grow up...in height, more than bushing out. I've got some in flower right now that we're vegged 2 months (approximately) before they went into flower and they're around 4.5' tall. I had to raise the lights some last night because I got afraid it would burn my tops. I don't think I've ever had one with node spacing that tight though. Must just be the phenotype or something. Bushy or tall and lanky, they'll all produce some KILLER bud. White Widow is, by far, the most popular strain among those I share mine with and I have no desire to cut them out of the garden. LOL Just needed some variety and thought I'd try the Blueberry since I'd never worked with it before. I hope the buzz is good with the stuff. It's a beautiful plant with gorgeous buds, but it just takes too dang long to do it's thing. I've got a Blueberry plant that I started at the first of February and have had it in veg ever since. I took WW clones 3 weeks ago and have already had to pot them up into 1 gallons and they are now taller than the Blueberry I've had since February...so she's a little slow. If there's one thing I've learned since messing around with this stuff, it's that these different strains are like children. They all do their own thing their own way and you can't compare one to another. TWW

 

What you are describing with the branching is how cannabis grows


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Tww- veggin blues is like watching paint dry. But there is some beautiful looking girls/ flowers. I feel you on that . worst veggers

 

Totally normal my dude.


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I am growing green kush and purp kush both feminized. After 5 weeks of veg I have had to do a lot of trimming. Indicas grow short and bushy. Very thick. At least mine has. I also am a new grower on my first try. After trimming it takes maybe 2 days to get back to normal. I am trying to scrog. Having a little trouble. The green Cush grows faster than the purp. I'm trying to slow the green Cush down. And only having some luck. I know my own plants do better if I tuck under the leaves or tie them back. Much less stress

 

That's exactly how most autos grow. Fast, short, bushy. I wouldn't top the autoflowers... Takes too long to recover and it'll take away from precious grow time. Some LST is fine. Bending, tucking, tying, etc...


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I grew a white rhino like that. It was very short but very dense. Much like your plant. At first the fan leaves covered the branches.

What you want to do is bend / fold the leaves below the branches. Dont cut them but fold them down.

Nothing wrong with tight internodes.

Pro tip #27: Tight internodes = Dense growth that takes up less space. This is good ✓

 

You should top it then lst it. If its so dense i would even consider toping and leaving 4 branches and then lst them and now you have 4 main branches. You could raise your light a little forcing your plant to stretch, making it easier to lst.

You could even top above the 3rd node, leaving 6 branches. Some people top and leave only two branches, but it takes abit longer for the plant to catch back up. You can top your plant as many times as you want too. Look up mainlining. Highly reccomend incorpirating this style of growing into your methods of madness