Short nodal distances question?

[FrankFoster]

My question is...

What causes short nodal distances? Like nodes less than a .25 cm apart.

6 inch plant clone of og has 27 nodes off of the main stem.

Multiple strains all doing it.

Input on density of nodes needed.

 

[hashinado]

27 sounds like a ton for a 6 inch plant, so there's like 5 per inch? That's wild. I know some strains have genetic traits including short internodal spacing but not sure what would cause a plant to do it on its own. Maybe some kind of stressor but not really sure.

 

[OG13]

Are you under fluorescents?

 

[Fuzzy Duck]

As OG13 suggested are you under fluorescents / cfl ?

We can only assume that the plant is still in veg stage of growth due to guessed height & lack of information !


Lets get back to cfl/fluorescents...

These are often used in veg stage of growth due to light spectrum (BLUE) 6400k (kelvin) or more commonly known as PAR, lumen has very little to do with any thing plant wise.

This spectrum of light helps keep the plant short/stocky/bushy creating shorter node space

Its what some of us like to use in indoor grow situations ftw.


Now when moving over to flowering the spectrum of light changes to (RED) aprox 2000k (kelvin) this spectrum of light is assoiated with high pressure sodiums HPS.
Some cfls/fluorescents do come around the 2700k (kelvin) range but you will find these to be more orange in the colour spectrum, which is not as good for flowering but can suffice for the budgit grower.

 

[FrankFoster]

I would say T-5 at 6500 is exactly the cause. Seems the clones had undeveloped nodes and then the 24/0 did it. But the cause i think is also the full nutes spectrum being perfectly availible 800ppm 5.6-5.9 ph. Good input.