Advise Please with First Time Grower of Clone

[SoCoLandGuy]

Picked up a Indica clone from local dispensary. First attempt, low (no) tech, and only using sunroom light. An initial experiment so to speak. So, It has been home about 3 weeks. Today I transplanted from the Solo cup to a 3gal bag and trimmed a few of the larger leaves. Seems to have several nodes, but no noticeable branching. Not sure if I need to do anything, or just give it time. Here are some pics from today. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[MercDod]

It appears (as well as I can see), there was not enough hours of light to allow the plant to veg (grow out to be big and plentiful), and it has begun flowering so I would not expect much at this style of grow.

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[Ninjadogma]

Picked up a Indica clone from local dispensary. First attempt, low (no) tech, and only using sunroom light. An initial experiment so to speak. So, It has been home about 3 weeks. Today I transplanted from the Solo cup to a 3gal bag and trimmed a few of the larger leaves. Seems to have several nodes, but no noticeable branching. Not sure if I need to do anything, or just give it time. Here are some pics from today. Any suggestions would be appreciated.View attachment 2620878View attachment 2620880

What can you tell me about that soil, looks heavy on the bark fines and light on the perlite, is that Miracle Grow?

Not sure if it was your intent or not, but that clone is flowering. If you didn't mean to, you can prevent it by making sure the plant gets not more than 9 hours of uninterrupted darkness. Weird light schedules can stress a plant. The gold standard is to give it 18 hours of light and 6 hours of dark every 24 hours.

Because this clone has started moving toward flower, you can let it continue or you can reveg it. If you let it continue you might get a couple fun little buds to look at and learn from but not enough to smoke. If you reveg it, the plant is going to appear to stall with very slow growth happening while it does. Time wise, it can be a 1-2 month penalty to get the plant back on track. There's some cool reasons you'll want to, but if you're shooting for a calendar date to have something ready to smoke, my suggestion is get yourself a grow light, run it on an 18/6 schedule and go back to that dispensary to grab a new clone you can start now. Your monstered clones will get all nice and branchy when they reveg, but they can take a long time to bounce back. That's why I suggest grabbing another fresh clone while you let that one do it's thing.

That soil looks a little in the wet side too. Are you letting it dry up a little between waterings?

 

[SoCoLandGuy]

Thanks folks. From what I gather, this clone was likely under a grow light for 18-20hrs a day and then came to my house where there is only about 10-12hrs of decent natural sunlight (being late March) in the mountains. Sounds like that reduction of quality light had it transition to flowering. I will just let it roll and consider it a fun $15 experiment. Just dipping my toes in the water. Maybe I will get a cheap tent bundle and get some more going. Would like to move them outside this summer. Will need to read up on that. Thanks for the input!