HELP! ADVICE! NOOB growing plant, next steps?

[luisilloguerra]

Hello everyone!!!
Hope you all doing good, and staying safe!
SO im a SUPER NOOB on growing plants, i a have this beautiful baby growing in my backyard. Been researching a-lot on growing, training, pruning, etc. but still have a l ot of questions.....

So, i see several issues first of all spider-mites, you can see the white dots on the leafs, i just recently saw that neem oil helps and I started as of today to spray the leafs with water *ATOMIZER, to get ride of them naturally. i checked the stem and its kind of purple-ish, which is read it was a root issue, my biggest concern is, its growing like a XMAS TREE or lollipop as I have read, can i at this stage of the plant do some trimming, and change the pot its in for bigger and horizontal growth, can i trim it to make more yield?
ANY other advice would be SOOOO much appreciated,

Thanks in advance.
LG



Any advice on

 

[gorillaglueaaron]

The idea with lollipopping is to cut off all the smaller growth that won't get a lot of light not just cut off everything other than the main stem. Also, you're outside so lollipopping isn't really important. I would just treat the mites and then let it do it's thing.

 

[luisilloguerra]

The idea with lollipopping is to cut off all the smaller growth that won't get a lot of light not just cut off everything other than the main stem. Also, you're outside so lollipopping isn't really important. I would just treat the mites and then let it do it's thing.

THANKS! Should i change the pot its in? this one i very shallow its 6 inches deep. I have a bigger caly pot i could put it in, what do you think? any idea?
Thanks again!

 

[Greenjourneyman]

All th elittle white dots are mite bits. That’s a bad infestation

 

[gorillaglueaaron]

If you want my honest opinion I'd say just chop it down. It's gonna be a lot of effort to save it and there's only a few grams on there. You won't make the same mistakes next time so at least you learned something.