My First Grow

[Selad0n]

I've recently moved several plants outdoors. They were under a very weak light indoors for about 2 months before I found a good spot and moved them. They've been out there for about a week and have already gotten much bigger, but are developing yellow leaves on the bottoms of the plants. Some plants already had the yellow you see towards their tops when I moved them outdoors. They were too big for the indoor location and the 16oz cups and developed yellow leaves on the tops. I've read this may be nitrogen deficiency, but am not sure. I'm also wondering if it's too late to clip any of these to make them more bushy. You will notice that a couple of the plants are lowryders and are already flowering. Here are some pictures:

 

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Lowryders looking good.

The others: not so hot. I don't want to recommend any specific course of action with fertilizer because I'm pretty new to this but half strength with a balanced 10-10-10 / 20-20-20 / 10-15-10 type would probably help if you haven't been feeding and let the soil get dry between waterings. You should have to dig your finger in to feel moisture before you water again. They should start to perk up in the nice sunlight now that they're outside. You should start with morning sun and afternoon shade for a week until they harden off especially since they've been starved for light for a while by the look of it.

To get them to bush out try some LST (low stress training). Just GENTLY bend the top part down to the side of the pot and tie it off so it wont spring back up. The plant will naturally put the most work into growing at the highest point. If you make the middle the new top than it should branch out from there. I wouldn't expect new growth to come from the area below where the leaves have died off. You can add soil to cover the bare stem if you want and that will help it from flopping around so much and maybe grow more roots from up there.

Depending on your latitude you still have a chance to grow some good bushes. Best of luck!

 

[Selad0n]

Thanks for your advice! I tied down 3, but unfortunately had to ditch 4 males. The good news is I added 4 very neglected plants to the mix and hope they can recover. Here are the latest pics:

I ran out of batteries, so two of the plants in bad shape are not shown.