DaisyI said:Your plants are doing their best to live up to your standards but there are a lot of environmental factors at work here also. Anything that signals (to an annual plant) that summer is coming to a close. Warm days and cool nights, a little water stress....
kittriana said:Usually if stems are long, it is a shortage of light causing them to stretch. Not every stem is a predetermined length anyway. If these are in containers they may simply not have the roots to support a larger plant.