Royal Dwarf - outdoor

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Fixed the attacked plant with good old duct tape :-)

Flowering started!

The attacked plant is something like 62cm. The other one growed to a not-so-dwarfy 90 cm... Wow!

Went on holidays for a week. Had to put the smaller plant inside because of heavy rainfall forecasts. That one still looks pretty good, despite the snail attack and duct taped stem earlier in the grow. I started giving blooming nutrient (Alga Bloom from Plagron) just before I left (so that's week 9). Other than that, the whole grow only has been 'fed' with tap/rain water. The weather has been shit for the past 10 days or so. The big one is showing some strange patterns on the leafs which concern me... As a friend of mine gave them water (+ some blooming nutrient) once last week, he told me 3 leafs were a bit brighter. Just 4 days later, it looks much worse so I thought I had to act quick. I guess there is a lack of kalium and phosphorus, so I gave the plant water + a little bit of Alga Bloom + a little bit of Green Sensation. I hope this will turn out well... Hoped to be able to harvest them at week 12, but I'm not so sure... Weather is shit and will be shit for at least 7-10 more days. Tell me your thoughts! :-)

Both plants don't really go much further apparently... Like they are having a break or pause. The big one still loses leaves (all of its big ones are gone by now) and shows purple dots, brown spots, yellowing, curling... I hope they will both recover and finish soon...

The weather looks better for the coming weeks, finally. Just in time, because I've already had two buds forming bud rot. Of course I removed them immediately. This grow has been quite stressful so far. I keep getting insects i don't want (spider mites, fungus gnats, ...) and I'm inspecting the plants every single day, trying to remove as many as possible by hand. Also trying to avoid wet soil at all times. I just hope they will finish in max. two weeks from now, what do you guys think? I must say they look much better IRL compared to photos of my shit phone. Although the discoloring of the leaves + the spots on the big one concerns me... I guess the purplish tint is normal to this strain, since they've got enough Phosphorus with the green sensation of Plagron.... But I'm not a pro :-)

So... Week 13 in... I guess I'll chop them at the end of the week. Started giving plain water now. Thinking about putting them in the dark for 48/72h. The big plant turned almost completely purple, I have no clue why this is happening but it looks nice. Could be due to the cold, temperature/weather has been shit for the past few days. Give me your thoughts guys!

Unfortunately, once again (last grow too) I had some bud rot in the last week before harvest in both plants with the biggest one largely affected. Because of that, I had to remove all infected parts and have an early harvest. I picked out all fucked buds, gave my plants another two days of (finally!) sunshine to dry out the cut-outs I did on the plants. Today I harvested the smaller one and was surprised it actually was quite alright in terms of yield. Tomorrow, I'll cut the big one and I hope there will still be some good bud structures left as this one grew so nice, especially for being a dwarf :-D Will update as soon as I've got more news! UPDATE: I cut the big one as well and am very pleased with the yield I have from this grow. Was not an easy grow since the weather was shit and I've had to throw away some decent buds because of bud rot, but all in all it looks promising :-) DRY WEIGHT: 48g of fresh buds (had to throw away at least what could have been 10-15 grams because of bud rot)