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After a few months of absence, I am happy to see you all again and to be able to practice and share my favorite hobby with you.
I made a choice of 6 beautiful varieties from the magnificent catalog of Royal Queen Seeds.
My selection is based on species that are about the same in size and flowering time.
I make a separate diary for each variety.
1. Royal Cookies: I had already bred twice before. It remains one of my top favorites.
2. Royal Gorilla: I have bred last time, and is also recommended.
3. Special Queen: once bred with fantastic results. Moreover, I have also seen this species in two other growers, both indoor and outdoor. An immense plant. Respect!
Since my last grow, RQS has added a lot of new varieties, which is why these news:
4. Purple Queen: Purples used to be not so good. But the new generation of purples is fantastic. It is now winter where I live, so during the last 1-2 weeks of cold nights the beautiful purple hues will be able to fully develop again.
5. Green Gelato: Have heard a lot about Gelato, but have never been able to enjoy it. I'm going to change that!
6. Fat Banana: I can not imagine anything, but the name sounds wise. The expectations are therefore high.
DAY 16 First time Topping
DAY 17 Repotting from 0.5 l. (BioBizz light-mix) to 3.5 l (Canna Terra grow +)
The plants show a slight shortage of nutrients 😏, but by potting them to the new nutrient-rich cultivation soil, the shortage will soon be solved 👍
DAY 29 Plants are doing great. Tallest plant = 20.cm, Smallest 17 cm
DAY 30 Topping 3rd time
DAY 33 Repotting 2nd time from 3.5 l .to 25 l..
50 liter B'Cuzz/Atami Bi Grow Mix (0.7kg/m³ 12/14/24)
10 liter Plagron perlite
140 gr; Vertraforte (= 2,38 kg/m³ 6/7/12))
3.57 gr Biotabs Bactrex
35.71 ml Biotabs Orgatrex (5/1/5)
All plants from tall to small :
FB1, RC1,RG1,SQ1,SQ3,RG2,PQ3, RC2,FB2,PQ2,GG1,SQ4,SQ2,GG2;RG3,SQ3,GG3,PQ1
FB = Fat Banana
RC = Royal Cookies
SQ = Special Queen #1
RG = Royal Gorilla
GG = Green Gelato
PQ = Purple Queen
DAY 44 All plants are in excellent condition
All leaves have beautiful dark green colors
Significantly fewer leaves than the other varieties
I have manually bent them every night to obtain a reasonably flat canopy
Plant nr. 1 : 36 cm
Plant nr. 2 : 32 cm
DAY 46 The plants were visited by Oyzi Scissorhand. Neatly cut and now ready to be put in bloom.
A week of hard work with defoliating, debranching and manual bending in order to obtain a nice flat canopy, from 5 to 6 main branches per plant.
DAY 2 :
Royal Cookies #1 : 45 cm
Royal Cookies #2 : 44 cm
DAY 7 : Defoliation & debranching
DAY 9 : Height :
Royal Cookies #1 : 57 cm
Royal Cookies #2 : 57 cm
I put some support under the pots to obtain a flat canopy
Royal Cookies #1 was growing a bit faster at the start, but Royal Cookies #2 has now caught up
DAY 12 ; Defoliation for the last time four days ago and I stretched a net to support the colas.
DAY 16 : Because of the net, I can no longer photograph the plants in front profile, and that is why I now take photos from the top.
Still no liquid nutrients, only root stimulator. Vertafort and Biotabs do the job fine (for quantities see week 5).
Plants are very healthy. No signs of shortages, no problems with too much nutrition.
Royal Cookies #1 = 82 cm ; 5 colas,
Royal Cookies #2 = 77 cm ; 6 colas 😍 My Favorite 😍 Beautiful dark green leaves with dark purple tint 👍
With my first grow of Royal Cookies - with which I had won the 8th 'Diary of the Month' award in August 2017 💪 - I had not topped the plants.
This time I topped them, but afterwards it seems better not to top them. I believe Royal Cookies are most beautiful if you can bloom in their entirety with one cola.
Plant n ° 1 is less purple and - despite my trim techniques - has one cola that is much higher than the others. Two colas are even smaller and will unfortunately not be able to receive as much light.
Plant n ° 2 is undoubtedly the most beautiful plant: It has beautiful dark green, almost purple-green leaves. The colas are all equally high.
The plants do not show any nitrogen deficiency and therefore I give them only a quarter of Alga Bloom since this week. From now on they also receive half a dose of Green Sensation, and a half-dose of Sugar Royal every week. I'll wait and see how they react to this, and then I'll adjust the dose next week.
Royal Cookies n°1 : 96 cm
Royal Cookies n°2 : 84 cm 😍 My favorite 😍
Sturdy plants. Small tops. Hard and stiff trichomes. Many trichomes, even on the leaves.
Dark purple leaves, especially plant n°2.
I do not give them too much fertilizer (nitrogen), the leaves are dark green. Only liquid nutrition with a high content of phosphorus and potassium.
Growth has stopped.
Royal Cookies n°1 : 96 cm
Royal Cookies n°2 : 84 cm
Fantastic colors. Deep purple. 😍
Small buds, Rockhard. Stiff of trichomes. 👹
Plant 2 still has all of her leaves. She is turning completely purple.
Plant 1 is less purple, But she is more majestic : great in length, more robust .😵👇😩
I now switch to cold nights of 10 ° C to get them black-purple. 🙀😻😾
DAY 44 : pictures 😎
DAY 47 : start flushing , no liquid nuts anymore
DAY 52: The Cookies are in their last week. The difference between the two plants is clearly visible on the photos. 😲
Plant n°2 is purple all over. Not the smallest bit of green. 😍
No fertilization, so that there will also be no unpleasant smell or taste in the end product. Only pure water to rinse out all the remains as much as possible. 😭😭
Small buds but extremely hard as rocks. 👍👍👍👍👍
The height of the plants can be found in the diary of 👉 WEEK 12. 👈
A treat for every cannabis connoisseur. Dense small tops, sprinkled with trichomes. Rock hard with a fantastic aroma. Strong, sweet with a heady scent.
The crumbling of the hard purple tops brings you into the cannabis heaven. Smoking or better vapen transports all its terpenes in the perfect condition to delight your senses.
Easy to grow. Great disease resistance. Yield is less, but you do have top quality ! 😍
Thx Commander, It is nice to see how positive cannabisplants reacts to topping, bending and other pruning techniques. That's the beauty of cannafarming 😍