Free Promo Seed "Critical" by RQS (1st time growing outdoors)

First time planting seeds outdoors (balcony) but have also done a few grows indoors. I have a backyard, but the way the bushes and trees are currently lined up, it wouldn't get more than 6 hours of direct sun. On my balcony I can get up to 12-14 hours of direct sun. Any tips on pest control or treatment would be welcome, I have not encountered any real pest problems indoors. I will be growing her entirely organically, relying on a slow release pellet fertilizer that I'll add to the substrate, requiring only tap/rain water until I add liquid organic boosters in flower. I'm planting a little late, in July. Since the seed was free, I'll just use it as an "outdoor trial run", I'm not expecting huge yields, just want to gain experience.

Not much of a difference to last week, the rough germination with a flipped taproot, paired with the slight scorching has really slowed down growth for a few days. Seems healthy otherwise and mostly if not fully recovered, still very short but that is probably because the strain is indica dominant. No issue with pests so far, sprinkled food-grade DE around the dry grass and around the bottom of the pot.

A bit late on the week 3 update. New growth looks very healthy but asymmetric. The issues during seedling stage was too much of a stress-factor, she will stay very tiny it seems. Still looking forward to seeing her flower.

Been a busy week but here is the update finally. I was barely able to keep her in the sun due to how hot it got lately, the leaves just start to burn so quick. - kept her in the morning and evening sun only as best as possible. I have replanted her into BioBizz Light-Mix some humus and slow release pellets, all organic. Just gonna water her until flower where I will add some guano (1-10-1) + palm ash (0-1-30)

Had some minor thripe infestation, increased regularity of neem-oil application.

Looking quite good considering the late plant in july and a slightly scorched seedling. Getting ready to flower and the thripe infestation has been dealt with.

Was away this week so not really any pictures or updates. Added some string support in case of heavy weather while I was away.

Stretch is done, she's budding up now. Did some very minor "defoliation', basically opened up the front side so the sun can penetrate properly. Didn't need to water the past 2 weeks thanks to the rain. All nutrients are anyway within the soil. Since flower began, I stopped applying neem-oil and now I spot a red spider mite and other millimeter sized bugs appear every now and then. Doesn't look like an infestation at all though. I'm more so worried about the millions of grasshopper who miraculously have avoided my baby for now, it better stay that way!

Totally forgot about my post here... She sadly didn't become much, we had frost for a week during early flower which seemingly stunted her for the remaining time. Her buds didn't grow in size for weeks and climate was about to make everything rot so I cut her. Got around 11g dry material, didn't expect much more since it was planted in July as a try-out, good experience. While she didn't grow in size, the buds were still ripening into a 30% amber!