Dream Queen '19 (outdoors)

losangeles67 Im in Week 12 of an outdoor grow. Never done this before. Two of my homeboys are my advisers so to speak. I started from Dream Queen seeds from the Humboldt Seed Co. Apparently there's another Dream Queen strain out there, decedents of Blue Dream & Space Queen strains. My Humboldt seeds are from Green Crack, Skunk #1 and Mazar Star strains. Again, Im new to all this so I have no frame of reference for what all that shit means. I'm assuming its good. Anyway. This shit is a lot of work. Im not sure I would have done this had I REALLY known. Shit was fun in the beginning until I had three plants turn male. Should've destroyed the first one immediately. I tried to keep it on the other side of the property but then two more of my females grew nuts. Had to destroy them. GORGEOUS plants. That wasn't fun. Then I had a quick battle with whatever the hell was eating my plant leaves. Id been shopping around for a natural predator for weeks. My moms overheard me talking about Praying Mantis so she got me a pod for my birthday. But at that point, i hadnt researched it enough. The packaging on the pod said a hundred or more baby Manti might hatch plus I didnt feel like raising/learning about praying mantis while also figuring out all the ins and outs of growing. So Moms had to return the pod. To make a long story short, I bought 2500 green lacewing eggs and applied them to my plants. I think it worked....? Im not sure. I saw two or three larvae crawling around. But I also didnt see anymore ate up leaves. All that shit wasn't fun. Things are fun again now. I watched a bunch of youtube videos about pruning, cropping, basically...training...the plant. Ive applied a mix of these techniques. I think I pruned my plants WAY too severely but after four days, I don't see signs of stress. I super cropped my king colas. Watching the other colas respond to the kings head being chopped off is a trip! I think I need to up my game on my watering schedule. I think my leaves are a bit lite.