Royal Dwarf - first grow ever

@@piritino, Btw i've considered your advice to increase the pot size but ultimately came to the conclusion that it would cause too much harm to change pots while an auto enters the flowering stage. I did some research and found out that the max. yield you can get out of a 1 gal pot is around 30g, which is more than I'd smoke in 6 months anyway. Hoping for 20g+ on this grow. That said, I'll definitely get much bigger (fabric) pots for my next grow.

@@piritino, Thanks :) I increased a little bit today to 2.25ml/l each, but I'm a little hesitant to go higher because some leave tips are still yellow. Not sure if this is really coming from the nutrients or something else. What was the maximum that you fed?

@TheMightyShark, ok, thank you 🙏

Hi @Leonard_Lunte, I usually fed her at 50%-75% of the official BioBizz nutrient schedule. Keep in mind that the first week of the official scheme is actually week 3, as they recommend to not feed at all in the first two weeks. Some leaves of my girl were and still are showing signs of nutrient burn. However, after observing her for several weeks and checking many other diaries, I came to the conclusion that those were most likely caused by LED light stress. Imo you can just feed 75% percent or less of the official schedule and you should be fine.

@TheMightyShark, thank you! I'm using a timer and I think I will keep 18 hours of light a day until the end. I might go to 16 hours if the plant is taking to long to start flowering, just to give her a push. I hope I don't need to go lower then 16 hours because of course in the long run it will means less yield. I'm already scared to do LST becouse it's 15 years since my last grow which was done with scrog, but I don't know if scrog will do the job in this case because I should do some topping at some point but folks suggest to not top an autoflowering strain because it has a short life cycle and recovering from topping takes time. Non the less i've seen lot of people topping their autoflowering without any problem. For sure topping should help a lot if the goal is having all the branches and buds at the same height, but in the end I don't know if I'm going to do it. I only hope it will not takes so much more then 8 weeks as it should because, as you said, lots of folks went way beyond the 8/9 weeks that this strain should take.

@MicroG, thanks for your comment, glad that my diary is helpful! Frankly said I think I did a very bad job with LST. I was scared to do something wrong because it was my first grow ever, so I only bent the main stem for 2 weeks or so. After the flowering stretch, however, the plant almost completely reversed my LST. I think if you do proper LST you can get a much much smaller plant. If you do a lot of LST I think 35cm can be possible, though it's definitely going to be a challenge. Also, my vegetative stage was fairly long for this strain. I'm 90% certain that this has something to do with changes in the light cycle. I switched the lights on/off manually when I woke up and went to bed, sometimes there was more than 1h discrepancy. @Pirinto did the same in his Royal Dwarf grow and his plant even took 9 weeks to flower. I have no idea if this is a reliable method to extend the vegetative stage of auto strains, but if it was, one could apply high stress training methods like topping to stimulate horizontal growth. But like I said, not sure if this is reliable, so take it with a grain of salt.

@SavageGarden, hey mate, thanks! Yeah I used the 3.7l pot for the entire grow (which I do not recommend though)

@The_Bearded_Grower, it was mostly between 15-16h since I did not use a timer socket and usually put on the lights shortly after I woke up (the plant is in my sleeping room btw). Definitely wouldn't recommend doing that, but since I'm not smoking much anyway (0.5g a week maybe), I decided to only buy a light, a small fan and biobizz soil + fertilizers. I harvested today and will update the results in 7-10 days