This plant was an absolute dream to. Grow, no issues at all with health of plant, just struggled to tame her as she was a a thick strong climber 💪💪. I'm so impressed with how this turned out, I could have flushed for another 3 days to make it 12days but I needed the space. After The 2 days of dark I was recommended I can definitely say it has vastly boosted her trichomes and the smell when I opened the tent blew my head away 😍😋 Aiming for a 10-14 day hang dry, The 10-12 weeks curing in jars with humidity packs. I will update with a dry bud weight and smoke test 👌 Bud wet weight is just 500g+ Final bud dry weight is 298g. Of juicy resinous purple and orange buds 😍 smells like sherbert and hang dry smoke test revealed a candy sherbert, no banana yet but hoping like the grow it matures with cure process now. Hits eyes straight away, sandy bottom kids, giggles, munchies, fun time with Mrs, bed. Full cycle with this one very happy over here 😉😁💚 FAT BANANA AUTO FROM ROYAL QUEEN SEEDS, big thank you to the team, and the breaders. What a pheno I received. I appreciate you all

Growers Diaries – Sweetopia (Paradise Seeds) Week 6 Bloei (dag 42 van 12/12) – 2 planten Strain 🌱 Sweetopia – Paradise Seeds Algemene status 📈 De stretch is allang klaar en de planten zijn nu volop in de dikke bloeifase. Buds zwellen fors op, worden hard en compact. Suikerblaadjes zijn bijna volledig bedekt met trichomen. Pistils zijn grotendeels bruin/oranje aan het worden. Geur is intens: zoet tropisch fruit (mango/ananas), citrus en een zware gas/hasy ondertoon – de tent ruikt al heerlijk als je binnenkomt! Omgeving 🌡️ Dag 24–26 °C Nacht 19–20 °C RV 42–48 % (laag gehouden voor harsproductie) VPD 1.2–1.4 kPa Luchtcirculatie sterk met oscillerende fan + clipfan – geen hot spots onder de BestVA Licht 💡 BestVA BP4000/Pro4000 @ 415W (12/12, dim op 90–100%) Afstand tot canopy 35–38 cm PPFD 900–1100 µmol/m²/s op de buds Bloom-modus volledig aan – diepe penetratie, buds worden dikker en dichter Pot & wortels ? 11 liter Air-Pot BioBizz Light-Mix + 20–25 % perliet Wortels zitten vol in de pot, maar focus ligt nu helemaal op de bloemen Voeding week 6 bloei 🌿 pH altijd 6.2–6.3 EC in 1.6–1.8 EC run-off 1.9–2.1 (lichte opbouw, volgende week spoelen) Schema deze week: Bio-Bloom 5 ml/L + TopMax 4 ml/L + Acti-Vera 2 ml/L + CalMag 1 ml/L 3.5–4 L per plant, 3x per week Trichome productie is nu echt explosief Training & ontwikkeling ✂️ Defoliatie ronde 2 en 3 gedaan (alle grote fan leaves die licht blokkeren verwijderd) Canopy nog steeds mooi gelijkmatig Buds zijn dik, compact en beginnen al wat kleur te krijgen (lichte paarse tinten mogelijk) Calyxen zijn gezwollen en bedekt met hars Gezondheid & trichomen ✅ Bladeren nog grotendeels donkergroen, wat ouder blad geel (normaal in late bloei) Geen plagen, geen schimmel, geen tekorten Trichomen: 70–80% melkachtig, al wat amber begin te zien op suikerblaadjes Super plakkerig – vingers blijven eraan plakken bij aanraking Hoogte nu 📏 Plant 1 → 52 cm Plant 2 → 62 cm Sweetopia maakt haar naam meer dan waar! Met de 11L potten en de krachtige BestVA 415W Pro LED worden dit echte harsmonsters. Nog 1–2 weken tot oogst (rond dag 50–55), flush starten binnenkort. Dit gaat een dikke, zoete en plakkerige oogst worden! Tot week 7 bloei (eindfase) Super sticky vibes ✌️

How RQS Compares to Your Standouts Brothers Grimm (your "otherworldly" stars: Montel Iced Tea, Body Count, Bubbles Blueberry F4, Ricky’s Hash Plant, Black Tangi Tea) These are landrace-influenced, heirloom-style genetics with exceptional resin, unique flavors, and structure. They outperform RQS in quality, potency, and "wow" factor in your tents. RQS tends to be more commercial/hybridized for ease and yield, while Brothers Grimm prioritizes distinctive traits and consistency in experienced hands. Humboldt Seed Company autos (your top autos for resin, especially OG Triploid) Humboldt focuses on West Coast legacy genetics with heavy resin production. Clearly superior to RQS autos in trichome density and overall quality. RQS autos are faster and easier for beginners but often lack the resin "frost" and depth you get from Humboldt. Fast Buds (fast, flavorful, reliable autos — you like them a lot) Excellent speed and flavor profiles. You noted they're in a "different class" — fair point. Fast Buds emphasizes quick cycles and modern hybrids with nice terps, while RQS autos can feel more generic or require more coaxing. Quick Thoughts on Your Observations Brothers Grimm (Montel Iced Tea, Bubbles Blueberry F4, etc.): These are clearly the stars in your current setup. The strong smell, unique leaf morphology, and overall vigor in small pots show they're expressing well under your conditions. They reward careful growing with quality that feels special — resin, flavor complexity, and effects that fit your low-dose, functional style better than most commercial lines. Your homemade cross (Gelato 44 × Bubbles Blueberry F4 pollen = "Blueberry Knockout"): Nice work on your first intentional cross-pollination! Getting viable seeds and decent plants from a garage-level cross is a real win. It’s not "pretend breeding" — it’s exactly how many great lines started. The fact that it turned out "pretty nice" is encouraging. However, as you noted, combining a Royal Queen Seeds Gelato 44 (solid but commercial) with Brothers Grimm Bubbles Blueberry F4 (higher-quality, more unique genetics) creates a hybrid that can show the best of both, but also some inconsistency. If the RQS side brings easier growth but less depth, while the Brothers Grimm side brings the special traits, the offspring can be hit-or-miss depending on which phenos you kept. RQS Gelato 44 / Mike Tyson 2.0 vs. Brothers Grimm: Your experience matches what many growers report. RQS lines are generally more "user-friendly" and higher-yielding for beginners or volume grows, but they often lack the resin density, terpene complexity, and unique expressions you get from Brothers Grimm. The Tyson 2.0 collaboration added hype, but in your tents it landed at 7/10 while Brothers Grimm hit "otherworldly." That gap in quality is why you're leaning toward sticking with the professional, boutique genetics going forward. 3/30 11:17PM Gelato 44 & Punch Pie were nice right off the tree the little buds put me right to sleep last night!! The Autos are 7-10 but the Photos are 8/10

Beautiful plant, very sativa looking,super citric lemony aroma,very strong like skunk, just a real pleasure to grow, taking advantage of the way I grow which is organic I'm able to feel the best and most pure aromas, this girl is amazing, another great strain by FastBuds!

35 dias de actividad en el indoor, foto periodo de 20 horas de luz y 4 de oscuridad

420FASTBUDS ORT2109 All in all I would say this was an amazing and easy strain to grow. Unfortunately the worst happened with my flower tent and a few of the girls cought Powder Mold. So I ended up salvaging and harvesting what I could from a few of the plants left before completely overhauling and scrubbing the tent down from top to bottom. I decided to do a dryice sift with the flowers that I saved. I had some trim left over from a past grow so I mixed everything together and Wow am I happy I did. Probably the sweetest smelling kief I've extracted. I'm glad I have more of these seeds so I will not only recommend this strain but definitely be growing it again. I'll keep my fingers crossed that the improvements I've made with the tent I'll have better results as that's what growings all about. Learning with every grow from your mistakes and trying not to let it get your discouraged cause from my experience the more issue's you come across and learn to resolve the better grower you will be. Happy Growing

Seeds directly In coco jiffy Bruce banner seed spend more time then other 2 to get out...

Only keeping damp with water at the moment

Nearly 2 weeks from 12/12. Some of the plants are having a good Stretcheing

These gals are doing fantastic! Smell is really starting to come out now, smells like a very strong citrus pine 👌🙌 Switched them to full strength flowering nutes and they're doing pretty well. I probably should have transitioned them a little earlier but a little stress doesn't hurt, they're growing just fine! Heat is also an issue but they'll manage 😅 8-4-18 :: Largest plant's bucket got empty on accident; Filled a 15gallon reservoir of full strength nutes and pumped the solution into the bucket as always. Next day my largest plant is dying and the other two are fine, looks like lockout. Flushed for a day and then added nutes, no improvement.. Orange pistils are appearing pretty fast on it too as if it's trying to ripen but not grow. My heart is broken😰 UPDATE: Realized I was an idiot and didn't plug up the holes I drilled into the top of the buckets (I stick a hose in there to fill them up) and the roots were exposed to light.

N deficiency I think. I just went into bloom today. My next soup will be much more loaded with nutrients to counter the deficiency. Otherwise the plants grow well, stretch and flowering begins.

Wow, 50 cm now!! Removed 2 leaves and some micro buds. Da buds are bulking up. Won't be a big yielder, i hope to get out 10g ahaha Had to switch to 12/12, because she is in my Main tent were a photoperiodic strain was sent to flower. Overall happy!

So this is how the ladies are looking at the end of Week 2 from Seed. Successful Germination, 1st 2 weeks completed and now time for transplanting. I have added a video with better explanation. Happy Growing guys, any questions just ask away. 👍🏾🌱💚😎

Hello growers Been battling winter temperatures this week so moved this girl into the warmer tent. Got as cold as 16° inside the tent during the day (outside was 6-7°) for the past week. Growth might have been stunted a little bit but did my best to keep temps up without having to install heaters inside the tent. She now has a purple light to finish off her flowering run. Edit: added two of the 200w lego panels to help fight the cold weather. See you next year 😉

Oct 22 - start of week 4 and things are progressing well but slow. She’s poken out her 4th node now so we’ll be pinchn er soon. Nutrient regimen is aggressive - so far no plain water breaks from feedings and it’s freakn me out a little. She seems to like it though and the drainage on the coco/purlite is crazy good. should be easy enough to rectify any lockout issues if they come up. Thanks again for taking a look and happy growing!👍 Oct 24 update - she’s really come along the past few days and while her stem is still real thin, she’s managed to sneak the entire 4th node past me unnoticed. We FIMMED today. No actual cutting just a modified pinch/crush only technique that leaves all new growth in place. Now we’ll let er recover and see how she turns out. 🤞🤞🤞I’ve been running a nute feed every single watering (every other day) since start and decided it was time for a plain ph’d maintenance rinse. No reason, just preventative to rinse out minerals. Thanks for checkn er out👊. Oct 26 update - 2 days post fim and her pinched node isn’t looking any better. YOU can definitely tell by the photos and new growth that it’s diverted it’s energy to bushing out. Back on the nutes and still lookn good - love the coco. THANKS for tuning in y’all!👊 Oct 28 update - she looks as though she’s coming back around after the pinch. We’ll see what develops - definitely some weird new growth coming up so it appears to have worked👌😎👍! Background This one is gonna be fimmed out and defo’d as a comparative to its manifolded kush sister. They’ll spend a first week or so under a cfl assembly while the last harvest dries out in the cabinet. This is our 2nd grow of an NL strain and this one should be typical of NL in terms of resilience. That said, she’s a former cup winner so we’re hopeful for supreme quality this time around. 👍 Gonna jack up the nute shed. and supplements heavy throughout the grow in the hopes of really testing the limits of my grow space (approx. 2sq/ft). With the coco medium we’re hoping for that 20% bump in yield as well. THANKS for check'n er out