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

Semana número tres y todas van perfecto en su crecimiento , con su climatización controlada . Una vez por semana aplicó preventivo de plagas . Y mantengo áreas desinfectadas . Potencia . 250 w por mt2 .

Hallo zusammen 🤙. Sie wächst sehr schön und macht keine Umstände.

Beginning of week.. I raised the lights a little.. They are at 50% power at 18" (roughly) from the plants. The ladies are getting from 420 to 500 PPFD. Went ahead and fed them some extra FloraMicro this week.. I'm guessing they are just very hungry girls.. And I'm thinking the pH in the rootzone issue is not clearing up at all.. BUT.. It seems like no matter what pH I water them with.. The runoff ALWAYS comes out at 5.8 or 5.9 with the Mandarin Cookies and 5.8 or 5.7 with the ETHOS Cookies.. So if you want to reuse your coco coir.. Make sure to remove ALL the roots. The girls dont look too bad at all.. And that's why I'm guessing they just needed more nutes in the mix.. We shall see how this week goes! Mid week.. They are looking alot better! Mandarin Cookies is exploding woth growth.. ETHOS Cookies is growing slow but she is growing for sure.. I think I may need to remove a node or 2 on the ETHOS Cookies.. I could just leave it.. But the very top 2 are covering alot of tops.. I could make some clones from it.. Hmm.. All-in-all.. I'm happy with how these girls are growing for now tho.. This rootzone issue isnt going away.. But I think I found a way to make it work out.. I've been watering a little differently.. Here is a bit of an example: Day 1: Feed at 6.5 Day 3: Water at 6.4 Day 5: Feed at 6.3 Day 7: Water at 6.2 Day 9: Feed at 6.5 Day 11: Water at 6.4 Day 13: Feed at 6.3 Day 15: Water at 6.2 Etc... The runoff is staying above 5.5 each time.. But as I lower the pH, the runoff pH lowers as well (obviously).. So I think watering this way has helped keep these gorgeous ladies happy.. And theyare also very hungry.. I may have to start watering one plant every other day.. Water plant 1 tomo.. Water plant 2 the next day.. Then plant 1 the next day and then plant 2 the next day etc... 1 reason I want to start doing it that way is because I think the ETHOS Cookies isn't needing as much nutes as the Mandarin Cookies.. But they are looking great. Very happy and so are they! The heat has been insane lately.. So at the hottest part of the day I try to just turn the light down to 25% for 4 hours or so.. I hate having to do that.. But it's all I can do for now.. Or maybe change the light/dark hours.. Blah.. Whatever, they are happy! End of week.. I supercropped 2 branches.. They pretty much healed up and are already back to normal.. Like it didnt bring them down any lower at all lol.. It straightened back up and its as if nothing happened.. Just a big ass (MOOSE) knuckle lol.. But I stopped using the Kushie Kush and was just using the normal Gen Hydro FloraBloom in the mix. Will be upping the FloraGro next week! Wow.. Such hungry ladies! It's been so long since I've grown a bigger photo period.. I forgot how much they can take!.. On to the next!...

Stäben kommen gut für Outdoor, der Kollege macht sein Ding 😅 Botaniker was soll man sagen hahaha

Week 5 and its getting frosty❄️✌️

I cut another part of the girls, and the total is even greater than the first part! We wait another week for the final sums, but right now the flavor is unique.

Full blood moon harvest 9 day dry @ 58-63RH 60-65F | Glass Jar Cure with inert gas Shadow realm potency, Taste just like apple cider Fast finisher, stays small & tight node spacing

Started the final week of nutrients. Then ill be switching to flawless finish and pure water the last week. Saskatoon Berry has been a very pleasant growing experience. Csnt wait for them to fatten up this final 20 days.

I harvested four plants today, putting 884 grams of wet flowers into the dry tent. I am trying to keep the environment as close as possible to 60F / 60% RH, but with the current temperatures, I will be lucky to keep it around 65. I am looking forward to the terpenes moving towards the skunky aromas.

Again, such an amazing experience!!!!! I love this smoke for night, it's definitely helped my insomnia! The taste is out of this world! I pick up more Mazar than the blueberry or thai.

chopped on day 79 (week 11.3) drying now. will post harvest weight after drying

Fire 🔥 she smoked nice. Smooth and got a sexy taste. Overall a easy grown and will try again

Week 4 of flower

Gonna flip the plants at the end of the week. Hoping for all females 😳. We will see shortly. Plants had great growth this last week. Loving the new lights. No more training gonna give a trim up in a couple of days before the flip!!

Day 1 - topped FR1 Day 2 - topped FR2 Day 3 - 2nd topping of FR1 Day 5 watering ,light LST for initial main stems on FR2

Nach einer spannenden Woche und einem großartigen Wochenende auf der Mary Jane in Berlin gibt es endlich wieder ein Update meiner drei Lemon Cherry Cookies. Die Pflanzen entwickeln sich weiterhin hervorragend und haben in den letzten Tagen einen ordentlichen Wachstumsschub hingelegt. Das Low Stress Training zeigt mittlerweile seine Wirkung und die Seitentriebe beginnen kräftig aufzuholen. Aus den einst kleinen Sämlingen entwickeln sich langsam schöne, breite Outdoor-Büsche. Besonders erfreulich ist die gute Vitalität aller drei Pflanzen. Die Blattfarbe bleibt gesund und satt, das neue Wachstum ist kräftig und die Pflanzen zeigen keinerlei Anzeichen von ernsthaftem Stress. Selbst die Dame, die zu Beginn etwas ungewöhnlich gewachsen ist, entwickelt mittlerweile ihren ganz eigenen Charakter und holt hervorragend auf. Durch das LST wird das Licht optimal verteilt und immer mehr zukünftige Blütenstände erhalten direkten Zugang zur Sonne. Genau jetzt beginnt die Phase, in der die Struktur für die kommenden Wochen aufgebaut wird. Die Lemon Cherry Cookies zeigen bisher genau die Eigenschaften, die ich mir von einer starken Outdoor Autoflower wünsche: robust, vital und voller Wachstumskraft. Jetzt freue ich mich auf die nächsten Wochen, denn schon bald dürfte die Vorblüte beginnen und die eigentliche Show kann starten. Vielen Dank fürs Vorbeischauen und bis zum nächsten Update! 💚🍋🍒 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After an exciting week and an amazing weekend at the Mary Jane Expo in Berlin, it's finally time for another update on my three Lemon Cherry Cookies. The plants continue to perform beautifully and have put on some impressive growth over the last few days. The Low Stress Training is clearly paying off, with side branches starting to catch up and creating a much wider structure. What started as small seedlings is slowly turning into a beautiful outdoor canopy. One thing that stands out is the overall vigor of all three plants. Leaf color remains healthy, new growth is strong, and there are no signs of significant stress. Even the plant that started off growing a little differently is now showing plenty of character and catching up nicely. The LST is helping distribute light evenly across the entire plant, allowing more future bud sites to receive direct sunlight. This is exactly the stage where the foundation for a productive flowering period is built. So far, the Lemon Cherry Cookies are showing everything I want from an outdoor autoflower: strength, resilience, and vigorous growth. I'm really looking forward to the next few weeks because pre-flowering should be just around the corner and the real show is about to begin. Thank you for following along and happy growing! 💚🍋🍒🌱

So got my SOG up, the right side was topped and the left side was fim'd on one side. Preparing for flower in a few days.

Normal!!

Great week inside the tent, somewhat uneventful out of it. UKBS 2 and Carl 2 have been growing (mainly carl 2, rip the homie UKBS2) and the plants inside the tent have been flourishing and really sugaring up despite how early they are into flower. Timelapse is here, ta-da! My nute syringe broke, so nutrient measurements are 100% inaccurate and I have no clue what I'm feeding my plants. Fun situation. Updates as the week goes. -5/28/2021 - Outdoor plants are staked out as they're quite tall and my area has a wind issue. Carl 2 is approximately 5 feet tall now, quite the monster. UKBS 2 is still suffering from degeneration, but the rest of the plant looks happy as usual. Broke out the nice camera yet again for some bud shots, gotta be one of my favorite parts of the grow process. -5/30/2021 - Indoor plants are getting quite fat in the bud department. Had to tie many of Carl 1's mains to the roof of the tent with some twine😂 - Should be some real fat goodness once she's ready to come down. Can't wait. -5/31/2021 - Last night fell asleep before closing the tent, lights on in the room. Hopefully nothing too bad as it was only one night.