Royal Automatic is a feminised’auto flowering’ variety from Royal Queen Seeds, and this report covers the staggeringly fast grow/ bloom period of this amazing strain. Four Royal Auto’ seeds were put in’Root Riot’ blocks and placed in the 1m x 1m x 2.1/2m high veg’ area which had just had some new shiny Mylar put on the walls....

The seeds were sown into jiffy7 peat pellets and put into a propagator under a 125w environlite. Once sprouted I do not like feminized seeds too much, because I get bigger yield from regular strain, but in the past me and my homiez had already grown some strains from Sweet Seeds, all with a top quality smoke with strong and long lasting effects. So I started...

x3 seeds were sown from a packet of Royal Queen Royal Automatic into a damp tray of coco fibre in the glasshouse at 25c. Once hatched the seedlings were thinned to the healthi­est plant. After 7 days the plant was transplanted into a large wide shallow plant pot filled with coco fibre and Bio Biz All-mix. The plant was not fed any nutrients for the first 3...

Critical is an Indica-dominant strain from the garden of Royal Queen Seeds. Her Sativa-influences are not un-noticeable in this weed’s high. But all the advantages of her Indica back­ground are allowed to shine through in the short growth- and explosive bloom phase of this variety. Critical from Royal Queen Seeds comes from feminised seeds, so they are...

Here we are with the first article of a new series with official Royal Queen Seeds photographer Kike L. Over the next few issues, we will continue this series of detailed photographs looking at other varieties. To carry out the tests, we organised an area as similar as possible to a modest-sized self-grow, with a view to ending up with a result that could be...

Once upon a time there was a wise old man who, through trial and error, discovered that in order to grow good fat, sticky, smelly, potent buds you needed several things, and of all these things, probably the most important was patience. This wise old fellah would tell you that on average, to get a reasonable crop of reasonable strength, reasonably tasty bud,...