Wedding Gelato Grow Diary and Strain Review

This grow was an outdoor run with Wedding Gelato from Royal Queen Seeds. The season gave me enough warm, sunny weather to test photoperiod genetics outside properly, though the finish still came with cooler spells and heavy rain.

I started with 6 seeds and wanted to keep the grow practical. Some plants stayed mostly natural, one was topped, and I used pots so I could move the girls around when the weather started acting up later in the season.

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Wedding Gelato (Royal Queen Seeds)

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Starting the Run

Week 1

The run started without any drama. The seeds germinated well, and the young plants looked healthy enough for me to treat this as a normal outdoor start rather than a rescue mission.

At this stage, I was mostly watching how each seedling behaved and trying not to interfere too much. The plan was simple: give them a clean start, let them settle, and then decide later which plants deserved more training.

Week 2

The seedlings kept moving along and started looking more like proper little cannabis plants. Nothing in the first stretch made me think the genetics were weak or difficult.

I was already thinking about the final outdoor space. Wedding Gelato is not a tiny plant on paper, so I didn’t want to crowd them too much once they got past the early stage.

Week 3

By the third week, the plants had enough structure to show some differences. Some were pushing more upward, while others looked a little more balanced from the sides.

I still kept the routine calm. Outdoors, it’s easy to overreact to small changes, but at this point the girls were doing their part.

Week 4

This was the first week where I started shaping the run more deliberately. One of the plants was topped so I could compare it with the rest, which were left with a stronger central stem.

The difference became interesting later. The topped plant started building more side structure, while the untouched ones kept the classic tall Christmas-tree shape. I didn’t want to train every plant the same way because part of the fun was seeing how the strain behaved naturally.

Veg Progress and Training

Week 5-7

During this stretch, the plants were already in 25l (6.6gal) bags and gaining size quickly. The light substrate helped keep the pots manageable, which mattered because I knew I might need to move them later.

By around this point, the plants were roughly 45cm (17.7in), with enough leaf mass that I had to start cleaning them up a little. I did some defoliation, not to make them look pretty, but to keep air moving through the middle.

The stretch was stronger than I expected. That wasn’t a disaster outside, but it did make me think that an indoor run with the same genetics would need more serious training from the start.

Week 8-10

The girls kept gaining height and the differences between the trained and untrained plants became easier to see. The topped one had a wider structure, while the others held onto a bigger central stem with smaller side growth.

There still wasn’t much to fix. I mostly kept the pots watered and watched the plants fill out in the sun. For an outdoor grow, that kind of boring progress is exactly what I like.

Week 11

By week 11, the plants had become much taller and were already above my height. They were also drinking hard, at least 6l (1.6gal) of water per day each, and their appetite was clearly going up.

Yellowing started to show on the lower leaves. I took it as a nitrogen shortage, probably because the fertilizer granules in the substrate weren’t keeping up anymore. From that point, I began adding Algoflash at half the manufacturer’s recommended dose with every watering.

Week 12-13

These girls turned out hungry, but that made sense. They were still stretching and already putting effort into building flower sites, so the demand was not surprising.

I kept feeding and didn’t try to force anything too clever. The plants had the frame they needed by then, and the main job was keeping them from running out of food before flowering properly took over.

The Flip and Early Flower

Week 14

By week 14, the plants looked much fuller. They had that outdoor Christmas-tree shape, only with more volume than I expected when the run started.

The buds were swelling and starting to tighten up. I also began to notice the cannabis smell outside. In open air it wasn’t overwhelming, but I could tell that the same plants in a tent or greenhouse would already be loud enough to need attention.

Week 15

On week 15, it was still obvious that the plants wanted more nutrients. I didn’t like seeing hunger at this stage, so I increased the feeding instead of waiting for the leaves to get worse.

Alongside Algoflash, I added calcium nitrate, potassium, phosphate, magnesium, and gypsum to the water. I had already moved toward mineral feeding and inert-style substrates in my growing, mostly because I find soil harder to control.

The flowers were developing nicely. They were getting more compact, and the plants looked like they were finally turning all that outdoor size into something useful.

Week 16

The buds looked good this week. Pistils were starting to dry and shift toward an orange-brown color, while the flowers themselves had become heavy and well covered in trichomes.

Still, the trichomes were mostly clear. It was tempting to get excited because the plants already looked close from a distance, but the loupe said otherwise. Harvest wasn’t quite there yet.

Week 17

Week 17 brought a real change in weather. The air cooled down because of long rains, and I started moving the pots under cover whenever I could.

That didn’t always work. If rain started while I was away, the plants just stood outside getting wet until evening. The handles on the bags helped a lot, and the light substrate made moving even the big plants possible.

One problem showed up because of that same light substrate. The buds were already heavy, and one plant tried to tip over. A support fixed it, but it was a good reminder that big outdoor pots need balance, not just volume.

Some trichomes had turned milky by then, so I expected harvest to be about a week or two away.

Late Flower and Finish

Week 18-19

The last two weeks were a mix of bright sunny days and heavy rain. That constant contact with water finally caused a few rot spots on the buds.

I didn’t want to gamble with the whole crop, so I harvested urgently on week 19, which was 9 weeks of flowering. Waiting longer might have improved some parts of the plant, but it also would have meant losing more to rot.

Cooler weather added a nice visual touch before the end. Some of the leaves darkened and picked up a purple shade, which looked good even if the weather behind it was not ideal.

Wedding Gelato Yield and Final Thoughts

Harvest and Final Thoughts

After trimming, I weighed the plants before drying. The first plant came in at 992g (35oz), the second at 1360g (48oz), the third at 1020g (36oz), and the fourth at 737g (26oz). There was also a separate bag of popcorn buds weighing another 624g (22oz).

I dried the branches together, so I can’t say exactly how much dry flower came from each individual plant. Averaged out, the run gave me about 1.5kg (3.3lb) of dry buds from five plants, or roughly 300g (10.6oz) per plant.

For my conditions and the amount of training I used, I’m more than happy with that. Royal Queen Seeds lists higher outdoor numbers, but those are under ideal conditions, and this grow had rain pressure near the finish.

The finished effect felt very sativa to me. It lifted my mood, gave me energy, and brought a busy kind of creative headspace for several hours. Near the end, there was a little laziness, but not the sort of couch-lock that shuts the evening down.

The taste and aroma reminded me of a fresh summer fruit cocktail with mint. That was probably my favorite part after the yield, because the profile stayed pleasant instead of turning flat after drying.

Wedding Gelato was simple enough outdoors, and I don’t regret choosing it at all. Indoors, though, I’d train it more aggressively. These plants get tall, and leaving them mostly natural would make canopy control harder than I’d want in a box.

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