I have three outdoor clones growing, the clones were given to me by a friend, I am unsure of the strain. I'm gonna lay down the facts to the best of my ability..

They were doing relatively fine for the most part over the past few weeks, growing outwards of a steady .5 - 1.5 or less inches per day (I live in a more cooler region in America, idk if that means anything). They had a healthy mid-dark green color and were branching out wildly. They all had at least 6-7 or more branches that were growing in naturally. I'd say they were doin' mighty sexy up until this point.

They are all limited to a pot (the pots may be a tad small, the diameter of the pots are between 10-20" each have their own size), however each pot is held in firmly into the ground since I buried all of the pots into the ground (they are hidden). I'd say each pot plant is about at least one to one and a half months old now, and is no bigger than 15-20" going upwards and no bigger than that same amount going outwards. About four weeks ago I seen the first signs of the sex (?), little white hairs growing in between leaf stocks (?), and a few of what appears to be super mini buds, smaller than a pea (They look as if they are coated with trichomes). (And they haven't grown at all yet either).

But yeah, I go to check on them today and suddenly all my leaves are like "baby small". Probably no more than 3 inches all around. Before all my leaves were prospering and were probably the size of my hand or a bit smaller (4-6"?). Not to mention the green of my leaves are about 5-6 x shades lighter. They aren't yellow or dead looking, but they are definitely a very light green. They seem healthy, but I have no clue as to why they would do this.

Also some of my branches seemed like they were thinning out and wearing away (towards the base of the main stem), so I just plucked them off. I don't know if that'll help, but I thought I heard somewhere before that that will make the growth concentrate more on the other branches.

I'm not sure what's in the soil either, but I'm pretty sure all I have is regular potting soil mixed in with perlite to retain (?) water. I would like to believe it's Nute-free.

We've been having a constant flow of stormy and rainy weather separated by a few days of sun every now and then, however they never reacted like this before on my periodic 4-9 day check ups.

Anyway, can anybody enlighten me? If you need anymore facts please feel free to lemme know.

Thanks in advance.


EDIT: Gonna attempt to get some decent photo's through my phone onto the internet (prob not to smart but oh well lol) ..



BEFORE:

I know my hand ain't here for scale in this pic but that was actually smaller than my average leaf and I'd say this is about 2X bigger than the after pic.





AFTER (now):