extremely fresh and tasty actually, bud rot is something that is pretty unavoidable when you live across the freeway from the beach evening and morning fogs pretty much every daily at this point.
when marijuana first goes into flowering they usually stretch a good amount(sometimes doubling in size over the first week or two of flowering) I usually give them veg and flowering nutes the first week or two of flowering then switch to just bloom nutes.
could be worms dude open up the nasty ass brown buds and look for eggs and shit you will a lot of time find the little bastards hiding in those nasty brown nugs too. (could be bud rot too I've never had it but I have had worms and that looks like the damage they cause.) but if it is worms get BT...
for sure, nothing against growing in pots I've seen beasts grow in pots and it gives u the freedom to move the plant if necessary, but the ruiner is crazy.
the roots from a 2 gallon container will never compare to the ground where they can grow as big as they have soil the roots can penetrate you will never get a 15 foot plant from a 2 gallon container no matter how much nutes and tlc you give the plant but if you dig a huge fucking hole...
your crazy if you think a plant in a 2 gallon container can do as well as a plant in the ground you would be watering that shit twice a day at some point the ground is always better if its available.
Use molasses it is cheap and effective feeds your soil and makes the plant happy helps a lot during flowering but I feed during veg too, get blackstrap molasses unsulphured and feed at 1 tablespoon per gallon(some people use 2 but I don't think it's necessary) I usually use it every other...
New pics couple of the potted plants are doing pretty bad I'm not expecting much from them, the other three in pots don't look very green because I assume they are rootbound at this point but they got nice looking buds on them. All the ones in the ground are still thriving just starting giving...