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Got my hands on a few new FB strains. Will be running 2, I haven't decided yet which nutes I'm going to run these off. I have Try Pack, jungle juice trio, sensi coco grow/bloom and my sponsored nutes Terra Power that I'm running comparison grow matching nute for nute with AN. To find more about Terra Power read the ANvsTERRAP diary or check them out on led-grower.eu/terra-power/
These will all be started in a 70x70 to run keep up RH in the 60-70 range and when they move into flower or get too big I'll throw them in my 150x150x200 SF tent.
29/4/22 So these 2 seeds where like this yday. And they haven't changed. 1 is actually expanding so both tap roots must be trapped. What are the odds of this happening in a group of 8 seeds and the very same 2 are like this. The she'll cracked and you can see the tap root. So, I'm rolling the ball and both are have been planted. There's no point in using the 3rd seed it looks like these seeds were exposed to high temps or came from a plant with bad genes. FB expect a lot of complaints about this batch of strawberry gorilla.
Okay, so, we are giving it another go. I have 1 seed left. So let's go and get this done if this goes the exact same way it's gonna be all the seeds of that plant. These Are the only 2 that failed.
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29/4 So, after germ both seeds and gave them another 24hrs after seeing there shells had just cracked and you could see the tap root but it never broke out. On 1 the she'll was actually been pushed open and nearly split. So had to plant both and hope they push out and down/up.
I'm using the terra power 3 nutrient compliment. 1 is La Calavera aka voodoo juice and the other 2 are improved upon versions of AN. To see the chart the compare their improved upon nutes check them out on led-grower.eu/terra-power/.
Let's wait and see if they pop. I have the light on a 20/4 I know they really don't need light until they sprout, but as 1s were started yday I'm putting on the light now it won't hurt these as they are below the Substrate but I'm expecting the others to show up soon so I need the light to be on and ready for them. It's set at 65% And 45cm from the base of the substrate.
1/5/22 So, I placed these in with very little expectation, and I was right to be that way. Both seeds looked trapped they cracked but no tap root would flick out. So I'll go in 24hrs time if they aren't up and crack 'em open or try take the tap root out so it can grow down and push the husk up. If I can't I'll fully remove and bury it the the top is a few mm from the top and the tap root will go down as far as I can place it. Looks like I'll have to do this with both strawberry gorilla. I'm waiting for FB to get back to me. But been it's a bank holiday, I think they won't make it to be there for their surgery.
So went in. Had to. They were trapped in the shells. Lil cute fan leafs all tucked up still forming stuck to the head and tap root. Got 1 in decently. 1 of them the tap root snapped off by about 1/3 by just picking it up. Replanted as best I could on both. Wasn't expecting to have to do this. Happened on both seeds. Of the same strain. Lets see if they come up in 2 days. If not I'll scrap em.
Both seeds fully came about but in their own shells. They have tiny lil flower heads that would never transfer enough energy. She seed pushed her but she got caught. They opened up inside the grow and both got stuck on the bend. I've opened them up. Dropped them into the soil opened their flower heads best I could and poured a like mix of nutrients. But I highly doubt this are gonna pop. They used up their energy, (life) but hey, the pots are staying empty. So I'm trying it, But I have a seed germinating already. SG has made a fool of me and it's the seeds and 2 from the same pack with 1 left. So, yeah. I'm not wasting anymore time on Strawberry Gorilla folks. Ganja runtz coco will be coming up in instead. After all, they did send 3 seeds. Only seems right theres should be first in line as a back up.
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6/5/22 Restart is in the ground. Germinated and all. Very poxy slowly. I'm having really bad luck this time with seeds just a 66% success ratio. 2 Dutch passion seeds in the paper towel 15hrs now, and nothing yet. Grrrr what the hell am I doing wrong.
7/5/22 Can see the seed pushing up. I'd say by tomorrow she'll fully pop. Same goes for Ganja Runtz and CBD CA. Hoping she is able to follow through as this is my only seed of this strain left, so if she dies, or gets browning of the stem or anything like that, bye bye SG. I'm dying to try it though. Let's see.
9/5/22 Explosive growth. Can see this one being a true auto. No doubt she'll be in your guide window harvest range of 9-11wks. Have some really interesting methods and a whole host of new gear, tent/lights/co2/co2 ppm reader/grow room is 100% a sealed environment/AC temp controlled intake 800m3 6 inch intake fan/20L dehuimifier. I'm set up to knock this round out of the park, and if I fuck it up. Or don't get the desired results this time. Well there'll be some1 who'll be getting a hell of deal on all my gear. And I'll be going back to my 70x70 and keeping it simple.
11_5_22 After a 2 day soft flush, I've upped the nutrient terra Power and all nutrient mixes up and plants are starting to show light defs. Nothing that's going to throw them into a stall or anything, and I don't want to overfeed neither. PPM I'm been careful with. 980 5.9 PH. 1020 ADVN 6.3ph 950 5.7ph jungle juice and terra power
13/5/22 Well, another lady lying on its side. I must have put the soil in too loose. As it keeps caving in and this is the 4th plant that once the roots push through the soil or waterings are collapsing the soil structure and they keep falling over. Think I need to add more coco+perlite.
Am going to leave her for 2/3 more days then going to transplant it.
Thanks for reading.
gottagrowsometime
Welcome to my strawberry gorilla diary. Be sure to drop a like so I can visit your grows.
16/5/22 Wk 2 VD8. Uppotted her and moved into new tent. Wasn't root bound. So, 1 wk in a 1.7L and then uppot. I had to wait, as I was waiting on my new tent and then it took me 2 days to set up everything. Hopefully there won't be much shock as I know the rest will go into shock as I had to break up the soil in all the pots as they were all root bound. Gave all 2ml/L of La Calavera (voodoo juice), poured 200ml into the hole then put in her into and folded soil over and poured another 200ml on top of that. Have lowered the light to 50% for 12hrs as you don't wanna put too much strain on them if they have shock.
17/5/22 Explosive growth the last 24hrs.
18/5/22 Figuring out how VPD works. You could read for hours about this stuff and still not dial it in for years.
But here's the basics. VPD 0.4-0.8 kpa for early seedling. So under or around 23c and around 50-60 RH. atm my VPD is 1.05kpa and for most of my plants the optimal range is .8-1.1 kpa. Temp is 80 F 25C and RH is 70%. To find the perfect VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit)check out optimal ranges of VPD for growing stages, also your strain should have the optimal VPD. I don't have an infrared temp to check the LVPD (Leaf Vapor Pressure Deficit) that's a whole other ball game.
This plant was also it the wrong range but nearly all my grows are coming into this range and I'm going to try and hold it for as long as I can before I have to make 2 different environments in my tent inside a tent
20/5/22 Great growth the last 24 hrs. Have upped the EC to fall in range with the other plants
21_5_22 Fed today, was just water with 2ml/L of biobizz calmag with fire yields 2ml/L mix
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gottagrowsometime
Welcome to my strawberry gorilla diary. Be sure to drop a like, comment or follow so I can visit your grows.
Week 3 VD15.. 24/5/22 Great growth far. Going to start applying LST, and I'll either top or FlMing her. Yet to be decided.
25/5 Flming'ed and done a bit of defoliation.
30/5/22 Doing ok. Short in size. Hoping she'll put on a few inches this week.
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VD22 She's staying small. Hopefully she'll put on a good few inches this week. She's healthy though but Fliming'in autos is a waste of time. There's not enough veg time. I'm going to leave it though.
VD27 Nice shape to her. She's small. 33cm. The Fliming has worked well. 4 nice nodes have popped up nice and close. And 4 underneath. Should make for a nice top cola and has a decent short bushy structure. She's very close to pre-flowering. Maybe even there.
9/6 I've been very lazy and just let her grow. Very little in the way of LST, practically none. But she has grown into a lovely little shape. You can see the Flming, glad I did it. For an auto I was worried there wouldn't be enough veg time. Idk if it's meant to look this way. But I can see 4 nodes coming off the top and 4 below it.
Week 5. Flowering day 1. Has been flowering maybe a day or 2 more. But hey. Really nice growth. Lovely little plant. Haven't done much in the way of LST, just Flming'ed and fed and was careful with this one as she's my only strawberry gorilla. Pity I wasn't as careful with the rest of my girls, but this was soil. I forgot how easy it is to burn plants than using just coco. Just ever so lightly overfeeding fucus up everything if you don't catch it early enough. This was the case with my Gorilla Zkittlez For AN which looks in a sorry state.
11/6/22 Tried my hand at lollipopping, not a bad job. Soon she'll be under a P1000 with my SF1000 in-between my 2 P1000.
Week 6. Wish I would of done more LST and make a better canopy. I might try pull the sides out a little, have to be very careful not to break the nodes. Will pull out lightly and do it a bit more every few days.
Put on 5cm so far. The fliming'ed has really stopped any stretch in its tracks. Or maybe it's just the temp.
27/6 So, finally I got round to doing a bit of late LST to this girl. As it would have kinda defeated lollipopping her and making for a good top canopy and not done some LST to open up that canopy to get the best bud quality I can.
Week 7. 1/7 Haven't had chance to update here in a few days relating to this diary.
There hasn't been much in the way of things I've done, just adjusted LST ties where needed. But she is taking to pre flower well. Thanks to Flimg she is staying short and not stretching at all. Now, I can't say that's the whole reason. But I'd say if I hadn't of done it she would of done some serious stretching. She hasn't thankfully.
Thankfully the temp has dropped to 28C. It's a little high. But OK.
4/7 okay so yday we got a heatwave and it isn't leaving anytime soon. So temps are just getting too high. I now have cool air on tap but it's having a hard time still getting the temp down. Went to 35c yday and I just couldn't wait any longer had to set up my AC (not proper AC, hillbilly AC) so my attic is attached to many many other houses and there is little gaps big enough that makes a very swift draft and that and constantly dark the air is normally at 16-18c jumped to 22c yday but I've had to adjust my lights to 4-2. And when my 300watt comes on my 3x100watts go off and come on during the night the same time when it's coolest and I've my 800m3 turning on at full power and it's all in the attic so I can't even hear it. I actually woke up and was very cold, checked the temp in my room and checked the memory and came down from 31c to 26c with all lights on. Much better, especially for my plants coming into late flowering.
Week 8. FD21 D51. Plant is doing well. Has stopped growing in height. So looks like she's set at 60cm. Good few weeks to go in flower on this one. She's leaving pre flower and stacking on frost.
This is the 1 of them strains that you can actually smell strawberries off her really early on. She is so pungent and sticky. Can't wait to see what colors she throws out
11/7;Finally she is starting to throw off some terps. Wonder will she give off any red. So, pre flower ended afew days ago and in the next week or so I'll know how big the buds will be.
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Week 10..fd 36 in the ground 66 days. She's nearly done. Am going to throw her on triton and she can I push her some. She won't get any fatter but hoping the THC will blow me away. Still waiting for that elusive A grade bud. Hoping this is it as I pushed for Quality with this girl. Done heavy lollipopping and stripping and she's doing well.
Week 11, D71 Flower Day 41. She's super frosty. And very sticky and sticky. Smells of fresh cut strawberries and a light musky sweet earthy smell. Not a whole lot of bud, but what's there is tops by the looks of it. I'm hoping this is going to be the A grade bud I've been looking for.
Plant has been thrown into soft flush. Been given terra powers finisher. 1ml/L 150 ppm and ph + adjusted to 6.7.
Should of just let it grow normal. Lessons learnt.
But overall I'm very happy with the results, all a bit lacking but frosty and smells stawlishes.
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Thanks to everyone who followed and commented. It's been a fun grow. Little bit of light nutrient burn other than that, I've had 0 problems. Not 1 def, standing tall since she's in the ground. Even though she wasn't let grow o'natural I've seen what I can get, 1 main top cola and smaller colas on the side instead of 50-70cm small plants. Hopefully I'll get 50-70cm nodes with a big ass frosty cola on my next run, and then I'll be able to say for sure, that topping isn't the way to go with autos. As I've topped every single 1 I've grown and the tallest plant I could get was 90cm. Either it's the topping or not grown to its peak performance.
HARVEST DAY. She's frosty. I've seen more frosty SG but I'm happy with this with how I crippled her growth. But in stunning her height I do think I've made for some A grade Bud up top. There is some airy bud at the very end. But she's the most potent FB have, so I'm expecting 🔥.
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UPDATE!!! 7 days into harvest.. she's still drying, at 61rh 20.5c temp. but I've been able to have a taste. And I'm delighted to say. Finally, the day has come. A grade BUD guys. I'll be reviewing differently now, no more handing out 10☆ just because I get stoned and it tastes nice and a good strain to grow, the bench mark has been raised a lot, I thought my skills were lacking, but this grow was done no different, yes, methods were different but this strain is set apart from all the others. She has a multiple layer of berries scent and smokes lovely. Won't go too much into the details as she is a bit wet still so had a small plant taste, can get a taste of pine and a tropical taste with other fruits other than gasey strawberries and other berries also. She really is top notch guys. Best of Fastbuds yet, but I'm only on strain no 7, 80 more to go. But, Strawberry Gorrila has taken 1st, followed by Gorilla Zkittlez, then kosher cake takes 3rd. I've another 15 strains of fastbuds to try on hand, but this is going to be hard to beat. Its so good. I'm stuck to my sofa and my eye lids are dropping after a 1 skin joint, (I don't use tobacco, so about .8- 1 gram in joint) i don't feel hungry, I just waxed, and relaxed, omg, I'm getting more wasted as I write. Love, love, love this strain. Going to get 15seeds of this lady and do a scrog
HARVEST DAY!
Buds are super dense and frosty, for I made for a top canopy, I tried Flming, I had a feeling it would stun her some but I was hoping there would be some more top growth from the top and they'll pop up a few CM and make 4 nodes sticking up to make for 1 superbud. Didn't happen how I wanted, think I'll try it on a photo as you can control how high they'll grow before the flip. But what I did make was a nice frosty Xmas Tree that I lollipopped. LP has been my friend this round. Happy overall with the quality of the bud. The little that's there. I grew nice, strong, smelly, frosty and was no trouble, so no complaints.
She grew fast, was no trouble. Vegged out around 30 days. Pre flower there wasn't much of a stretch because of the Flming. What was meant to happen was she was meant to stop cold in her tracks growing in height, and she was meant to throw out 4 nodes on top, (tis what happens when you Flming) i knew this wouldn't happen but I was hoping for 1 big superbud. But for that, the nodes needed to grow a few CM, especially the 2 end ones and they were meant to grow some and form a nice big bud on top. But I got a funny shaped unformed total bud. Its okay, it's frosty and she grew no issues, took everything like a champ, a bit of nutrient burn, but, I've come to take that with synthetic nutrients.
Had a real easy time with this girl. Pity only 1 out of 3 seeds popped. Well, they popped but failed to throw out any leafs and just died.
But for what I did get, I'm super happy with the results. Think she's my best looking grow so far. In the pic its 17g and I smoked more than that, how I know is cause all I had left was the top and I smoked more than half of the nodes while it was drying. She's my favourite so far from FB.
Cant wait for your new diaries im following all to see the comparison but also the new strains too you got the full line up sponsors you on your A game
@Percy, thanks my friend. Yeah, i love the purple strains too. Well I've never grown them but love them. I'm just hoping I can some how figure out how to drop the temp by 8c or so when they rest to bring out her purple. If not it'll just be a boring green grow. And purple will show up on some bud nearing the end. I want the purple to pop in the leafs early on.
Looking forward to having 8 different types of smoke to go through, don't get me wrong I love zkittlez and TDA but it's like ordering take away and getting the same thing all the time. It's nice but predictable if u get me. I'm putting a lot of trust in FB. Hope I can do them justice. Will cost a small fortune running 4-500watts + 300 for the dehuimifier and another 150 for intake fans, fans and air purifier. Oh and the DWC pots but they use nothing. It's gonna add up quickly. Like for the 130 days I had my 100 watt on that alone cost 120euro. So looking at around 1-1500e for the 2.5-3 months it'll take me for these maybe more.
Good luck bro I'm running the same man gna add them to diary's tonight so drop by later if ya like bro. Can't wait to see what you dp with these ladies
@gottagrowsometime,yeh bro I get you like my cola was stubby indica leaning big fat leaves and now its a fucking square hedge. I top mine above the third then remove the bottom nodes so I'm left with 4 arms and them 4 do the damage like last them out and bouy do they fly just got a mars sp3000 gna throw it in with the spider farmer do you know if there any good ?
@BATMAN_GROWS,
Yeah sure thing bro. Be nice to see yours. Am going to top her above the 5th and LST her like my others nothing fancy. She leans more on the indica side so she looks more small and busher to me, she's the smallest atm but you know FB she might be the biggest next week.
@gottagrowsometime, yeh I noticed that mine is actually in its third week just topped ger the other day and she's spreading nicely and my cola is a absolute Bush at the moment I'll update them all this weekend so you can check them out for me
Nice and healthy mate kudos to you well done feel free to have a look at my afghan kush grow it was great.
Also check out my brother @Topicannibis_Todd he is a mad man and us rocking a new nutrient brand called Nutri NPK seems to be the shit.
I will follow you to watch your progress bro keep doing what your doing.
Just started a gorilla cookies grow myself its amazing how fast they grow 😎😎😎
As always, mate, i love to watch your evolution and your grow skills are great and i love to watch my grower brothers "ladies" and it is a pleasure to talk about the growing issues and sometimes when i see things that baffle me,.i like always to ask and wonder if everything is going smoothly. Early this afternoon i was checking your late grows and i saw this Strawberry kind of yellowish and i asked you about the pheno 'cause i have a seed of this strain and the color on the photo confused me. Sometimes and some phenos as you should know are very light green tending sometimes to Yellow almost. I have an outdoor "banana something" photoperiodic of Sensi Seeds, about five years ago and even on yearly Spring and not so hot weather in Southern Portugal where i live (cause during summer the Outdoor grows of some Indicas here, with the very hot temperature and the high humidity, the leaves turn almost "white" - the clearest green i ever noticed- that particular "banana whatever" (i can recall the name right now) grow as i told you became almost ambar yellow/light greenish - the most pale green that i remember on One of my grows and that was the pheno and genetics of that strain that lendo it that very "ill like" color. I recall that the weed of that strain was very merry smilling stuff with very short flowers but lots of them...the yeld was something absurd -around almost a kilo and the grow was a bloody "tree" with almost 2 meters high- but i will always remeber that pale color. About the policeman subject that come to my block to live a month ago, my season this year is getting rush each day. I split with my ex wife in February, so i have to move along from the house where i lived on last 20 years and where i have a perfect hidden garden where i planted the best outdoor grows ever during these almost two decades- after that i have to move to a flat on a block that have a interior balcony and even with the lack of direct sun (i have passed from 6 hours or more of direct sun on the old house to not more than 2 and half hours at maximum on this new house backyard and my 'bad grinch" not stopped at this change...One of my new neighboors on a block beside me, told me that he knows a bloody policeman on the city station that he knows was going to move just to the first floor Over my backyard. Bloody bad luck, but luckly my friend warned me previous to the "cop" move along and i avoided a huge problem... So on a rush i mandatorly have to buy a grow tent and buy a LED set and converted me to the "indoor religion" with a great deal of sorrow of me, that always love to grow my photoperiodic outdoor grows. In meantime, i have a Northern Light Blue, a photo that i wonder from the start that was an autoflower (a Dark Purple Strain), cause a planted two seeds from the Delicious Seeds spaniards and one of the seeds didn't get germinated and i only noticed that with 6 weeks and no pistils whatsoever that was the photoperiodic Northern Lights Blue that succeded and with my moving to the new house, the first "cut" was to change from a direct sun cycle of 7 hours to a not more than 3 hours exposure, so problems on the Run..after 3 weeks the policeman move to the block and more problems, and change with 11 weeks from a outdoor grow to a indoor grow (i never read something like this)...bloody stress to my pior and unlucky grow, after i moved inside some white flies, trips and catterpillars that were controled outdoor, became a "wild plague situation" indoor (due to the constant conditions of temperature and RH on the growing tent), so a fucking hard battle with neem oil, neetle tea watering solution and even some watering sulphur to get a grip on the dread situation of plagues and after that, i decided to rush the flowering due to the grow size turning a 18/6 cycle to 12/12 cycle and the "heroic grow start ten days ago to get yellow spots on the guide leafs (elder and larger ones), luckily the newer ones that spotted and grow in the last week are showing healthy conditions and the grow is starting some signs of recovery, but the flowering is still very feeble and slow even with PK 13 14 fertilizer use and a good PH rate on the soil...so no matter what is going to happen on the closest future of this grow is still unknown but probably things couldn't get worst that has happened since the grow start its seedling on early February, and if i get some short yeld over this "mess", it will be a history to tell to my greatchildren if i ever have some.
Please check my diaries and comment my evolution, 'cause the reviews of our grower brothers as you know made us feel great. A big hugh for you and thanks for noticing my grows and the evolution on them.
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@TommyBVRSA75, hey bro. Ye, it's nice to have some1 to bounce ideas off. Wow that's some yield. Sadly I can't grow outdoors. Our summer's hit 25 tops and at night drops as low as 10c so no even point trying to grow here.
Wow, pests like that indoors. Thankfully I've only been hit with the odd bug here and there and billions of tiny lil things in my soil. They start ed forming in there 10s of 1000s on top of the run-off from my coco grow as I used soil run off and contaminated the coco and they blew up. It's summer here so I'm guessing when I hit into flowering I'll have pests upon pests. Have all my gear I need so I'm prepared. Let's c though.
Sure brother I'll drop by and hopefully pick up a few things. Thanks for commenting.
Hermano, veo a este grow y no se si por las luces en la foto ó por el própio fenotipo del strain algo amarillento...le para algo??? Estás teniendo algun problema en tu vegetativo?? Ó solamente estoy imaginandome cosas. Como siempre un abrazo grower para ti y como siempre fijandome en tus grows y tus excelentes evoluciones...Dios Jah en tu camino, plantando lá semilla de la información, de la concordia y paz entre Hombres!
@TommyBVRSA75,
The yellowish thing bro is a bug catcher lol..
Thanks for your thoughts though. If only there was more ppl like you to stop and say what they think and actually help ppl instead of writing great grow when there's other things that should be said to help. You are talking about that right? It's in the new pic Also. Is that what you are talking about brother???? I just had another look at her and she looks fine and healthy
Noooo keep pushing on you got this I had a nightmare with germination at the start of the year but just popped new ones and 7/9 straight through just one of those things as frustrating as it is
Looking forward to following this grow keep growing may the ganja gods bless our babies 🙏💜💚💜
@Kush_queen, Yeah, it's just weird. I was hoping to do much better and well, I've been plagued with lifeless seeds. 3/4 CBD CA failed to even put out a tap root.
But explosive growth coming out of this lil baby.
Thanks for dropping by 🥂
@JungleGym, variety is the choice of life after all.
I got tired quick of smoking zkittlez so this time I want a bit of choice for my bud for the next few months. I don't sell it so it'll be all mine 😋
Hey there,
Thanks a bunch for growing our genetics, and for sharing this diary with us :)
We hope that it was a nice experience, and that you enjoy the harvest!
Have a good one
gottagrowsometime
