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After soaking the seeds in water for 24hrs, all tap roots had just broken through the seeds. I then planted them into 37L Fabric Geopots.
(One of the seeds had two tiny seedlings and they fell out of the seed when I was getting the seeds out of the water. I planted both of them to see if they would survive.)
I watered in the seeds and placed plastic humidity domes over them.
After a few days they had all sprouted!
After they had sprouted I removed the plastic humidity domes and have just been watered when required.
(The seedling that was one of the two tiny ones from the same seed is a bit runty and I may cull it to veg out three photoperiods.)
Started to apply extra goodies once a week to the watering schedule this week!
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate 100ml to 10L of water
Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar & Kelp 50ml to 10L of water
Root Roids 5-10 scoops to 10L of water
Tribus 5-10ml to 10L of water
Also applied a top dressing to the plants of
1 cup of Dr Greenthumbs Go & Grow
1 cup of Dr Greenthumbs Bud & Bloom
2 cups of Ocean Grown - Fish & Urchin Compost
1/3 cup of Dr Greenthumbs Root Roids Granular
1/3 cup of Ocean Grown - Cal Mag
2 cups of Dr Greenthumbs Insect Frass.
By the end of the week I decided to cull the runt before I started LST Training next week.
This week I defoliated the plants and started LST Training on them.
At the end of the week applied a booster feed of
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate 100ml to 10L of water
Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar & Kelp 50ml to 10L of water
Root Roids 5-10 scoops to 10L of water
Tribus 5-10ml to 10L of water
The plants have responded great to the LST Training and the extra goodies from last week.
After culling the runt I have started the next grows seeds to veg out next to the Auto flowers.
Applied another top dressing, added Organic Gardening Solutions Cover Crop Mix seeds to the pots and watered them in with a booster feed.
Normal water is always filtered and PH to 6.5, booster feed are once a week.
Booster Feed
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate 100ml to 10L of water
Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar & Kelp 50ml to 10L of water
Dr Greenthumbs Root Roids 5-10 scoops to 10L of water
Tribus 5-10ml to 10L of water
Top dressing
1 cup of Dr Greenthumbs Go & Grow
2 cups of Dr Greenthumbs Bud & Bloom
2 cups of Ocean Grown - Fish & Urchin Compost
2 cups of Dr Greenthumbs 4+1 Compost Blend
1/3 cup of Dr Greenthumbs Root Roids granular
1/3 cup of Ocean Grown - Cal Mag
2 cups of Dr Greenthumbs Insect Frass.
28/2 update - After the girls bounce back from the LST training from last week, they now look like they have started flowering. I defoliated, Lollipopped and adjusted the LST ties.
1/3 - Watered the plants with 3.5L each of filtered water PH 6.5, took a few photos of the flowers starting to develop.
2/3 - lowered light from 60cm to 30cm and adjusted the two fans in the tent.
4/3 - watered with a booster feed each plant with about 3.3L.
Booster Feed mixed with 10L of filtered PH6.5 water.
Booster feed
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate 100ml
Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar & Kelp 50ml
Dr Greenthumbs Fruit Roids 10 scoops
Tribus 10ml
The two plants at the back are growing almost identical and further into flower.
The third plant is still in very early flower and stretching. I adjusted the LST ties to pull the branches apart further while it’s still stretching.
5/3 Finish adjusting the LST ties then defoliated and removed some lower branches.
Added end of week photos of the two plants in early flower and the third one that is still stretching.
I had to start running the aircon and dehumidifier due to it being summer and we always have higher humidity here.
With aircon and dehumidifier
Air temp in tent is 23.3c
Humidity in tent is 55%
Leaf temp is 23.8c
Without aircon and dehumidifier
Air temp in tent is 30c
Humidity in tent is 70%
Leaf temp is 28c
7/3 I fed the girls a booster feed to start the week off strong. Uploaded latest photos of the girls and a photo of the Ocean Grown and Dr Greenthumbs products I have been using for this grow.
Booster Feed mixed with 12L of filtered PH6.5 water.
Booster feed dose
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate 110ml
Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar & Kelp 60ml
Dr Greenthumbs Fruit Roids 6 scoops
Tribus 10ml
9/3 Applied another booster feed and flattened down the cover crop before watering to prepare for another top dressing in a few days.
10/3 Environmental parameters at 8am, two hours before lights off plants are from 22-30cm
from the light.
Leaf temp: 24-25c
Air temp 27c
Humidity: 60-70%
I purchased a dehumidifier to try and get the humidity down more consistently before I was using the split system in dry mode and now I can also utilise the air con for lower temperatures.
I adjusted the LST ties on the two that are further into flower to pull the branch a little more apart to allow light to reach the middle bud sites better before I do the next defoliation in a week or two.
Chop & dropped the cover crop then I applied a top dressing, new cover crop of dichondra and watered them with another booster feed of about 3.3L each.
11/3 The front larger plant has really stretched the last few days and has finally started developing bud sites. It show signs of being a little overwatered from this week.
The other two are looking great with praying leaves and has a very light sweet smell. Holding off defoliating this week after adjusting the LST ties to pull the branches apart little more.
Booster feed dose
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate 110ml
Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar & Kelp 60ml
Dr Greenthumbs Fruit Roids 6 scoops
Tribus 10ml
Top dressing
1 cup of Dr Greenthumbs Go & Grow
3 cups of Dr Greenthumbs Bud & Bloom
2 cups of Ocean Grown - Fish & Urchin Compost
2 cups of Dr Greenthumbs 4+1 Compost Blend
1/3 cup of Dr Greenthumbs Root Roids granular
1/3 cup of Ocean Grown - Cal Mag
2 cups of Dr Greenthumbs Insect Frass.
3 cup of Seasol Biochar Soil Conditioner
Booster feed Ingredients
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate
NPK 2.5 : 1.5 : 0.3
Certified organic & cold-processed to retain ALL of the major nutrients, vitamins, amino acids, and trace elements!
Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar + Kelp
NPK 0.1 - 0 - 1.36
Deep Sea Sugar + Kelp supplies your plants with highly beneficial & chelated micro and macro nutrients, whilst stimulating a strong hormonal response.
Tribus (Bacillus Microbes)
A highly-concentrated, targeted blend of three growth-promoting rhizobacteria that can be used with organic or conventional growing practices to increase crop quality and quantity.
Ingredients: Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Bacillus pumilus.
Dr Greenthumbs - Root Roids (Root Health & Plant Support)
NPK 1.5 : 0.5 : 3
Root Roids is a premium combination of Mycorrhizae & Nutrient Solubilizing Bacteria.
Ingredients: Rhizophagus irregularis, Bacillus subtilis, Trichoderma harzianum, Beauveria bassiana, and 100% organic based microbe food.
Fruit Roids (Organic Flowering Enhancer)
Provide plants with a full spectrum of organic minerals, amino acids, growth hormones & enzymes, highly targeted towards flowering plants and unlocking their true growth potential. Perfect for Coco & Soil!
Ingredients: Proprietary blend of 100% natural enzymes, plant based growth hormones, minerals, amino acids & complex carbohydrates.
Top Dress Ingredients
Dr Greenthumbs - Go & Grow (Vegetative Craft Blend)
NPK 4 : 2.5 : 3
Ingredients – Alfalfa meal, Neem meal, Kelp meal, Malted Barley, Coconut meal, Soy meal, Gypsum, Lime, Rock Dust mix, Potash, Seabird Guano.
Handy Tip – To create an All-Purpose Fertilizer Blend, combine equal portions of Go & Grow + Bud & Bloom. The resulting NPK is typically 2.5 – 2.5 – 3!
Dr Greenthumbs - Bud & Bloom (Flowering / Fruiting Craft Blend)
NPK 0.5 : 2 : 3
Ingredients - Alfalfa meal, Neem meal, Coconut meal, Kelp meal, Seabird Guano, Gypsum, Rock Dust mix, Malted Barley, Potash
Handy Tip – To create an All-Purpose Fertilizer Blend, combine equal portions of Go & Grow + Bud & Bloom. The resulting NPK is typically 2.5 – 2.5 – 3!
Ocean Grown - Fish & Urchin Compost
NPK 0.8 : 0.4 : 0.2
Composted Fish & Sea Urchin is of the highest quality while being completely unique and packed full of plant available nutrients & wide range of microbes to inoculate dead soil.
Dr Greenthumbs Insect Frass
Insect Frass is absolutely teeming with beneficial microbes, chitin, and plant available nutrients! It will not only work to improve soil health, activate natural plant defenses, and accelerate plant growth, but also feed & boost your beneficial microbe population!
Ocean Grown - Cal Mag (Complex Calcium & Magnesium For Living Soil)
Blended from only premium, (majority) ocean derived ingredients, growers can now provide their plants with a fast & slow release source of Cal Mag!
Ingredients - Black Basalt Rock Dust, Glacial Rock Dust, Fish & Bone Meal, Kelp Meal, Fish Meal, Oyster Shell, Leonardite
Root Roids Granular (Mycorrhizal Inoculant)
Root Roids Granules - Are the perfect partner to give your garden a boost of probiotic & symbiotic fungi to increase disease resistance, root development, and overall plant vigor.
Ingredients; Rhizophagus irregularis @ 260 propagules per gram + natural carrier.
Dr Greenthumbs - 4+1 Compost Blend
(Cow - Chicken - Mushroom - Insect Frass - Rock Minerals)
This compost blend has been designed to help gardeners build premium potting soils add back valuable nutrients to existing garden beds!
Seasol Biochar Soil Conditioner
Seasol Biochar with Zeolite improves the soil structure and nutrient uptake for healthy soil and even healthier plants by combining four key natural extracts: Bio charcoal, Zeolite, Paramagnetic Rock and Seasol.
Ingredients: Bio charcoal, Seasol, Zeolite and Paramagnetic rock dust.
13/3 I checked the tent two hours before lights off and the front larger plants top leaves were drooping again.
I think I was wrong with the overwatering and this girl is just going through the water faster then the other two and/or it could also be wind burn so I have relocated the fan as well.
I watered them with filtered PH 6.5 water, 3L each to the back two and 4L to the front plant.
I also noticed that I very lightly split one of the branches at its base when adjusting the LST ties the other day. I wrapped soft ties around the branch and tied it to the main trunk of the plant to help support the weight while it heals.
7:20pm lights been on for 3hrs 20 mins the environment in the tent is:
Split system running in dehumidifier mode with dedicated dehumidifier also running and set to 55% humidity.
Temperature: 26.6c
Humidity: 53.4%
Leaf temperature: 26c
To test the environment I switched split system to air con mode and set to 18c for 2 hour with dedicated dehumidifier set to 55%.
9:20pm
Lung room environmental (bedroom):
Temperature: 18.9c
Humidity: 58%
Tent environmental:
Temperature: 22.5c
Humidity: 58%
Leaf temperature: 23c
14/3 I watered the girls with 4L of filtered water PH to 6.5. Just a few tip and the side edge of one leaf is showing light nutrient burn.
(Return to booster feed once a week and filtered water PH to 6.5 the rest of the week.)
15/3 checked the plants before work 2 hours before lights off, top soil is semi dry and the bottom of the fabric pot feels slightly damp.
Defoliated the two girls that are further into flower.
18/3 Watered the girls with 3L of filtered water PH to 6.5.
19/3 I took some end of week photos and plan on raising the back two up closer to the light to match the height of the front plant to increase the light intensity on them.
The plant at the back left has started showing slight hints of purple hues, both the two back plants are stacking nicely and are just covered with trichomes.
It’s really interesting to see the difference in the two that started flowering earlier and the front plant that is massive compared to them.
20/3 I defoliated the front larger plant tonight after I got home from work now she has finally followed the other two into flower. I also adjusted the LST ties to pull the branches apart more.
I then watered with 5L each of filtered water Ph to 6.5.
21/3 Applied a top dressing and then a booster Feed of 1.25L each just to water in the top dressing.
Booster feed mixed with 5L of filtered water PH to 6.5
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate 50ml Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar & Kelp 25ml
Dr Greenthumbs Fruit Roids 5 scoops
Tribus 10ml
Top dressing
4 cups of Dr Greenthumbs Bud & Bloom
2 cups of Ocean Grown - Fish & Urchin Compost
2 cups of Dr Greenthumbs 4+1 Compost Blend
1/3 cup of Dr Greenthumbs Root Roids granular
1/3 cup of Ocean Grown - Cal Mag
2 cups of Dr Greenthumbs Insect Frass.
2 cup of Seasol Biochar Soil Conditioner
25/3 water the girls with 3.25L of filtered water PH to 6.5 mixed with Dr Greenthumbs Fruit Roids 10 scoops and
Tribus 20ml to 10L of water.
26/3 The two girls that are further into flower some of their larger fan leaves felt brittle and a bit dry so I defoliated them. I also finally raised the two shorter plants up to be a bit closer to the light.
I uploaded a few higher quality photos of the girls at the end of the week.
27/3 I watered the girls with a booster feed of 4L filtered PH to 6.5, Slight runoff.
Booster feed was mixed with 15L of filtered water pH to 6.5
Booster feed dose
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate 150ml
Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar & Kelp 75ml
Dr Greenthumbs Fruit Roids 15 scoops
Tribus 15ml
29/3 The pots were very dry on the surface and bottom felt slightly moist, I water the girls with 3L of filtered water PH to 6.5 mix with Tribus and Dr Greenthumbs Root Roids as a soil microbial inoculate only.
Microbial inoculate dose mixed with 10L.
Tribus 20ml
Dr Greenthumbs Root Roids 10 scoops
31/3 I watered just the back larger plant with 5L of filtered water PH to 6.5, slight run off. The two front plant’s bottoms of the fabric pots still felt moist.
2/4 I watered each with 3L of filtered water PH to 6.5 mixed with a booster feed.
Booster feed dose mixed with 12L.
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate 120ml
Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar & Kelp 60ml
Dr Greenthumbs Fruit Roids 12 scoops
Tribus 15ml
I have just been water the girls with 3L each of plain filtered water PH to 6.5 ever second to third day this week.
The buds are swelling nicely and they all look stunning. Especially the purple one! 😍🤤
I’m starting to just see a few amber trichomes appearing and mostly all cloudy with still a small few of them clear on the front left plant.
The purple plant at the front right has almost no amber with mostly cloudy and clear.
The larger one at the back definitely has a few weeks more to go with mostly clear and few cloudy.
9/3 Fed the back larger plant a 4L booster feed to finish of the week since she is a little behind the other two and watered the other two with 3L of filtered water PH to 6.5.
Booster feed dose
Ocean Grown - Fish Hydrolysate 40ml
Ocean Grown - Deep Sea Sugar & Kelp 20ml
Dr Greenthumbs Fruit Roids 4 scoops
12/4 Same as last week, I have just been watering with filtered water PH to 6.5 as the girls are near the end of flowering.
16/4 I harvesting two of the three plants on Sunday night, I didn’t water those two plants for most of the week to let them dry out for a couple of days before I harvested.
I converted this tent into a dry room and moved the other plant that was later to flip to flower to another tent to finish up ripening for week or two.
The two plants that were harvested had very similar growth structure and flipped to flower at the same time compared to the one still flowering.
The one that was at the front right developed incredible looking fat purple buds covered in trichomes and at the end the leaves faded slight yellow with purple highlights. The trichomes were mostly all cloudy with only a few amber ones hear and there.
The one that was at the front left developed incredible looking fat darker green with very slightly purple highlighted buds covered in trichomes and at the end the leaves stayed mostly darker green with yellow leaves mostly around the top of the plant. The trichomes were most all cloudy but with noticeable more amber trichomes than the other.
17/4 After I harvested the other two plants late last night, I moved this larger plant into another tent to allow it a little more time to flower.
Watered with 3L of filtered water PH to 6.5.
18/4 My light timer was playing up so I’m going to run her out till harvest on 24hrs a day.
21/4 I haven’t watered since the first watering of the week to dry her out.
I defoliated all the large fan leaves before harvesting her. She is now hanging with the other two that have been drying for 5 days.
Drying Room Environment
Humidity: 58-62% mostly at 60%
Temperature: 19-21°
* There was two night my aircon was left off and drying tent temperature was at around 26° for a total of 6-10hrs.
Can’t wait to finish drying & curing stage to try some and to see the total weight of each plant.
23/4 I removed most of the root ball that could without damaging it from the three fabric pots and uploaded photos of them. I then combined all the soil and stored it in a storage container, As I won’t be doing another run for awhile after the other tent finishes.
28/4 The grow went extremely well with the Dr Greenthumbs and Ocean Grown organic products, I used one dose of Purecrop1 when I noticed a few fungus gnats in the soil at the start of the grow and I didn’t see not one fungus gnat or any other major problem the entire grow, amazing stuff.
I highly recommend the products if you’re growing 🍁organically down under 🤫🖖.
The beans were freebies with my order from https://herbiesheadshop.com/. Purchase went well and passed customs first attempt with out issue.
“I was actually more excited to run these over the ones I purchased when they arrived! 🤙”
Super impressed with the quality of the 420 Fast Buds Gorilla Cookies. The three plants expressed themselves almost completely differently during the grow.
Two of the plants flipped fairly early and had very similar growth structures, I was only able to preform a moderate amount of LST on them.
While the other just kept stretching and I was able to preform a lot more LST.
Both of the two smaller plants have developed really dense buds covered with trichomes. One plant has deeper green buds with highlights of purple, the other developed really deep purple buds which look’s completely amazing.
The buds are starting to smell absolutely phenomenal!
Looking forward to trimming the last plant in about a week for the total yield for the tent but I’m very happy with the numbers from these two already.
Total Yields for this grow:
Gorilla Cookies Phenotype #1 Purple Plant.
Total yield: 135g
Very impressed even from the b) buds during testing! 🍁🖖
Gorilla Cookies Phenotype #2
Darker green with light purple plant
Total yield 167g
Very impressed even from the b) buds during testing! 🍁🖖
Gorilla Cookies Phenotype # 3 Light medium green with light purple plant
Total yield 250g
Total 3x3 yield 552g 19.71 oz 🖖🤙
6/5 Finished drying the larger plants and after the trimming the buds look the best of the lot. Very dense and smells amazing.
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