Strawberry Gorilla and Gorilla Cookies

February 1, 2024 Harvest Day. Everyone is now harvested and Number 2 is an astonishing 110.5 oz, or 6.9 lbs or 3133 grams. My average plant dry weight is about 13.5% of the wet weight. However, I've never had such big and dense buds before. Not to mention the branches are twig thin, so those won't weigh much. The leaves are pretty abundant, so that may take away quite a bit of weight. However, as I said, the colas are absolutely enormous. My only concern is that I can't remove either trellis without damaging the plant. The lower trellis actually squeezed the whole plant in on itself. I'm not really sure what to do about that. I can't reach most of the leaves. Now it's because the plant is too low to the floor for me to reach. Hahaha! I'll keep the RH down to around 54% for the time being. When the leaves shrink a bit and space opens up, I'll try to bump it up to 58%. The issue I may run into is the RH of the lung room. It's cold and winter outside, so it's not very humid in there. The temp is fine, but the RH is pretty low for now. It may have taken super long for me, but I figured out a lot of why it took so long. Lighting, AND I found out even with night vision turned off, when lights go out, the red night vision lights come on anyway with my camera. This could be the cause of all the plants foxtailing. Especially the ones in the front right corner where the camera is mounted. Fixed. As a reminder, Number 1 was 22 oz wet weight and 2.2 oz dry. Gorilla Cookies: Total wet weight: 132.5 oz. Or 8.28 lbs or 3753.54 grams. Number 1: Dry Weight: 2.2 oz or 62.4 grams. Number 2: Estimated Dry Weight: 14.92 oz or 422.98 grams. Could be a bit more. February 2, 2024 Gorilla Cookies: Number 2: Day 1 Drying. She'll be getting a quarter turn every couple of days to promote even drying throughout the whole plant. No pictures today. I ended up putting the humidifier in the dry tent. I know it's not the best idea, but without it, the RH plummets to the high 40s. Currently it's at 54% and that's as much as I can do for it. I have another humidifier, but it's tiny and meant for my 2x2 tent. It also only holds 500 ml of water. So I'd be opening the tent up multiple times a day to refill it. Not good. I want this tent to stay closed as much as possible. Dry System Environment: Temp: 63.4° RH: 55.3% VPD: 0.86 kPa February 3, 2024 Gorilla Cookies: Number 2: Day 2 Drying I ended up attaching half of the ScrOG net back to the poles. It seems to help spread out part of the plant. The other half is still pretty compact. I'd put the net up, but the plant is offset and it ends up leaning against the wall it's facing. So I just have the back attached. It's kind of working. Anyway, the humidifier in the tent seems to be working perfectly. As long as I continue rotating the plant every couple of days, I shouldn't have any issues. Dry System Environment: Temp: 63.8° RH: 55.0% VPD: 0.85 kPa February 4, 2024 Gorilla Cookies: Number 2: Day 3 Drying Just filled the humidifier back up and tried to pull some of the branches free from the rest of the rats nest I call a plant. Lol. It's so tangled up and dense, I really can't do much about it. Not until I can cut it all up. I'll be rotating a half turn tomorrow. Based on my RH and Temp, I think she will be done around day 8 or 9. I doubt she will go for a full 10+ days. Maybe she will. As I said, it's really dense in there. But with the RH being slightly on the low side, I shouldn't run into any mold or mildew issues. Hopefully that is. So far everything looks pretty good. The environment is nearly spot on. The plant itself of drying at a good rate. Slow but not at a snails pace. If she goes over 10 days, I'll start to have concerns. I don't want to lose any yield. Anyway, that's all for now. Dry System Environment: Temp: 62.1° RH: 54.4% VPD: 0.85 kPa February 5, 2024 Gorilla Cookies: Number 2: Day 4 Drying Bad News Bears everyone. My Beasty hermied from all the light stress and I have a ton of seeds that are falling out into my catch trays. I have no idea what a seeded bud looks like apparently. And I can't tell what's seeded and what's not. I'll have to dissect everything and discover the errors of this fail. Where did it hermie? How many buds were pollinated? What signs should I look out for next time? Etc. I will update when she finishes drying. I'll definitely keep documenting as she goes through the rest of the process. I don't know what I'm going to do with all these seeds, but I guess I'll pop them and see what happens. However, there's definitely a whole lot more seeds. Possibly hundreds. If not close to 1,000. Maybe I'll sprinkle them in my back yard. Hahahaha. I'd get chewed out so bad for that. Lol. Anyway, I also weighed her up to see how much weight she has lost. In 4 days she has lost half of her weight. Now 51.4 oz. Still very wet though. I think she'll need 5 or 6 more days. I don't know how much more weight the seeds put on, so my original weight is skewed. The dry weight will also be skewed as well. Unless there aren't that many seeds. I doubt it though. Oh well. Still a lot of weed. Lol. Anyway, I think it came from the back of the plant where I couldn't reach or see. There's no where else I would have missed. I think. I'll just have to find where when it's done drying. Dry System Environment: Temp: 61.8° RH: 54.6% VPD: 0.83 kPa February 6, 2024 Gorilla Cookies: Number 2 Day 5 Drying I'm having a small issue with RH today. It's stuck around 53%. I'd like it to be above 55% now that the plant is about half done. I'll try to increase the humidity up to 58% by the time drying is done. As for the seeding issue, I'm pretty sure it's only a small part of the plant. Hopefully it actually was isolated in the back somewhere. I definitely won't know until I start trimming. Before I weigh the total yield, I'll do my best to clear out as many seeds as possible before hand. Quick Update: I decided to turn up the humidifier. Not much. Just enough though. Now the RH is sitting around 56%. Perfect. AND the temp is at a flat 60°. Also perfect. I rotated her as well. I think I'll have to rotate her daily because of the extra mist from the humidifier. I've also slightly increased the exhaust fan speed by one point. And it's pulling out the air quite nicely. Not too fast though. Just enough to get the extra humidity out. I'm really surprised at how well dialed in it is. Very satisfied. I will however be keeping an eye on it for any weird fluctuations. Oh, and there is a range the RH runs. When the heat kicks on, it drops a point or two. But for the most part it's right on point. A Lesson Learned: During this grow, I didn't discover the hermie issues until half way through drying. Seeds galore. So after some research, I discovered that seeded plants take longer to mature. That makes total sense now. This plant took a total of 20 weeks from seed to harvest. And she is an autoflower. Double the time it should have taken. I think I understand why the flowering stage took nearly 11 weeks. The plant must have hermied at the very beginning of the light stress issues. Which was during the stretch. Or a little bit after. That caused the plant to take so long it hermied early and due to my lack of access to much of the plant, I missed any signs of nanners or balls. So the lesson here is to try to do a better job inspecting the whole plant and of course remove any male parts immediately. Dry System Environment: Temp: 62.2° RH: 53.6% VPD: 0.86 kPa February 7, 2024 Gorilla Cookies: Number 2: Day 6 Drying I gave her a nice little turn this morning. She also didn't drop many seeds. Hopefully that means the majority have dropped. I know there will be tons in the buds, but I can only hope it's just a few of them. As I said before. We shall see. The environment hasn't changed at all. It's been the most stable I've ever had it. Very nice. I also tried to open the canopy up a bit by pushing my hand in and turning it flat so to not disturb the trichomes too much. Other than that, I had to fill the humidifier. Dry System Environment: Temp: 61.5° RH: 55.5% VPD: 0.80 kPa PERFECT February 8, 2023 Gorilla Cookies: Number 2: Day 7 Drying Filled the humidifier up and rotated her a quarter turn. I'd like to discuss the seeds and weight. I assume the seeds add some weight to the plant. The question is how much. So far I've collected 100 seeds from the catch trays and those weight around 1.4 grams. Based on how many seeds have dropped so far, I can only assume there will be significantly more in the buds. That being said, I wonder how many seeds there will be and how much will they weigh. I'm hoping for only 200 more. I figure double the fallen seeds makes sense as long as the whole plant wasn't seeded. Then there may be thousands, and I will lose a ton of yield. However, I don't think so. I've gently shaken the plant and found the seeds came from one spot. I can't find it though. I'm not turning the lights on, so I'll have to wait the next 3 to 4 days. At least that's what I think she will need. I did weigh her up today at 38 oz. So far that's a 64.6% drop in weight. But still a lot of weight. I estimate another 10% to 15% drop before harvest. Then about 50% of that should be smokable flower. So no matter what I do, the math shows between 14.5 oz and 16.5 oz final yield. Whole plant 110.5 oz minus the average dry yield of 13.5% is 14.9 oz Current weight 38 oz minus another 20% for the next 4 days, if not slightly less, minus 50% to dry yield is 15.2%. Based on extra density and size compared to my second largest plant, I can only assume the percentage will be higher. If I add 20% to the 13.5% I end up with 16.2%. That ends at 17.9 oz. Then I remove 10% for marginal error and end up with 16.1 oz. Lots of formulas. That was long winded, but the math needed to be explained. Mostly for my records. For now, this is all speculation. Hell, I could end up only getting 11% yield or end up with 17.5%. who knows. I'll record the results of course and add them to my averages. Dry System Environment: Temp: 62.0° RH: 56.5% VPD: 0.80 kPa PERFECT MAJOR UPDATE: I forgot the SCroG net had weight to it. That weighs 2.08 oz so in reality, the plant weighs 108.42 oz. So my math is skewed a bit. It should be around 14 oz to 16 oz dried and trimmed. Even a possibility of 17 oz. February 9, 2024 Gorilla Cookies: Number 2: Day 8 Drying Plenty of a to do today. She has but a few days left. I ordered a moisture meter yesterday. It will be here tomorrow. Just in time. She got a quarter turn and the humidifier a refill. I had one branch snap today. But that was it. I think what I'll do is pull a branch at a time with buds that are dried. That way I can take my time trimming. I'll be able to start curing at the perfect moisture level for each bud. I believe the outer branches will be done tomorrow and the center branches taking a couple more days. Anyway, the moisture meter will tell me if I'm right or not. I conducted snap tests on the outside and inside of the plant. Still a tiny bit of bend, but no snap yet. Especially in the center. But very close. I did find one branch that snapped, but just the one. I may check back and see if I should actually trim it up and bag it. I'm pretty sure there's some pretty big buds on that branch. I also took a new weight. The she is 35.5 oz. Still pretty heavy. So far that is 32% weight retention. She definitely won't lose much more. Maybe an oz, but I doubt it. I'm not really sure how much yield that will bring, but I'm pretty sure it's still within my calculations. I feel like after the plant has completely dried, there will be around 50% yield. So around 15 to 16 oz. However, I haven't checked dry whole plant yet, so I'm very interested to see the results. If it's actually a 50% different from whole try to trimmed and bagged, the yield would be and astonishing 17.75 oz. However I believe it will be a bit less. For a conservative number, I'm basing on 40% dry yield. That would be 14.2 oz. So it's kind of up in the air for now. Dry System Environment: Temp: 62.5° RH: 56.9% VPD: 0.81 kPa It's a bit warm today and the tent is up to 65°. The RH is still perfect, but I need to find a way to drop the temp back down to 62°. I'm sure it will adjust back down in a couple of hours. February 10, 2024 Gorilla Cookies: Number 2: Day 9 Drying Another ounce lost. She's just about done if not already done in some spots. I'm waiting for my moisture meter to get here then I'll check. Hopefully I'll be trimming tomorrow or the next day. I'll be ordering a rosin press in the next couple of weeks. If not this week. It all depends on what I want to do for soil. Reuse the current soil one last time or buy new soil and hold off on the press. I have a ton of soil, but it's used. However, I did grow this lady from used soil and my soil is always kept in a big lidded bin. Maybe I will reuse the soil and get the press. Next run I'll get new soil maybe. Anyone have any thoughts on the matter? It's one or the other this week. Or soil this week and press in 2 months. I think the press this week makes sense as I already have soil. Plus, the Beast has a whole lot of larf for pressing. Dry System Environment: Temp: 64.6° RH: 57.9% VPD: 0.85 kPa It's been warm out for the last couple of days and for some reason the central heat is still kicking on. I turned the AC on in my room to help drop the temp back down. The humidity is fine. The VPD could be a bit lower, but that will come with the temp drop. February 11, 2024 Gorilla Cookies: Number 2: Day 10 Drying Some of the lower branches with the wispy loose buds and larf snapped. So they got trimmed and bagged. My moisture meter was delayed and should be here today. I'll be using that for the larger buds. I now have the Temp at 60° and the RH is around 58%. Somehow, it had dropped down to 53% overnight. I turned the Humidifier up one notch. Brought it right up. Also, these smaller lower branches didn't have any seeds. So far so good. I'm really thinking it was an isolated area. I feel, because there is so much bud, if the whole plant got seeded, there would have been well over the 100 seeds that dropped. There will definitely be more, but only in some of the buds. So the rest of the plant should be good. I'll be slowly pulling outer branches and trimming them up over the next day or 2. Unless of course the meter shows I can trim the whole plant. I don't think so though. Update: My moisture meter came in finally. Perfect dryness. I'll be trimming for the rest of the day. Final yield to come. Dry System Environment: Temp: 62.7° RH: 55.9% VPD: 0.83 kPa February 12, 2024 Day 2 of trimming! There's so much weeeeeeeeeeeed! Moving into day 3 of trimming. Will check back tomorrow when I finish up with final yield. February 13, 2024 Day 3 trimming. Finally done! With a whopping 595 grams. Adding the other plant and we are at 654 grams total dry trimmed yield! Absolutely amazing! February 22, 2024 Quick Update: I bought a rosin press. A small one to start with. It works pretty well. Company called Dulytek. Seems they have all you need for a reasonable price. Anyway, pretty happy with it for my first press. I'll probably upgrade in a few months once I get the hang of it.