Overflow Strawberry Gorilla/Cookies

November 15, 2023 Day 71 A new week closer to a wonderful harvest. Although these are 10 week strains, I'm not so sure they will meet the mark. Lol. Maybe 3 weeks left for harvest? Another week of flower. Maybe 2, then a week of flushing. I'd like to see 2 weeks of fade. Not to mention, I'd also like to start flushing when the pistils are about 50% orange. That should give me a week of flushing before harvesting. Strawberry Gorilla: This plant looks great. Her buds are getting fatter by the day. Pistils are steadily turning orange all over, but slowly. I can see maybe another 2 weeks of flower out of her before she needs the flush. But I've never grown this strain so I'm not exactly sure what to expect. Her leaves are starting to get a bit dark and the tips are starting to get a slight burn. I see too much nitrogen. Luckily, today I cut the Base Grow nutes in half. So she should bounce back in no time. She got a full top feed today. About 1.5 liters of water until runoff. Just to get a fresh top watering with some recharge. Gorilla Cookies: She's still upset. Another flush today. She dried out fairly quickly without the bottom feed system. I'll leave it like this for another few days until I see some improvement. I won't flush tomorrow though, I want to let her dry out a bit. Maybe I can start the bottom feed system in a couple days after the last flush, if needed of course. I'll have to empty it out and refill with the new regimen. Anyway, she has some pretty decent buds happening now. Slow to fatten up, but it honestly looks like she is just taking more time than needed to stack. Then she will start to plump up. At least that's what I'm hoping. I don't see why not. This strain seems to take it's time growing. Maybe it's due to her being sativa dominant? That would make sense too. Speaking of, the 3 Gorilla Cookies I'm growing are all different phenotypes. The biggest is definitely an indica dominant, then the next is certainly a hybrid. The one in this tent is taller than the hybrid, but more lanky. Her internodal spacing is long where it's near perfect on the hybrid. Both have advantages. The biggest one, the indica, just started flowering, so I'm not really sure how her internodal spacing will be. Branches are kind of long, but the leaves are huge. So far, from what she has, her internodal spacing will be fairly short. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.1° RH: 52.3% VPD: 1.35 kPa November 16, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: She looks fantastic! Her buds are nice and bulky. Super dense and ready to pack on more weight. She's definitely not done swelling either. The pistils are still long and not skhriveled up yet. There is an abundance of orange pistils, but it's like 20% all over the plant. Very well distributed. It just tells me I won't be waiting for certain parts to finish up. It should all finish up at the same time, giving me a very healthy harvest. Gorilla Cookies: The burn is still going on. But maybe it's lessening a bit? I'm not really sure, but I'll keep flushing for another day. She got one this morning. After tomorrow, I'm going to reactivate the bottom feed system. Somehow I'm going to have to figure out how to get the full reservoir out without spilling and replenish it with fresh nutrients of the correct measurements. Her buds are starting to swell. Slowly bure surely. That must mean she is getting better. I could be doing it right. Nice. Or not. No clue. Grow System Environment: Temp: 75.3° RH: 50.2% VPD: 1.50 kPa November 17, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: This lady has about 2 weeks left. Her pistils are starting to change a little bit faster now and her buds are super plump. Trichomes are looking really good as well. I can say this is definitely a frosty strain. Anyway, she will be starting Overdrive with the next feeding and the Big Bud will be removed next week. From what I'm seeing, I'll get about 2 weeks more of flowering and then I can flush for a week. So 3 weeks total left for her? Gorilla Cookies: She still looks sad, but now I'm starting to think she won't actually recover the leaves. Maybe it will take another day or so. She doesn't seem to be getting worse at all. Unfortunately I couldn't remove the water without spilling it everywhere, so I reactivated it and will water it down using a gallon of plain water. That should do it. After that, she will be back in the proper feeding regimen. Grow System Environment: Temp: 75.5° RH: 50.4% VPD: 1.51 kPa November 18, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: This plant looks really good. I did not expect her to be such a nice looking plant. Or as big as she is in a 1 gallon container. She's totally covered in tops and buds and they are still swelling. Another 2 weeks and she should be ready. Maybe 3. I can't quite tell yet. Gorilla Cookies: This plant is way bigger than I could ever have imagined in a 1 gallon container. I'm not complaining at all. She doesn't seem to be getting any worse so maybe she is recovering. Not to mention, the buds swelled up pretty nicely last night. Depending on how her reservoir looks later today, I might top it off with plain water again. That should do it for the rest of the reservoir. I'll clean it out when it's nearly dried up and fill it with the new nutrient regimen. Update: I changed the feeding regimen entirely. I took out the Base Micro and Grow. I also removed the Cal/Mag. Basically anything with nitrogen in it. There will definitely be enough in the soil to last the rest of the grow. I also increased the Tasty Terpenes to 5 ml and Bud Candy to 5 ml as well. Overdrive and Big Bud stayed the same. Hopefully this helps with the nitrogen issues I'm starting to run into. Grow System Environment: Temp: 76.0° RH: 54.4% VPD: 1.41 kPa November 19, 2023 Nothing to do today. Some notes for both plants, but no activity. Strawberry Gorilla: She's looking really good. I'm assuming it'll take a few days for the nutrients to kick in. A few more to use up the rest of the nitrogen in the soil. Her buds are really fat and seem to be swelling a bit more. I'd say another week of flowering then another week of maturing before harvest or even before flushing. Gorilla Cookies: She looks to be bouncing back. The damage on the leaves is permanent, but she should start lightening up quite a bit in the next week or so. Other than that, I have been observing her buds and I'm not seeing much swelling anymore. I'm assuming it was due to the nitrogen toxicity. Now that she's almost recovered, I can only assume she will get back to it in no time. Not to mention the new nutrient regimen. Update: I decided to remove some leaves from both ladies today. Not much. Just enough to open up some space and make some air flow. Strawberry Gorilla got most of it. I took a few off Gorilla Cookies but I want to wait for her to fully recover before I remove anything else. She definitely needs to be cleaned up. Not only inside the canopy, but outside the plant. The leaves are blocking airflow from the sides. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.7° RH: 53.0% VPD: 1.35 kPa November 20, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: She took perfectly to the defoliation and has some nice open space for airflow. She's still super dense with fairly large sugar leaves. She also got a full top watering today. She was really light and the bottom feeding system seems to be inactive. It should fix now that I have some runoff. Gorilla Cookies: This lady got a full defoliation today. Well, about 15% pulled off. She really needed it. Lots of leaves that were just smashed in the middle of the plant. Some on the outside that should have been removed a month ago. Either way, she looks perfectly healthy and needed the defoliation. She needs no water today. Her reservoir will need a refill tomorrow I think. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.4° RH: 49.0% VPD: 1.45 kPa November 21, 2023 Last day of week 10 and both ladies look good. Next week is week 5 of flower and should be getting into the maturing stage. Strawberry Gorilla: I'm very satisfied with how this plant is turning out. It's really cool how she's in a 1 gallon container. Once she is done, I think I'll get a couple ounces from her. I'm hoping for 3 oz, but I'm not expecting it. However, I did grow a watermelon in my last run and I got roughly 2.5 oz from her. She wasn't as solid as this lady. This lady also has bigger buds and more of them. She has very little in popcorn buds because of her short stature. So I should be looking at 3 oz of dried bud. I don't cound trimmings. Although, I maybe should. Not in the final results, but definitely leave it in the notes. Gorilla Cookies: Is definitely feeling better. Her leaves are starting to lighten up and buds are getting fatter. I'm happy that I caught this issue and managed to fix it. Anyway, her bottom feed system is working pretty well. I'm debating how much I want to feed her tomorrow. I think I'll just go to runoff with the recharge. So probably a half gallon. Grow System Environment: Temp: 71.6° RH: 49.9% VPD: 1.34 kPa