Overflow Strawberry Gorilla/Cookies

November 29, 2023 Day 85 This week we focus on watering and plants at 2 different stages. It shouldn't be too hard. Strawberry Gorilla: She got a reservoir top off with Flawless Finish. Looks great! Purples are starting to come in on the leaves. Her buds have a nice purple hue and I can expect even better buds after this flush and her fade. Gorilla Cookies: She is still in the mid flowering stage. I'd say another 2 weeks of flower before flush. Her buds are definitely fattening up. Today alone I noticed a big change in her main cola. Nice and fat. Big flowers coming out everywhere. She looks like she's going to be super chunky. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.0° RH: 53.0% VPD: 1.33 kPa November 30, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: This lady is looking great! The flush seems to have brightened her leaves a bit. A great sign! Her buds are fat and heavy. I can't wait to see this fade. She already has purple hues coming out on the leaves. This is going to be my prize Strawberry Gorilla I think. One of the others in the Main Tent may actually be bigger, but it's tough to tell because they are in vastly different container sizes. So this one could be an illusion of size and the other in its 5 gallon container makes the plant look smaller, but this could also be an illusion. I do t think so though. I'll find out when harvest comes around. 1 to 2 weeks left for this lady. Gorilla Cookies: So I now have some concerns. This plant seems to have foxtails everywhere. I could be wrong, but I'm familiar with them. So this plant may not turn out as bountiful as I originally thought. However, she still has a good 3 weeks left... Maybe a little less. But that's plenty of time to build those buds up. We shall see. I'll keep doing what I can to keep her healthy and happy. She seems to have taken well to the watering from yesterday. Let's hope she does just as well in the end like the 2 in the Main Tent. Update: I was taking a closer look at Gorilla Cookies and noticed it's just the upper colas that are doing the foxtailing. I could be wrong. But I'm pretty sure it's a light issue. The light is topped out and close to the 3 main tops. We shall see. The rest of the plant still has small buds. But they are forming more evenly. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.4° RH: 53.9% VPD: 1.26 kPa December 1, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: The Flawless Finish is already producing results. Her leaves are starting to turn purple and fast. There was just a little bit here and there. And today she's covered in beautiful purple colors and hues. Some pink on the buds with dark orange pistils. And she's covered in trichomes. She will be absolutely gorgeous at this rate. So excited. Her water intake is pretty good. She's drinking roughly a third of a gallon a day. It's pretty good intake relevant to her size. Gorilla Cookies: I really can't tell if her tops are foxtailing. Some of the buds on the other Gorilla Cookies in the Main Tent are doing the same thing but not as drastically. If this is foxtailing, I is definitely the light distance. The lower part of the canopy has no signs of foxtailing. Not yet at least. I still could be wrong. This could be how she grows. I dunno yet. Anyway, she is doing quite well with this dose of nutrients. She's thirsty and drinking close to a half gallon of water a day. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.1° RH: 52.3% VPD: 1.35 kPa December 2, 2023 It's raining today so it's a little humid. Nothing bad, but a little bit higher than I'd like. Over 50% instead of under 45%. No big deal. It's still in range. Strawberry Gorilla: She cleared out the reservoir overnight I think. So she got a full reservoir refill this morning. The fade is kicking in more and more. She definitely looks like she will be done in about a week or so. Maybe a little bit longer. I'm still expecting a bit more weight to be put on and maybe a bit more swelling. Gorilla Cookies: This lady is still looking like she won't produce much, but I have a feeling that won't be the case. Her buds are putting on weight. Especially the top colas. Still looks like foxtailing, but either way, the colas are getting fat now and that means the lower tops will catch up soon enough. Maybe not as big, but still decent and dense. I'm counting on the density of the strain to make up for the small buds. She also emptied her reservoir last night, so a reservoir refill was in order. Everything looks good now. I'd also like to add that I should have defoliated this plant better in the center. It's really crowded and squished. That is mostly due to the compact space she is in. Honestly, I think she will do much better when she gets into the Main Tent. That should be in 7 to 10 days. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.1° RH: 53.1% VPD: 1.38 kPa December 3, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: She looks great! The fade is starting to really show now and a ton of her leaves are turning a nice deep purple. I can't wait for her to finish up and see what this fade looks like. She needs no water today, but maybe tomorrow. Also, I haven't checked the bud density in a bit, but her buds look more dense now. With a week or so left to go, she may pack on even more weight. Gorilla Cookies: This lady is building her buds up now. Over night her main top puffed up 50%. Still looks like foxtails, but now big fat foxtails. The rest of the plant as I thought is starting to catch up. The lower part will end up with a lot of larf I think. But the tops should be nice and dense. Can't wait to see the end result. 3 to 4 weeks left I think. Update: I took a pic of one of the colas on the Strawberry Gorilla and it's beautiful. Purple leaves. Dark orange pistils. Some beautiful tequila sunrise colors. What a wonderful start to her fade. It took a few days, but there she goes. Another week like this and she will be perfect. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.8° RH: 54.4% VPD: 1.37 kPa December 4, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: She looks absolutely beautiful now. Purple leaves everywhere. Buds are super dense and the smell is dank. They're also a nice deep purple with some pink hues. Trichome production is spot on with her stage. Week 1 of flushing almost over. Another week or so and she will be ready for harvest. Maybe up to 10 days. Just to really get those cloudy trichomes. There's still too many clear, but also lots of cloudy and an amber here and there. Her leaves aren't shedding yet, but I think that will come soon enough. She got a reservoir refill today. It's taking roughly 2 days to empty it out, so I need to keep an eye on it. Gorilla Cookies: She's definitely starting to swell her buds. I would say another 2 weeks or so in flower, then a week or 2 of flushing. So maybe 4 weeks left. She needed a reservoir refill today. I added the cal/mag back in for now. She is starting to show a deficiency of either nitrogen or calcium I think. It's still early, so everything should be good now. She's also just too dense in the center of the canopy for any of the light to really penetrate below the main tops. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.5° RH: 55.8% VPD: 1.28 kPa December 5, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: Nothing going on with her today. Just drinking the water and fading away. Very beautiful plant. I'd say another week of flushing before harvest. I may do a final defoliation on her in like 5 days. Just before she is supposed to be harvested. I am predicting around 2 to 3 oz out of this one. Gorilla Cookies: Nothing going on today as well. Just drinking her feed and getting dense. Another 2 to 3 weeks left of flower for this one. Then a week or 2 of flushing. It's really hard to tell, especially in the condition she's in, but I'm guessing 2 to 3 oz for her as well. The lack of large side branches leaves me concerned for her yield. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.8° RH: 48.5% VPD: 1.49 kPa