Strawberry Gorilla spring grow!

GTools After popping. the seeds quickly stretched, a bit too much to my liking. For transplanting, I dug a hole that could take the Eazyplug cube. The soil was amended with a little bit of Mycotrex. In 5 days, the stem grew and gives a solid base now. Hope they now grow fast to make some leaves and internodes before topping.

GTools Topped SG3 at the beginning of the week, SG1 and SG2 towards the end. No preflowers yet. Once the side shoots have developed, I will start LST.

GTools The side shoots have grown long enough to be trained. I am trrying to get a more or less even canopy. Luckily no preflower, so I think I got the timing right. I looking to have the manifold shape consolidated befor flowering starts, so that I can get the most out of the stretch.

GTools Did some defoliation and continued to train the branches. On SG3 I fimmed the fimming... I bend the main stem now in order to a void big height differences between the plants. Little pre-flowers showing at the internodes.

GTools SG2 is a slow grower and definitely a more leafy phenotype. SG3 recovered well from the failed fimming and is by now the tallest SG2 did a nice stretch. Starting a little fertilization, half dose of recommended nutrients

GTools The 3 plants are doing ok... but they shows symptoms of light stress. The symptoms happened in other grows of mine, though I never attributed it to light stress. Always started figuring out which deficiency was hitting. Fortunately this time, there are two control grows going in on, and the sisters there, did not show the symptoms... And the only main difference between the setup is the height of the grow lights! Definitely had them hanging to close. 😶 Never stop learning they say, well I learned something, So thanks growmies R&Fam and J&D for running controls 👊 I hope the ladies will forgive me 😀 SG3 is slightly higher 55 cm. the other 2 about 45cm, wanted to lollipop them but decided not to add additional stress

GTools The 3 plants are doing ok, They didn't suffer to much from the light burn. Upper leaves are still affected but the lower leaves do fine There is a distinct and strong smell that starts develping.

GTools In the last week there was a marked increase in bud production. considering that there will be at least 3 more weeks before harvest, the buds are already pretty fat. The lants have more or less recovered from light burn, the lower leaves and buds look pretty healthy again. Sompe pH issues, feeding at pH 6,3 and runoff is at pH 6,8 or 6,9...

GTools The 3 plants recovered form the light stress. I had expected them to end without healthy fan leaves left, after I had to take some bad looking fan leaves off the plants. Obviously the stress has left some leaves damaged (brown spots or yellow patches), but overall they are healthy. There is a distinct smell and the buds are quite resinous. The buds have been building up over the last week, and i can now expect one or two more weeks for them to gain weight! I'm still feeding them not to much nitrogen, but I keep P and K high as well as CalMag.

GTools The plants fully recovered from light burn are putting up a nice show .. well grow. They are all still very green, and the buds are fat with a good density. All three start some kind of foxtailing. All the buds, top, center and bottom on the three plants produce extra flowering sites that protrude from the bud. Now, hopefully these will fatten up until harvest somewhere in two weeks from now. I'm keeping a close eye on humidity and temperature in order to keep the bud rot at bay!

GTools The plants are developing nicely. Currently the buds are in to producing the 4th or even the 5th wave of new calyxes with the white stigmae (pistils) giving a nice contrast to the orange and red ones. The trichome heads have increased their volume, many are milky. Harvest week is approaching, I'll wait until amber trichomes appear.