Gorilla Cookies- Summer Autos 2025

InsideAz Summer autos 2025 Trying some different seeds I’ve been researching and chose based off characteristics or lineage Barney’s farm (2): Mimosa x Orange Punch 420 fastbuds (2): LSD-25 Sweet seeds (2): Devil Cream 420 fastbuds (1): Gorilla Cookie (free) 420 fastbuds (1): Banana Purple Punch Week 1 (germination and week 1): 4/27/25-5/7/25 Grow room is a closet 2’x10’ Seeds germinated in soil on 4/27/25 and typically all sprouted on 5/1/25. (3) spiderfarmer sf2000’s provide plenty of light and keep energy cost down. Very reliable and powerful lights for price. Starting seeds at 30-40% light intensity for the first 2 weeks 7/8 success rate, one of the Devil Creams didn’t make it bc I broke the top off while searching for seeds in soil. Planted another and it has sprouted on 5/6/25 (about a week later). Will begin to increase light intensity and monitor vpd closely over the next week (: Week 2: 5/7-5/14 Just been watering with ph of 6-7, adjusting fans so they don’t blow directly on the plants. Devil cream #2 will be a week behind this whole grow and I don’t want to keep referencing it for documentation ease. At the end I’ll just have to remember it might go a week longer than the rest

InsideAz Week 3: 5/14-5/21 Strain notes: The biggest strain in this grow so far. Seems to be a few days ahead of the others despite sprouting at the same time. Excited to see what this has to offer. I was excited just to get this strain for free and have the only seed speout General info: Light intensity increased from 40-50% throughout week. Only twisting the main cola gently once every few days (twist n snap) to promote growth Water ph between 6 and 7 Temperature stays steady at about 75f but the humidity has been ranging between 40-60% throughout the day. (Lowers when I’m at work) They should have plenty nutrients for the next couple weeks so for now we wait patiently and adjust conditions based off what they say they need.

InsideAz Week 4: 5/21-5/28 Strain notes: This girl is huge! Extremely fast growth comparative to the rest of the closet. And it’s not even showing signs of flower so it’s either stretching now or it’s going to be a MASSIVE auto. Very resilient branches, recovers fast from lst General grow notes: Light intensity gradually increased from 50%-60% Twisting main colas every water (every other day) Leaf tucking DAILY, sometime multiple times a day. These girls grow fast and a whole day without the proper light to a branch is inches of growth being missed. Not taking leaves off until the flower stretch is nearly done. I’ve dialed in the humidity and airflow through the closet finally. Plants are all thriving and recovered from previous stress by either too much wind or humidity in certain spots of the closet First photos are of some leaf tucking performed on 5/21. Will try and update pictures of corresponding growth towards the end of the week (5/27)

InsideAz Week 5: 5/28-6/04 Strain notes: Such a fast growing and sturdy plant. I think it will finish stretching towards the end of this week but it’s growing sites now so we’ll just consider her in flower this week. General Grow notes: All plants have officially flipped to flower and most have stopped stretching, with exception to the Devil Cream #2. Defoliating sometime in the middle of this week, and will upload pictures for the end of the week progression. Top dressing middle of next week and that will be the final feed for these plants. Light intensity will be increased from 60%-65% throughout the week, I’ve seen a light burn on some leaf tips so I’m going to dial back the increase in intensity until the next week of flower

InsideAz Week 6: (6/04-6/11) Strain note: She’s a big and leafy girl, takes a lot of leaf tucking comparit General grow notes: Top dressing this week and this will be the last food these girls get. My typical auto grows finish 6-8 weeks into flower so this food should last about a month. Also experimenting with different varieties of the same nutrients I’ve been using (info below). Will see how the plants react and adjust accordingly. Light intensity increased to 70% Top dressing was watered in with the same water I always use. Tap water dechlorinated for 24-48 hours and ph’d to 6-6.8 Top dressing: (per plant) *2 gallon pots* 1.25 tablespoon Gaia green 444 1.25 tablespoons Gaia Green 284 1 tablespoon Gaia Green Mineralized Phosphate 3 tablespoons Down To Earth Kelp Meal 2 teaspoons Down To Earth Alfalfa Meal 13 ish tablespoons Wiggle Worm Pure Worm Castings

InsideAz Week 7: (6/11-6/18) Strain notes: Big sender, performing absolutely perfectly. Happy to have gotten this as a free seed General grow notes: Towards the end of last week some (what I think is phosphate deficiency) started to become very obvious. This makes sense because I don’t generally use a lot of phosphate towards the beginning of plant life especially not autos that I only get feed twice. (at the beginning of their life and in the middle.) I had written down to top dress two days earlier than what I did last week and missed my mark. Could’ve saved some of these leaves, upsetting but gotta keep carrying on. Last weeks top dresssing should start being available this week (after a few watering) and I hope to see some improvement. But sometimes these purple plants slip away from me in the health/appearance category . Still learning and progressing Light intensity increased to 78% Typical environment is 73-78f & 45-65% Rh It’s been getting hotter outside, upwards of 105 daily so the humidity control has been annoying but my new ac unit has kept the grow room nice and cool so far when I’m usually battling 85+ degree heat. Time to put it to the test on the next grow, show I risk it with some photoperiods in the 5x5 after this grow? Or should I do around 2 of the current closet grow?

InsideAz Week 8: (6/16-6/25) 4th week of flower Strain notes: Healthiest looking plant but slowest at growing buds. Sometimes the best things you gotta wait fir General grow notes: Light to 80% Water every other day approx 3/4 gallon per plant Dechlorinated tap water ph to 6.5-6.8 Fades going on all around the tent as well. Seems to be I have an abundance of deficiencies or toxicities of the plants just want to fade as some look very developed (but still a couple weeks from maturity). Weird thing is that these autos are developing flowers at a fast rate, and they smell delicious. I’ve always had my autos look pretty beat up by the middle-end of their lifecycle. While my photoperiods thrive with the same nutrient for many weeks longer during the flower stages. (Nutrients are obviously different amounts per pot size). That’s a long way of saying I’m not worried and I have some different ideas to try for my next batch of these autos.

InsideAz Week 9: (6/25-7/2) Strain notes: she is swelling finally, definitely going to take longer than the rest, maybe even longer than I had anticipated with the amount of food delivered. Might look into doing a tea next week, something light just to push it through General grow notes: Light at 80-85% Temp & Rh- varies between 70-80f and 40-60 rh Tap water dechlorinated for 24-48 hrs and phd to 6.5-6.8 I have plans of switched my ph down next grow to Citric acid The color change and aroma production is in full effect this week. Most plants are getting close to my idea of maturity and have nearly 100% cloudy trichomes, will be surprised if half of them make it through the next week before being chopped.

InsideAz Week 10: (7/2-7/9) Strain notes: this one is going longer than expected and I definitely underfed what could’ve been a dense plant. Top dressed with some earthworm castings this week but it’s pretty late in the game to fix her. Still she continues to develop in unexpected ways. General notes: These girls are just about crossing the finish line, with some a little faster than others. Next week I’ll be cleaning out the closet and potentially starting the next batch of autos depending on space available.

InsideAz Week 11: (7/9-7/16) Strain notes: She has really shocked me this week, after a cleaning of dead leaves I can see its potential. Starting to really get dense and frost up those thick colas it’s been developing. A cookies smell is prominent. One more week on this girl and I think she’s going to finish fast and hard General grow notes: This week the closet is looking empty, plants are in various stages of the drying process as I take them out one by one based on trichomes maturity. Each plant will spend 2 days in darkness with same environment conditions as the grow closer (once they reach maturity) and then will be chopped to hand and dry for hopefully 5-10 days. Extra focus on keeping temperatures down (ideally below 72) and humidity between 40-55. Next Harvest updates will be harvested photos after 5+ weeks of curing. When they are ready to test but not at their peak cure