SleepyChow Hi Folks 👋🏼
Long time no see😂
You know how it is, guys. I just can’t help myself.😅
Shortly after the last grow, my fingers start itching again.
Just like last time, I’ve already prepared my soil and put the pots outside. Right now, I’m brewing a nice, light compost tea. For this auto run, I really don’t want to stress the plants with strong teas. That’s why there will only be three compost teas in total during the entire run, and all of them will be fairly mild. I’ll write down the exact recipe next time.
Of course, I’m reusing my old soil, which has been mulched with leftover plant material and branches from the previous grow.
For the start, I’ve prepared some jiffies. The seed will be placed in there, put into a propagation box, and kept warm with a heat mat set to 24°C. At the same time, I’ll already be running the light. One big advantage of jiffies is that they can be buried quite deep — they’re dark. Cannabis seeds are dark germinators, and with jiffies, this works perfectly fine even with the light on.
In past grows, I often had the problem that I didn’t turn the light on early enough and only noticed too late that my seeds had already germinated. Because of that, they immediately started stretching. It wasn’t a huge issue - I just buried the jiffies a bit deeper - but this time I want to see if I can prevent it right from the start.
Now a quick Strain Presentation:
🦍Gorilla Z Auto🍬
→Breeder:Fast Buds
→Heritage: GG4 Auto F6 x Z Auto F5
→Harvest: in ≈ 63 days
→Genetics: indica dominant 70/30
Fast Buds promise a very fast autoflower with a super high THC percentage of 28%
See you Growmies 👌🏼
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Peat Pellet
Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation
8d ago
1/6
18 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
80 %
Air Humidity
18 °C
Night Air Temp
65 cm
Lamp Distance
SleepyChow 05.01.2026
Day 1
Little Greta aka Gorilla Z saw the light of day today… well, the light of a 200-watt led lamp👶🏼😁
Seems like my light-from-day-one strategy with the jiffys worked out pretty well.
Her future home/big pot was already prepared four days ago. As mentioned, the pot is mulched with old leaf and stem material from the last run, given a gentle compost tea, and finished off with five tbsp of worm castings.
She will move in within this week.
AACT recipe (5l):
-5 tbsp worm castings
-1tsp malted barley
-1tsp molasses
See u mates👌🏼
06.01.2026
Day 2
Hi Folks,
Today I decided it was finally time to pot up and transplant the girls. I inspected the pots beforehand. Fungal life is definitely present, and arthropods are still around as well. However, there was some fungal mycelium I wasn’t entirely sure about in terms of its physiological state. Any mycelium that showed blue discoloration was removed immediately, along with the material displaying those color changes.
I watered the pots once more beforehand and installed the Blumat system. At the bottom of the Jiffies and directly into the planting holes, I sprinkled mycorrhizal and Trichoderma spores, using the Hubey Micorrhiza Spreader😬 I reduced the light intensity down to 40% ( 50% is recommended by Spider Garmer for its lamp in this phase) because the first leaves started to develop white tips.
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Week 2. Vegetation
17h ago
1/3
18 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
60 %
Air Humidity
18 °C
Night Air Temp
65 cm
Lamp Distance
SleepyChow Hi folks 👋🏼
The Gorilla Z is 6 days old today and she’s doing pretty well. She’s developing almost normally, looks vital and strong, and handled the transplant into the big pot without any big issues💪🏼her stem purpled a bit but nothing special.no big deal.
Two days after planting, I watered her with 333 ml of water in a radius of about 12 cm around the stem. The water was mixed with Root·Juice (stock solution: 1 liter of dechlorinated water with 4 ml Root·Juice) to give root development a little kickstart and help Rita settle into her new home. Root·Juice contains algae extracts and humic acids (plus small amounts of calcium, magnesium and iron), which are very beneficial for that purpose😬
Since I was a bit concerned that 4 ml (the upper limit according to the BioBizz schedule) might be a bit much for autos, I followed up three days later with another 333 ml of plain dechlorinated water. Greta continues to grow strong and physiologically healthy.She stretched a bit more than expected, so i increased the light intensity to 60%. Spider Farmer recommends around 75% at this stage, but I usually do better with a gentler increase in light strength.
Today I applied another 333 ml of a solution containing roughly 1.5 million nematodes per liter of water and also distributed predatory mites on the soil surface. I had already spotted a few predatory mites in my pots over the last days, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to reinforce them. These mites basically establish themselves in the soil and can live there for generations as long as there’s enough food available. Truly awesome beneficial insects🙏🏼
I have to admit, my fingers are itching already - I’m really looking forward to the moment when I can start bending and shaping Greta a bit
See u 👍🏼
