Gorilla Cookies Auto in coco-coir

GnomesAndStones Day 1-4: 🌱 Germinated in a glass of water, she grew a tap root in just 24 hours despite being refridgerated for a year. I was missing the delivery of the coco-coir so i planted her in torn up pieces of cotton and kept her under a humidity dome for the first 3 days. 💧During the days before transplant she just got dechlorinated tap water with ph 6 and 1,5 ml/L of CalMag because of our soft tap water. ☀️ Started her off with ~250 PPFD. Day 4-5: 🌱 I transplanted her on day 4 into the coco-coir i soaked in ph 6 tap water with 1,5ml/L CalMag. ❗I really screwed up with the transplant though and ripped off most of her tap root, leaving just ~1 cm... 💧 Won't have to water her for some time because of the moist coco-coir. Day 5-7: ❗I'm not sure if it was because of her crippled tap root or on top of that, but she started to show some yellowing. ☀️ Dimmed the light down to 150 PPFD to reduce potential light stress. 💧 Gave her ~40 ml with nutrients since she should get hungry soon and maybe the yellowing is a deficit already.

GnomesAndStones Day 8-14: 🌱 She had a really good week! Her growth rate is significantly increasing, which makes me think that she has fully recovered from the broken tap root. She is about 2 days of growth behind her sister Strawberry Lemonade, which is just half day older. ☀️ I kept the light at the adjustments of day 7 until i was certain she could handle more. Increased it to ~300 PPFD on day 12 💧 I couldn't water her since the 40 ml on day 6 because the coco is still too moist. ❗Even though she is doing great right now, i am quite concerned for her water situation. I planted her into the coco coir right after soaking it and just squeezing out all the exzess water i could, resulting in quite a damp substrate. Since it is retaining the moisture so well, i cant really water and feed her. I fear a deficit even more than slightly overwatering, so i think i will still feed her tomorrow and pray.

GnomesAndStones Day 15-21 🌱 By far her greatest week so far. She has definetely overcome the excess of water in the coco and grew vigourously and healthy. On day 18 I started to train her with defoliation. 💧 I was finally able to water her on day 19, giving 1,5 l at 600 ppm. ☀️ Because she had her first real feeding and looks like she can handle more light, i increased the light intensity to 450 PPFD. If she approves, i will slowly raise it further during week 4.

GnomesAndStones 🌱 Nice week. She is not exactly thriving and seems to still have some sort of deficiency, nutrient lockout or light stress. Still she has grown quite a bit and would turn out a nice plant if she started flowering now. Still no pistils. Day 23 ❗Her leaves are still a bit bright and considering she only got very few nutrients when she started to show this, i assume its a deficiency. 💧Got watered with 2L at 800 ppm, pH 6. Day 26-28 ❗She picked up some speed, but her leave tips are yellow/slightly burnt. Also i noticed, that i still used the nutrient ratios for first true leaves, so the leave tips could also be from a lockout due to the high bloom part. ☀️ Decresed light intensity back to 300 PPFD. 💧 Despite the substrate being still a bit moist on day 28, i watered with 500 ml at 900 ppm with significantly more grow part.

GnomesAndStones 🌱 This was an extremely chaotic and eventful week for the Gorilla Cookies. Her deficiency highly increased every day, on day 30 i spottet first pisitils ( meaning this was basically week 1 bloom) and she had to endure different attempts to figure out her issue. Day 29 💧 Coco was dry, and i still expected some deficiency of grow nutrients, so she got watered with 1,5 L at 1000ppm, pH 6. Day 30 🌱 First pistils!! I am really glad she is starting to flower, but this also puts some stress on me since i now have little time to help her recover before missing out on the stretch and really lose size. Did some light defoliation to stimulate new growth and some final lst begore letting her grow as she desires in stretch. Day 32 💧 Coco was still moist but i felt the need to act before she misses out on too much growth. Also i am highly suspecting her issue to be a Magnesium deficiency. The result was the watering of 1 L with 3ml of CalMag and regular nutrients leading to 1300 ppm. Day 34 🌱 The coloring might be difficult to see on the pictures, but she turned a significantly darker green. I am almost certain now, that she was missing Magnesium. Also, the tip of her main stem was really scuffed with twisted and weid growth while one of the highest branches continued to grow and replace the top. I left that one and "topped" her. ☀️ Because she is starting to look better, i increased the light intensity to 400 PPFD. 💧 Substrate is dry, so she is getting watered with 2 L, containing 3 ml/L of CalMag and her regular feed, coming in at 1400 ppm total.