First Gorilla Grow (photoperiod)

Hi everyone, this is my first outdoor grow with full photoperiod ladies. I have a good amount of experience growing indoors however my current situation does not allow for that. This grow is running alongside my auto grow which is also posted on this site. All seeds came from Seedsman and are started in 4" pots after germinating in paper towels for 2 days. No beans have popped as of yet on the full photo plants. Not a lot to see at the moment but I will do my best to update this grow with as much detail as possible. All feedback is welcome and I hope we all can learn a lot from this. Thanks for stopping by!

Welcome back. It's been a busy week but the girls are looking mostly healthy. I have added identifiers to the plants so that I can keep track. 4= Holy Punch, 5 = Gelat OG, and 6 = Wedding Cake. I am sad to report that the Wedding Cake did not germinate. Sorry Barney's! To my regret, I mistakenly only ordered one of these seeds so who knows what may have happened. Based on my overall germination between this journal and my parallel auto flower journal, 14/16 seeds germinated, I think it is likely that this was just a case of nature not working. I still have a trio of Barney's Mimosa EVO that I will probably save for an indoor grow, unless someone out there can convince me otherwise! I have only watered these girls lightly 2x this week. Once I added the Roots Excelurator and the second watering I added the Mega Crop to the same solution as the Roots Excelurator. I pH each solution to 5.9 The plants are kept outside during the day and inside at night at ambient room temperature. I'm no longer using the heat mat or humidity dome. The plants are supplemented with 3-4 additional hours of light when I bring them inside, usually around 6:30 pm, to provide an average of 15 hours of light per day. Right now my goal is to encourage as much root growth as possible and to provide as much outdoors time as possible each day. I will maintain this routine for another week or so or until I decide they are ready for the permanent transition outdoors. I would also like to run a few trials with LST and ScrOG on these girls to realize for myself any benefit to the each of these techniques. That's about it for now. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions that may improve my grow! Thanks for stopping by.

Hi everyone and welcome back. Lots of growth to report this week as to be expected since we have had absolutely beautiful weather lately. Every time I go too check these girls they amaze me by how quickly they are growing. They are all outside full time now, including on this rainy day as you can tell from the pics. I've been pretty hands off this week except to water and fertilize every day. Same concentration of nutrients as last week, same amount of watering as well. I'm watering in the evenings to allow the plants to mostly dry up every day. I'm hoping this will encourage additional root growth. I'm thinking they are nearing being ready to pot up to the intermediate 4 gallon containers. I have 30 gallon grow bags these girls will eventually call home. I will likely do this in the next day or two as I have time. Once they have adjusted from the transplant I will begin topping FIMing and LST trials. Just a reminder the numbers correlate to the following plants: 4 - Holy Punch 5 - Gelat. OG I will update the tags to include the names for my next post to make things a bit easier. Now that the plants are outside I don't have to worry about my roommate asking about the fun names on my "Peppers". The Gelat. OG plants are 2/3 stunted for some reason but seem to be catching up a little each day. Hopefully they will reach their full potential. Any comments on what might cause this? That's all for now. Thanks again for stopping by!

It's a good thing these are weeds and not orchids. Between work and the farm I haven't had much time at all for these ladies this week. I did manage to pot up a few of them up to 4 gallon containers. The medium is composed of about 3/4 peat based potting mix and the rest fox farm ocean forest. It's a nice and light mixture that drains well in my plastic pots. I wish I had 4 or 5 gallon grow bags but this is all I had on hand. I do have 30 gallon bags for these when they get a bit older. For now a few seem to be a bit behind all of my autos. It's my first grow with autos though so this may be normal? Regardless, all the ladies seem to be doing nice. Weather has been mostly sunny and hot in the 90's. We had some pretty heavy rain the last two days and the girls are feeling pretty moist. I would like to fertilize again in the next day or so but would prefer to not over water. Maybe a folier feeding could work out? What do you think? I did fertilize and water just around the new mix when I transplanted. I have FIMed a couple of these and you can see in the pics the leaves that are starting to grow back. They are starting to smell a bit. I didn't get a chance to update the labels so here is the breakdown again: 4 - Holy Punch 5 - Gelat. OG

Sorry everyone for missing last weeks episode. I've been working a lot lately and haven't had a chance to get you some pics. This is the first week the ladies are in their permanent homes now. They get a decent amount of light during the day and are 7.5/10 in a safe place. As long as I'm careful with my visits, I shouldn't have t worry much about theft. I have a food safe drum that I have converted to store water in to minimize my trips back and forth. Should I worry about bacterial buildup in the water if I don't use it within a period of time? I have increased the amount of Mega Crop according to the feeding calculator on the Greenleaf website. The plants really do like this stuff. The amount of Roots Excelurator I use has not changed per the supplier recommendations. I was a bit nervous when I first moved the plants because we have a lot of deer in the area. The deer must not be interested in the plants once they become established. I'm glad I don't need to install fencing. That's about it for now. We have been having a lot of rain lately and I'm hoping that we get a few really nice days for the ladies to dry up and I can feed them again. Let me Know if you have any questions. Thanks for stopping by.