Gorilla G4

I wanted to grow this baby last year but that never happened so I'm catching up with all this quarantine time. I've always loved the original Gorilla Glue strain and whatever they call it now. Turns out this is gonna be a Hybrid-based summer with most of my outdoor crop being hybrids rather than Sativa's. Quite likely I will use the nutrients that came from Green House Seed Company for the contest they are sponsoring because they were designed for hybrids.

This baby kinda keeled over on me a couple days ago and I was a bit worried but she seems to have stabilized; might have been a bit too wet after repotting. Let her dry out for a day or two, then gave her her first taste of nutrients. We're heading into a super-hot period after the weekend with about 4 days near 90 so it will be tuff on the babies.

I'll probably top this girl sometime this week. She's making nice progress but clearly well behind my Jack Herer and White Widow. Stable and steady as she goes. June 1 > Decided to top this baby today after I topped both of my Wonder Pie's. Now all my photperiods have been topped once and we can sit tight for a couple weeks.

She seems to be doing nice after topping. Kinda hate it when the stem grows outa the ground at a 45 degree angle before straightening upward, but not sure that's a correctable issue. I can bend her a bit but that's it. A little late on my diary update - normally I would do this in the morning - but I was compelled to go out and attend a protest today ... so I included a few pics from that. June 9 >> Gave all my summer girls an undercarriage trim this evening at what's actually the beginning of the light cycle. The some food. She'll probably be moved outside within a week or so.

Time to move outdoors for the summertime! Transplanted her from a 2 gallon to a 10 gallon pot. She was leaning or bent at an angle as she sprouted and I've been kinda bending her back into straightness gently and hopefully she'll do a better job of standing straight up when we finish. She'll be stronger for all that bending anyway. Gave her another significant underside pruning. She'll get topped once more - after she recovers from her new wounds. Been very windy around here the last few days. Seems we been getting a few days each week with winds above 20 mph. I put a tomato cage over a couple of my bigger plants just as a temporary measure, but this girl is about 6 inches smaller and I'm just gonna let her tuff it out. Gave the new container a good dose of fluid with food. She won't need anything for a few days now as she recovers and acclimates to her summer home.

This girl is probably due for another topping this week. She's just starting to get going vertically. I think she may be a little over-wet and I want to let her dry out for a couple days. I fed everybody this morning before I ran out for a golf tournament. June 21 >> Tired of looking at this girl lean so I put a little LST into action. One of the reasons this leaning business bugs me is that I grew a clone once that had a lean in it and when she got heavy in the fall I actually had to put a large rock on one side of the pot to keep her from falling over in heavy winds. That was a 5 gallon pot, but it was a nuisance all the same. June 22 >> Pretty damn sure I topped this girl today along with my Wonder Pie's just to get the topping business outa the way for the summer. Mighta been high... but pretty damn sure. 😇 June 24 >> Made some simple structural alterations - because she wasn't done fighting. June 26 >> Somebody has been doing some serious chomping on one of the tops of this girl. Looked so ugly I had to cut away the mostly eaten fan leaves. Haven't found any critters yet, but woe to them if I do. 😠

There's still a bit of damage from something chomping on my girl, but I trimmed off the most damaged fan leaves and she looks a bit better. Hopefully it was a temporary visit. Still letting her dry out a bit. Haven't given her any fluid for a couple days now... maybe tomorrow morning. July 1 >> This girl has definitely got problems in my view of an undetermined as yet nature. Two different kinds of things that bug me, mainly the way leaves curl upwards at the outer edges. Not normal. The other is the two-tone coloring in the leaves between green and blue-ish. At present I'm going to let her dry out completely, then nothing but water, and then possibly switch over the type of nutrients I'm using. We'll see how she responds to drying out and plain water.

I finally decided this girl had dried out enough so I gave her about 1.5 gallons of plain water this morning. Trying to back off on the nutrients (as in NONE) to see if we can get rid of the leaf curling at the edges. The color seems to have stabilized on a more proper shade of green with the new growth.

I think this girl has finally stabilized so I decided to give her some food today for the first time in more than a week... but I decided to go with some Green House Feeding Company powder food instead of my normal Emerald Harvest stuff, which she didn't seem to be liking to much.... maybe. I suspect she's only a week or so away from flowering

This girl is looking a little nicer since I switched her over to the Green House Feeding powder stuff. Gonna travel lightly with the nutrients for awhile and see if we can further improve her condition. She doesn't drink as much as the other girls on the patio.

This girl has finally started flowering, last of the batch of 5 girls on the patio to start throwing those pistils out. She doesn't drink as much as the other girls, and she's the smallest of the lot too... although I'm sure she'll yield plenty when the time comes. I've switched her over to Green House Feeding powder for the time being.

Did a bit of underside pruning this morning to clean up some stuff. This girl definitely doesn't drink as much as my other girls. She seems to have stabilized though after switching over to the Green House Feeding powder and cutting back on the water.

Things are moving along nicely. I've been giving her more fluid in spite of the fact she drinks less than the other girls. Everybody is receiving booster powder now in addition to the hybrid powder from Green House Feeding because they have all entered at least their 3rd week of flowering.

Mother nature decided to turn up the temperature dial this week and we've had two 100 degree days in a row. 105 the first day. I basically doubled the amount of fluid I was giving each girl - and in this particular case Glue Girl was drinking up pretty much all I was giving her - which was up to almost 4 gallons. Freaking hot here - and about 30% humidity. Normally when we get two really hot days in a row the fog comes streaming in and cools the world back down... but I see no fog on our horizon. Looks like at least another week of HOT. I think the girls on the patio might be getting more sleep than me in this heat. With no air conditioning - we need the outside temp to get down in the 50's (normal) to cool the inside of the house adequately. Right now that ain't workin'. Might just sleep outside with the girls if this keeps up.

We're just coming out of a rather historic heat wave around these parts, combined with also unusual dry lightning storms which has caused a boatload of fires and smokey air. Glue girl seemed to handle this period pretty well. She's never been a heavy drinker so I didn't seem to have any problem keeping her hydrated. Everybody on the patio is well into flowering now, and I'm gonna need to harvest one of my Pie's like Monday because the heat pushed her over the edge.

Did some pretty serious pruning this morning trying to cut down some of the interior growth on this girl. Too many popcorn bud branches colliding with each other . The air should be able to get thru her a bit better now. Of the remaining girls on the patio, she'll probably be last or will be fighting with Jack Herer for that honor. I'm trying to dry everybody out after our hot spell when I was over-watering everything. The fog is back and we're closer to normal temps now. Still too much (non-cannabis) smoke in the air. 😎

At this point I'm confident this will be the last beastie harvested this summer. She just seems in no real hurry to fatten up. Never been a heavy drinker. Unfortunately we've just jumped into a serious heat spell. Hit 100 today and will probably tomorrow too, then a couple 90's in the forecast... so the rest of the girls on the patio will probably be pushed over the edge this week. I flushed White Widow today, and the other 2 are probably less than a week behind there.

This girl is finally starting to fatten up like a proper cannabis plant. I was kinda wondering, didn't expect her to last longer than Jack Herer - but that she will. Jack has been flushed and is basically ready for harvest - waiting a day or so to dry out and awaiting space in my shed for drying - once White Widow gets moved outa that space. Hasn't been nearly as hot lately (knock on wood that's not already on fire) - but the air quality has been miserable. The "index" has been "unhealthy" for 3 straight days. Visibility less than 1 mile. You can easily see a considerable amount of ash from the fires somewhere on the fan leaves in my pics here... mind you... this is AFTER I have shaken each branch to knock off the big stuff. This girl will enjoy her bath (after I kill her of course, shhhh...). 😎 Terrible news to find out tonight. Toots Hibbert... one of my favorites... inventor of reggae in many minds... has passed. RIP buddy. 😰 🙏 💪 September 18 >> Flushed this girl today. Should be within a week of harvest I'm gauging. Weather has cooled off.

I'm a day late in diary schedule land but this girl has less than a week left to live so let's not dwell on details. I was playing in a golf tournament yesterday and forgot to take pictures while the sun was up. There's a fair amount of debris visible on the plant now (my last remaining unharvested plant) from all the ash and junk that has fallen outa the sky in the last month. I spent the day trimming my White Widow while watching (listening mostly) to the final round of the US Open. That makes space for me to move Jack Herer indoors for final drying if necessary and THAT will make room to harvest Gorilla Glue whenever she's ready - which will be soon. Just need to dry her out a bit more - but temps are expected to cool down this week.

I decided to pull the plug on this girl in spite of what I might call a lack of amber trichomes in the forest. Kinda a visual thing and me shaking the branches to get a feel for how much weight they're carrying. We're about to enter another nasty little heat wave around here, which will be our third this summer, and I didn't wanna put her thru that, although she has handled the first two better than some of the other girls that inhabited the patio this summer. She was the last to be harvested, so today is kinda like graduation day. Chillin' with a cold beer and watching Farm Aid 2020 streamed live on you tube. I'm a farmer of sorts, but it's worth a donation all the same. ✊ This girl will probably dry fast because she'll be hanging outside and Jack Herer is still occupying the more humane indoor drying space. We'll see how that goes and how hot things get. I'm trying to be lazy and use my TrimBag which really requires "crispy" material to work best. I see crispy on the horizon. ======================================== October 15 >> I was actually able to trim Jack Herer on September 28 which made room to move GG4 inside into a more humane (and slower) drying environment. So after completing the trimming process with the Trimbag I ended up with WAY more trim than bud in this case, and a fair amount of kief too. Planning to make some hash tomorrow during the current heat wave. Final result was 150 grams of buds and 365 grams of trim. October 23 >> After letting this batch of hash dry for a few days we ended up with a nice haul after two wash cycles. Made a HUGE mistake in this batch of hash in that I loaded the wash bag full of trim and ice before I realized the bag was inside out from the last cleaning. DOH! Very costly in terms of efficiency. Needed to unload the whole shebang and reload so there was spillage and contamination of the final hash - requiring some painstaking cleanup. Live and learn, and try not to do that ever again. 160 micron - 0.32 g 120 micron - 1.20 g 73 micron - 6.12 g 25 micron - 8.29 g That's almost 16 grams of hash is spite of my screwups. I've had worse days. 😁 😎