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Samson420 Samson420
4 years ago
After the success of my 3rd grow I've decided to push myself a bit with the 4th grow. I've ditched the 2x4 tent and finally put a door on the walk-in closet. I've decided to expand my footprint a touch and expand my garden to 6 plants. My light is stated to handle a 5x5 footprint but I thought 8 plants would be a little too much for a number of reasons, and I wanted to leave the girls room to flourish. I bought some 3/4" electrical conduit and a hand pipe cutter from Home Depot, and connected them together with canopy fittings I bought on Amazon to make a "frame" from which to hang my light and fans and run wires. This strain actually replaced the 3rd strain I had originally chose to grow for my personal 6pk Challenge. I received this strain 'sort of' through this wonderful site that we all share. I received a chat message from Sweet Seeds looking for diary submissions to qualify to test some seeds from them. I submitted and was selected. One of the strains I chose was Gorilla Girl. Breeder's stated Flower time is 63 days. I really wanted my 6 pk Challenge to be all different strains, by all different breeders, but wanted to keep all the plants withing a reasonable harvest time of each other and try to keep a nice balance between Indicas & Sativas. The Sweet Seeds seeds arrived just in time to help me round my challenge out as Gorilla Girl replaced my tried and true "control group", Critical Kush, that I have grown in all my previous grows to this point. A shout-out to Sweet Seeds for the love. I hope I do you proud. For me Day 1 is the first day that the plant pops up from the soil/coco, or in my case this grow, the Rapid Rooter. I do not begin to count Week 1 until I have changed the light intensity from Seedling to Vegetative strength. The seed was placed into it's wet paper towel to germinate and the plastic topped container was placed on top of my refrigerator (Friday). On Sunday I placed the sprouted seed into a Rapid Rooter. Initially my plan was to leave the sprout in the Rapid Rooter and leave the rooter in my tray and under the dome on a heat mat...but I didn't have a temp controller for my heat mat and after about 2 hours of leaving them only in the rooters I got paranoid and placed the rooters into some small peat pots with coco for an additional layer between the heat mat. The rooters were soaked in a nutrient solution consisting of 2ml CalMag+ and 2ml each of Cyco Bloom A & B per 1 gallon of distilled water. Yes, I did mean to type BLOOM. The person that designed the feeding system that I currently use believes that in the seedling stage of growth, the Bloom nutrients are more beneficial because the plant is able to use the higher amounts of potassium and phosphorus to develop it's roots faster. She received about 30ml of this mixture per day for her first 7 days. On Day 8 I decided to switch to Grow nutrients. On Day 13 I transplanted from the small peat pot into a 7 gallon fabric pot and watered just down directly under the plant, maybe a little bit wider. I did this because I saw a video where a grower believes that this promotes the roots to grow down, before growing out. According to the video this will give the plant a stronger anchor into the pot. I decided to try this because in previous grows I have seen roots in my plants roots "reach up" where I was seeing roots rise above and then got back down into my coco. I didn't believe that my plants were very well anchored until much later into the grow. We shall see. Day 14 was a Sunday and started Week 1. I setup my CO2 tank and timer and switched my light to it's Veg setting. Each day my circle of watering got a little bit larger until I the entirety of the pot had been watered.
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Ferenc
Ferencweek 7
Beautiful colour+ @Runzamuk
Sweet_Seeds
Sweet_Seedsweek 16
Thank you very much for trusting our strains, and sharing your experience. I see that you have rated our strain with a 6/10. Any notes to tell us? Sweet smokes! -Apolo
Sweet_Seeds
Sweet_Seeds
@Samson420, Thank you very much for your comment. We like to know the opinion of our users, that's why I asked for your opinion. Don't worry about it. 😉 I understand your position, I personally am also very hard on myself and almost always what I do seems too little. Thank you again and enjoy the harvest. Sweet smokes, - Apolo
Samson420
Samson420
@Sweet_Seeds, Thank you Apolo. I really wish I could put my finger on it for you. She tasted good. Was easy to grow. Good yield I felt for a novice grower. Maybe I was just expecting "something else" and it made me bias when I didn't get it. I just never got that certain high that I was looking for, is really the only way that I can explain it. There is really nothing wrong with Gorilla Girl, and I can't say what would make her better. It just wasn't for me...but not to fear, you won't catch talkin' 'bout behind her back I've also been told that I'm being particularly hard on myself this entire last run. I wasn't really satisfied with anything in it. ...going back and re-reading the "How To Rate", I'm still kinda stuck between a 6 & 7 but ultimately landed on 6 because I do very much like at least part of the genetics line (gorilla glue). In the definition of #7 it says "prefer a different type of genetics"...but then it also says "had minor problems growing it", which I did not. I really wanted to like her. I really did. Maybe I just had a bad run. But unfortunately this run she was just a 6...but rest assured she will rise again sometime in the future as I still have 3 magic beans.
RastaMouse
RastaMouseweek 1
Good luck with the grow bro 🍻
Samson420
Samson420
Thank you @RastaMouse. Much Love!
Sweet_Seeds
Sweet_Seedsweek 8
This is going great!😋 Good luck! Sweet smokes, -Apolo
Sweet_Seeds
Sweet_Seedsweek 1
Thank you very much for sharing a new diary with one of our strains. 😊 We hope you enjoy it. 😋 Sweet smokes, - Apolo
Earthling37
Earthling37week 16
Hi! Nice choice of strain, im currently growing the same strain in organic living soil to get maximum taste out of my flower. What do you think of growing this strain so far? Has it been without problems or have you encountered some issues with the strain in particular? Anyway, have a great day and happy growing. 😎 🌱
heizen
heizenweek 9
Nice grow mate, plants are looking good, keep it up, imma follow this one upclose.
Sweet_Seeds
Sweet_Seedsweek 3
They're showing some amazing growth, nice one & keep it up