FastBuds Gorilla Cookies Auto

Well here we go into Week One of Veg! 👏😎 With a week of initial growth behind the #2 pheno and just under a week for the #1, both FastBuds Gorilla Cookies are doing great and sprouting their 2nd and 3rd sets of leaves which is such a beautiful sight to see! Thank you for following along this journey with me! Growing these beautiful cultivars is always better with someone to share the experience with....come along and enjoy! 😎🙏 ~Grown 100% organic in a 5g fabric pot with Mother Earth 70/30 Coco/Perlite medium amended with 2tbs/g Down To Earth 4-4-4 / 2 cups/g Earthworm Castings / 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Flower Girl 2-8-4 and 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Bat Guano. ~24hr light cycle during germination / 19/5 light cycle for Veg & Flower ~Straight water ph'd @ 6.2-6.8 when needed, top dressed every 3-4 weeks and weekly Compost Tea's. 3/1- I'm watering both girls twice daily with de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 74-76deg. 200ppm. Today I added 2.5ml/g of Botanicare CalMag+ to their watering. I'm using a pump sprayer with a hose and wand attached that has a fine spray head on it now. When I water I am just giving enough right now to keep the soil moist, not wet, in the upper half of their pots as their roots haven't developed and penetrated to that point yet. As they mature and their root systems develop into the monsters I hope for, I'll increase the amount of water they receive to ensure that the microbial colony thrives. Tent temp's are maintaining 78-80deg during the light cycle and 72-74deg for their 5 hour dark period. RH in the 4x4 range from 47-55% and the co2 level from 460-530ppm. I've got the SunSystems 315 LEC hung all the way up @ 46" now but will be slowly dropping it as the girls get bigger and can tolerate the additional intensity without getting stressed. 3/3- Watered today with .25g each de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 with Fox Farms Wholly Mackerel added to give a little nutrition to the microbes. I'll follow up this weekend with some added unsulfured molasses to give the microbial colonies some more goodies to feast on. Gotta keep the microbes happy as they are responsible for providing nutrition for the plants, take care of your microbes and they'll take care of the plants! The SunSystems LEC 315cmh is now @ 42" above the plants and the tent temp's are maintaining 78-80 degrees during the light cycle and 68-74 degrees for their 5 hour dark period. RH in the 'FastBuds 4x4' range from 47-55% and the co2 level from 460-530ppm. Both girls are healthy and are getting taller by the day. The #2 pheno is squat @ 1 1/2" and the #1, which is 3 days younger, 2" tall. 3/5- Both of the FastBuds Gorilla Cookies are healthy and starting to pick up their growth! They are both in the process of sprouting their third 'true' set of leaves which will have five 'fingers' on them. I went ahead and added 5ml/g of Fox Farms Wholly Mackerel to their water which was de-chlorinated and ph'd to 6.4 @ 76deg. 400ppm. I'm giving them .25g twice a day keeping the medium moist all the way through to the bottom of the medium. I've found that if the roots encounter 'dry' medium it rapidly pisses off cannabis cultivars, ESPECIALLY autoflowers, so we're not going to explore that scenario....we're staying moist, not wet! 😁 I anticipate, based on their current rate of growth, that they'll really be taking off going into the latter part of week two going into week three. I'd really like to see these girls veg for at least 30-40 days before starting to flower, which will result in some huge cultivars, but from past experience with FastBuds strains (they're not called FastBuds for nothing!) they generally begin flowering around Day 21 give or take....we'll have to see what happens won't we?😎🙏 3/7- Well, Week One of veg is here and gone and both of the FastBuds Gorilla Cookies girl's are loving life! Both girls have great color and the #2 pheno, even though three days older than her sister, is quickly catching up to her sibling, who's @ 3" in height. I've added nightly foliar feeding with Fox Farms Flower Kiss added to their schedule and they are loving it! Their water intake continues @ 0.5g of de-chlorinated well water daily which is ph'd to 6.4-6.5 @ 74deg. after any additives (Fox Farm Wholly Mackerel, Botanicare CalMag+) are mixed in using either Alchemist PH Down or General Hydroponics PH Up which are diluted in 2 cups of water before being added to the remaining water. This dilution before addition prevents any chemical reaction that might occur from adding the PH Up/PH Down straight into the water that has nutrients in it, which would possibly have negative affects on the plants. If their growth continues through next week, as I'm anticipating, I will most likely begin LST at least on the #1 phenotype, possibly both....we'll see! 😎🙏 Thank you for tagging along so far! Things should be getting more interesting as the coming weeks approach! I'm excited...are you? See you next week! 😎👍