Well here we go into Week Six and the third week of flower has begun! ππ With six weeks of initial growth behind them now, the FastBuds Gorilla Cookies Auto's are doing great and are putting everything into stacking their flowers for these last few weeks!
Thank you for following along this journey with me, especially with FastBud's announcement of this 'Tester Strain #2103's name being revealed as 'Purple Punch'!
Growing these beautiful cultivars is always better with someone to share the experience with....come along and enjoy! ππ
~Grown 100% organic in a 10g 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.
4/5- Week 2 of flower and both girl's are happy, healthy and stacking flowers! Both GC's are done gaining height with the #1 @ 17" and 11" on the #2 PP who's now known as 'Shorty'. Both of these lady's flowers are frosting up beautifully and I'm looking forward to see how they turn out!π
I've switched up their feeding slightly with the addition of Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz and Open Sesame which are given alternately three days a week. In addition, I'm now supplementing their water once a week each with Unsulfured Molasses and Honey @ 2 tbsp/g and 2 tsp/g respectively. The Molasses gives a boost to the microbial colony as well as being loaded with essential minerals and micro-nutrients that the plants love. The Honey really promotes healthy root systems and is a natural anti-bacterial which I've used for decades with tremendous success!
I now have the HLG 225 and UnitFarm UFS3000 hung 18" above canopy which the ladies are digging as am I because the tent temperatures are now perfect and are remaining constant!
Environmentally, the 'daytime' temp's are a steady 77.4 degrees F and drop to 65 degrees F during the 'nighttime'. The RH is staying around 42-46% which I'd like to be higher to lower the VPD but as the girls both appear healthy and happy I'll let it ride! I also put the risers back under both of their pots to ensure that the bottom of the fabric pot gets adequate airflow preventing a possible anaerobic condition from the roots not getting any oxygen, therefore killing them (it only takes 20 minutes of oxygen deprivation to kill cannabis roots! Keep this in mind when watering...don't drown your roots!). ππ
4/7- I checked their pots this morning and they were still fairly heavy and the bottoms were still wet so I skipped watering today. They're both looking MARVELOUS and present a stark contrast of phenotypes with the #1 being tall with wide node spacing, the #2 short & stocky with really tight node spacing...pretty cool!
I plucked a few leaves blocking light on the #2 aka 'Shorty' as she's a bushy little biatch. I really don't have to do anything to the #1 other than water/feed and I turn both girl's pots 1/4 turn each day to give the entire plants plenty of light.
4/9- Well this weeks almost in the books and both Gorilla Cookies ladies are looking absolutely FABULOUS!!! π
All I'm doing at this point is making sure they're watered, fed and turning their pots 1/4 turn twice daily. They are running out their final weeks strong, stacking their flowers and ramping up their trichome production with the #1 pheno (the tall one) being the frostier of the pair. The #1 is also has the strongest smell of the two having a aroma reminiscent of some kind of candy that I can't yet put my finger on!
4/11- Week three of flower has come and gone! The GC girl's are 50 +/- days old now and only have a week or two left in them. I'll be switching them over to straight water for their last week to help them use up any nutrients in them and hopefully bring out some beautiful colors!
Both were watered with 0.50g of dechlorinated water with Fox Farms ChaChing added @ 0.5 tsp/g and Bembe @ 1 tbsp/g, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. 1.2 EC
Well, there goes this week...next week will usher in their final flower development with both girl's going into their fourth week of flower!π
~Thank you so much for following along so far! I hope you'll continue to follow my journey as things will be getting more exciting as the next weeks approach and the flowering gets more intense and the end of this journey draws closer... Grow Strong! ππ~
@Antony_mow, After a week in the jars, I pressed some of the flower which had a 22-24% return of gorgeous rosin. I use the 'sugar trim' for bubble hash and/or the sift screens. π€ͺβ€οΈ
Hey there, Thanks so much for testing our genetics π Let us know if you need any assistance, weβre more than happy to help. Happy Growing !!! π±βοΈπ΄ππΏπ³