FIRST GROW: Gorilla Cookies

sugar_leaf_daddy FIRST WEEK: 18/02 - germinated seeds in soil (directly in 3 gallon air pots, no transplant) 19/04 - 12 hours and 2 plants already breaking the surface - 18 hours and the 3rd one comes out 20/04 - last seed breaking surface (probably the same sleepy seed that was slower than the others with its taproot?) 24/04 - looking nice and healthy - tallest plant is approx 4cm (day 5 of vegetation), smallest almost 3cm (day 3 or 4 of vegetation) - between the first 2 seeds breaking surface, one plant (called 1st) developed quite faster than the the other (2nd) which ended up having same growth speed of the 3rd one (roughly a day behind schedule), the "sleepy" seed is plant number 4 (or 4th) and it clearly looks 2 days behind. When I look at plant 1, I basically know how plant 2 and 3 will look tomorrow and plant 4 after tomorrow... 25/04 - 1st plant is the tallest, followed by 2 & 3, 4 is the smallest but all plant have the same grow rate (just shifted by a day or 2)

sugar_leaf_daddy everything running smoothly, plant 1 is literally growing before my eyes! every time I check on my babies, I see new bits developing! Just adding water (300ml every other day) and letting nature do the rest... tallest plant is now 10cm (4 inch) and some of the the top leaves stems are turning purple already! it looks soooooo good and healthy!!! We're just 2 weeks in! Can't wait for the next developments!! probably next week I'll start adding some nutrients. I might even leave one plant on water only to check any noticeable differences.

sugar_leaf_daddy at the end of week 3 plant n.1 is over 16cm tall! few top stems are already purple... still to be seen if due to genetics or because of stress. plant looks healthy anyway... on day 16 I've started with the basic trio feeding + half ml of candy and half ml of Cal Mag in half litre watering per plant every other day. I have deliberately left one of the four plant on water only, as a little experiment to see what the difference will be at harvest (provided I will successfully harvest all four plants...). finger crossed and looking forward to next week for the beginning of LST! Low stress training with my gorilla cookies that would be 22-23 days old...😍

sugar_leaf_daddy My girls are looking fine! started with some gentle LST on day 22 (Day 1 week 4). They are flexible and taking the training with no problem. I should mention that I had previously watered the plants - 12 hours ahead - so that the plants were full of water and really flexible. now the plants height has gone back to 12cm as they are now forced to grow horizontally... I'm keeping the nutrients trio plus bud candy and cal-mag. Fan leaves are getting huge, I'll be doing some defoliation soon as the plants are getting quite bushy. Some pre-flowering already happening at day 27 (white shoots from the nodes!!!). How can't you just love auto? They grow so freaking fast!!!! I'm so happy!

sugar_leaf_daddy My girls are growing! I'm in love... first week of flowering... more training (LST)... just noticed few yellow tips on some leaves, probably due to a bit too much nutrients. This week, therefore, a bit of flushing with just water and bat guano. 😎

sugar_leaf_daddy Still holding back on nutrients (better safe than sorry!) just 12grams of brown sugar and 55-60grams of epsom salt in 3.6 litres of water. Still doing LST (I enjoy it so much!!!), generally 10-12 hours after watering my girls... and some defoliation along the way (so they might look less bushy compared to last week photos..) Trichomes exploding in all flowers and so many sugar leaves already!!!! 4 more weeks to harvest, 6 more weeks to taste-test them!!!! 😍

sugar_leaf_daddy still going "light" with feeding my girls... somehow I have developed a preference to less aggressive/concentrated nutrients. Epsom salts, brown sugar and seaweed are doing wonders! one has even started to develop some purple 😍 coloration on her top sugar foliage close to the frosty buds... These plants are first and foremost something in between a vanity project and a labour of love... of course I will be happy with a hefty yield, but that's not my main priority. I will keep experimenting, keep dialling in watering/feeding and see what happens 😎

sugar_leaf_daddy my girls are getting frostier and frostier!!! Couldn't be happier for the results so far... when they say "easy to grow" and big yield, they were telling the TRUTH!!!!💪😎👍

sugar_leaf_daddy moslty flushing with ph balanced water and some brown sugar... It is crazy!!! in true "hybrid" fashion, my 4 girls are now getting to the last leg of the cycle and they are all unique! Coming from the same sealed bag, same germination process, same medium, same watering/feeding and YET, one it's prematurely ready to be cut (purple leaf development for couple weeks already and their fading already for a week or so, trichomes getting cloudy and some (nearly a third) turning amber already!!! two more are super frosty and have the classic yellow and orange pistils coming out the buds/flowers, they also smell very lemony citrous "classic Amsterdm"... to complete the happy bunch, the 4th seedling/sibling has more of a yellow and white pistils coming out its buds giving more a snowy, frosty almost albino vibe, and the freakiest bit is that it smell distinctively much sweeter, the scent of GRAPE is so strong!!!!😎 I will probably put the early purple one in its 48hours of darkness tomorrow or the day after that (over a week earlier than the others)... like a box of chocolate, you never know what you gonna have... or something like that!

sugar_leaf_daddy the time for some beauty shots has come! The girls are ready and frosty! I will give them a 48 hours of darkness and I will cut them! And then the waiting game will begin... 2 weeks of slow drying as I cut the whole plant together and I will do dry trimming. I estimate these girls to be over 200gr each (whole plant) which should approximately give me around 30gr after drying and curing... not bad at all for a rookie at his first grow ever!!!!😎

sugar_leaf_daddy I'm really happy for my first grow ever! I have learned so much! Balancing the nutrients in the medium and in the feeding/watering is quite tricky at the beginning... I can't wait to start another cycle to up my grow game!!!😎