Gorilla Cookies Auto (FastBuds)

gj420 7 out of 8 seeds sprouted. Roots look very good and grows fast. Switched from tiny sprouting pots to some a bit bigger. Will be put in 5 or 7 gallon pots when they are stronger.

gj420 I started with 7 out of 8 successfully sprouted Gorilla Cookies seeds, but as with most auto's it is not a great idea to start out in small pots and then replant when rooting is in the early stages. So 2 sadly died and 1 seems to be stunted in growth, but it is still alive and hopefully will catch up up to the others. I do have some Boom Boom spray I might try and use. I will use it when these girls are older and have to go into 5 gallon pots. I know, they should have started out in 5 gallon pots, but unfortunate circumstances forced me to do it like this. I'll start a new grow diary for my next set of FastBuds auto's and they are being sprouted in 5 gallon pots from the beginning. I hope to be able to invest in a Spider Farmer SF-4000 in the near future, but until then these girls will grow under a 125W CFL bulb and a bit of light from a germination light source.

gj420 Switched some things this week. No more 125 Watt CFL and germination lamp. Now these babies are loving life under the new Spider Farmer SF4000 running at 50%. I've also added some vermiculite to the substrate which seems like the plants really love. LST is also being started this week. Can't wait to see what these girls turn into.

gj420 Still growing great. Height hasn't increased much since I've started LST. Next couple of weeks will hopefully show more height and growth.

gj420 The LST have been somewhat successful. Over the next couple of weeks I'll see if it has been worth it. The plants are showing signs of beginning to flower. Quite fast to begin flowering, but I was hoping for more size/height before entering flowering stage.

gj420 These girls are looking good. I still hope they will get more height the next 2-3 weeks. Added a hygrometer this week so changed my humidity, before it was more a guess. They have slowly begun to show signs of flowering. Some might not begin to register it as the flowering period just yet. I know this and I'll therefore most likely be adding more flowering weeks than the strain says it takes.

gj420 Things are slowly beginning to look good. Gained some height this week although I would love to see it gain even more height. Flowering has begun and I might have to edit my earlier weeks, since it is really now it is beginning to flower. My main issue is space and it is going to be difficult balancing it to get the most out of these nice Fast Buds autos. I will be trying them again and giving them the proper start. Even if these have been stunted and stressed a bit in the beginning, they'll still produce a decent amount of flower (I hope).

gj420 Alot of buds on this one. Still a bit on the tiny side, but there is still several weeks to go, before harvest. So hopefully it will gain a couple of inches more or 5. Trichomes are beginning to show, which tells me this will be covered. Even the sugar leaves are beginning to get frosted. I've defoliated a bit, but other than that, I haven't done much but let the girls grow.

gj420 Who doesn't love the flowering period? Especially when your plants really starts flowering... This is the period where growing really gets exciting and fun. You start to see a glimpse of the finished product and the excitement rises. They are beginning to smell a tiny bit, but I'm having trouble deciding just what it smells like. The smell will increase, so it will get easier determining what smell this strain has and how intense it is. The slowest of the 5 sprouted seeds have turned out to be the biggest one and it hasn't even really begun to flower yet, although it is really close. I was NOT impressed by the Green House Seed Company fast flowering fertilizer, so I've switched to BioBizz. I will be using Bio Bloom, Bio Max, Bio Heaven and Acti Vera. All in all, they are looking good and it is nice to see so many top shoots flowering 👌

gj420 First of all, sorry for the picture quality this week. Due to space issues, I had to move these girls into my other tent and it is using a 400W HPS lightbulb. That is why the pictures are different this week. I'll try and get some natural lighting for next week. But they look nice, flowering nicely and are getting really sticky. The smell still isn't that bad, but I figure it'll change a bit over the next 2-4 weeks. I don't think these will finish at the time labeled on the strain, but it will be close. They are really packing on the buds and it is hard to see it is a auto plant. Most auto's have more foliage, but this isn't that bad. It has only had a few minor defoliations throughs its life, so it is easy to handle. You aren't left with a bag of leaves every other week. They feel very sticky and it is easy to see/feel the glue aspect of this strain. But, if I had to choose one surprising aspect of this auto strain, it would would be its trichome production. It is already beginning to show on all leaves, even the bigger sugar leaves. Very few auto's produce this amount of trichomes and that is just one more way this strain resembles a normal feminized strain. Oh, almost forgot. I started out with 5 sprouted seeds and 4 of them have grown at somewhat same pace, but one of them was a straggler. But now it is the biggest one of them all, which show that some of the slow ones can end up being the biggest plants of them all. It is only in early flowering 10 weeks in, which is far from optimal, but it will most likely be the best of the bunch. Can't wait till summer and try it outside 😁

gj420 Harvest time is getting closer. At least for two of the ladies, but I will most likely push them 1 or 2 weeks more. I'm hoping to push the flowering a bit more, but when they are ready, they are ready. They haven't received any nutrients, well not the 2 mature ones. The others have been getting same nutrients as last week. The smell really isn't that bad. I thought it would be worse, but they do have a nice smell to them when you get close. My guess is that they wont produce too much dried material, but they also suffered a bit in the beginning of their life. I will be growing these again and give them much more love.

gj420 2 have been cut down and are drying. The rest has shown issues with pests. Aphids have attacked them so I've been trying to wash those little bastards off the girls. But it seems as if some of the damage has been done. I'm going to see how it develops over the next week or so and if it doesn't improve I will chop these down and put them in trash. But I'm still hoping. Note to self and everybody reading, make sure to leave enough space for proper air circulation!

gj420 My last gorilla cookie and by far the slowest of them all. It will take several weeks before it is done. I had to discard my 2 others due to insect stress. So all in all, this wasn't a good run. 2 plants are finished, but due to the forementioned issues they didn't grow well. But they did give some 50g dried. Looking forward to finishing this diary and start a new when summer arrives.