First pistils came through this week! Switched the 'bloom' switch on the light to double LED count and add the red to the spectrum. Defoliated lower growth again on day 45 before noticing the pistil 48 hours later. Spotted a nutrient burn, and that I haven't been watering until enough runoff so possible nute/salt buildup? I also realised the plant was drooping before feeding so going to increase feed volume to keep the coco more moist. A nice amount of main colas considering her rough childhood. Fed no nutrients from day 47-49, just feeding 5.8pH water to reduce salt content. Water was 60PPM at 5.8pH and after 8L still got 500PPM runoff. Definitely need to change feeding method. Thanks for the tips to those who answered!

First grow was better than second. But I satisfied and very very happy with the results of harvest!

Got a new light this week, it's basically a HLG 260 R-Spec except locally manufactured using the same Samsung LEDs. Big Mumma got her 60x60cm tent today and will go in there under one Viparspectra 300W blurple (130w from the wall). I trimmed her, super cropped her main stem and added a scrog net in preparation of flowering her in the next couple of days. Because my other plants were getting up past 75cm after 7 days of flower (100cm is my absolute max) , I decided to supercrop the canopy back down to about 60-65cm - it was pretty scary and I definitely broke the outer stem on some of them. Also gave them a good trim. Fortunately most bounced back strong the next day which are the most up-to-date photos you see (17/4/20).

11/24: Looks like the Emerson Effect/14 hour photoperiod is working...stretching has commenced.👍 11/25: Had to raise the lights 5 inches today. The big Sucrose Overdose and a Zkittlez are really stretching. I'm using platforms of varying heights for the shorter plants to keep the canopy level. 11/27: Raised the lights another 5 inches and fed today. 11/28: Raised the lights another couple inches this morning...now, I'm thinking I should have topped them...that's a foot in about 3 days...doh!😏 They're already starting to show signs of budding up, so I'll just have to do some supercropping and tie down the taller mains. 11/29: Raised the lights a couple more inches and supercropped the tallest Sucrose Overdose.

this week I was a lil happy because I pollinate my C4matic with a Male pink kush the feminizing spray tiresias mist didn't work the way I thought it would. thank God I had a Male coming up in my outdoor garden...I can already see seeds a little more than I expected, for some reason I only wanted to pollinate 1 bud but got seeds on the main and a few lower buds still happy for that will update images .

7/26: Last defoliation for about 4 weeks. Looking good and thick. LST is basically over and I'm going to let this plant do what it wants from here on out. I pulled some stems away a tad more so they grow out of any shadows. Bam! 7/27: Added my Google Home Mini so the girls can listen to classical all day long. 7/28: Pistils are tiny on plant 1, but the other 2 are growing rapidly. 7/29: Ordered a 600w ViparSpectra to add to the grow tent, can't wait. Also ordered some sticky traps. The gnats are not really affecting the plant, (never enough to cause major problems) but I just hate them. They seem to be coming from my shop-Vac (for run-off). I let it dry out, as it never stays full of water. I assume they are attracted to it regardless because of the moisture. I have now moved the shop vac further away from the grow tent and will have sticky traps installed 7/30. 7/30: Day 33. Going well. They love Mozart. Pistils FINALLY on every plant. 7/31: Got the new 600w ViparSpectra in, it's bright... this was a good idea. 600w @ 24inches, 450w @ 20inches 8/1: Pistils on all plants. Pre-flower stretch is real. The new light changed everything. Plant 1 taking half a gallon now.

She recovered very well from last week training and lollipop. I hope this technique gives me good results, is looking promising so far, I decided to lower the nutrient amounts to half the recommended from advanced nutrients since I burnt my pineapple chunk a little.

In the dark for 48 hours on day 89, chopped day 91. After full dry and cure I ended up with 80 grams dry yield buds. She out stretched my tent (60") twice, still yielded very well. Flower came out as tight, slightly dark purple to green flower with orange hairs. Smells earthy, herbal, nothing overwhelming. Smokes great, flavor is very similar to the nose earthy, slightly herbal with a gassy finish faintly present. Feels fairly potent, definitely a heady high, and unfortunately munchies induced activity increased. Overall a great first run with Zamnesia seeds autoflower, if and when running again SCROG almost seems required.

🌱 GROW LOG: Gorilla Cookies Auto (x3) ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ MONDAY 25/08/25 - DAY 33 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 24°C / 22°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 65% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.0 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 0.3 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 21% 💡 Light: 75% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 700 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 480 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ TUESDAY 26/08/25 - 💧WATERING - DAY 34 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed →Defoliated some leaves 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 24°C / 22°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 65% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.0 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 0.3 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 21% 💡 Light: 75% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 700 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 480 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ WEDNESDAY 27/08/25 - DAY 35 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed → Notices Calcium Deficiency 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 24°C / 22°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 65% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.0 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 0.3 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 21% 💡 Light: 75% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 700 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 480 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ THURSDAY 28/08/25 - 💧WATERING - DAY 36 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed → Added extra calcium to water 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 24°C / 22°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 65% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.0 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 0.3 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 21% 💡 Light: 75% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 700 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 480 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ FRIDAY 29/08/25 - DAY 37 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 25°C / 24°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 60% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.2 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 0.3 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 21% 💡 Light: 75% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 700 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 480 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ SATURDAY 30/08/25 - 💧WATERING- DAY 38 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 27°C / 25°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 59% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.3 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 0.3 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 21% 💡 Light: 75% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 700 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 480 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ SUNDAY 31/08/25 - 💧WATERING- DAY 39 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed → Defoliated some leaves → Very early Signs of flowering 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 28°C / 26°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 58% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.3 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 0.3 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 21% 💡 Light: 75% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 700 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 480 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🌿 OVERVIEW ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ The Gorilla Cookies Auto trio cruised through a steady week! 🌱 From Monday to Sunday (Days 33–39), all stats stayed in range with no issues. Watering happened on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, with light defoliation on Tuesday and Sunday to keep things tidy. Temps ranged from 24–28°C (day) and 22–26°C (night), humidity held at 58–65%, and VPD was 1.0–1.3. Lights stayed at 75% @ 25cm, delivering consistent light intensity, and CO₂ remained stable. 😎 Lessons: → Stability is Key: Consistent environment and watering kept plants happy—no surprises! 🌿 → Light Defoliation Works: Occasional leaf removal maintained airflow and light exposure. ✂️ → Monitor Trends: Slight temp and humidity shifts didn’t disrupt growth, but stay watchful. 👀 Takeaway: Smooth sailing with stable conditions and routine care. Keep the steady vibe and light pruning going! 🚀

This grow started on October 20, and today is December 26, which puts the plants into Week 9 of the overall cycle. The last defoliation and pruning was done around December 16. After that, I made a conscious decision to stop cutting and stressing the plants. Earlier in veg I definitely over-stressed them — too much training, too many interventions. In hindsight, that slowed things down instead of helping. From this point on, the goal was to let the plants recover, grow freely, and build momentum in order to reach the flowering stage as smoothly and quickly as possible. Lesson learned for future grows: less stress fewer unnecessary cuts more patience Sometimes the hardest part is not touching the plants at all, especially when your hands are itching to train and optimize everything. Week 9 is about recovery, structure, and preparation for flower. Next week marks the start of flowering.

Big healthy plant for the most part, but the flowering just won’t kick in! This is the week that says she’s running behind or that she’s going to be on a cocaine diet till the end? Need some bulk, it’s week 8 already. I don’t like my girls fast anyways, so I’ll be a patient gent. Day 51: Early AM: It seems that the flowers are starting to fatten up at a familiar rate now. Stretch is definitely over to boot. Feels like a week or so behind my other Auto grows, but I am gathering from the peeps on GD that grow times can be all over the place with Autos; even with seeds front the same plant. I won't be a Debbie-downer, but I cant help but think what this thing would have done in a bigger space. I left her alone a couple days ago as her stretch slowed noticeably. A pluck here and there moving forward, but that's about it for the sadistic stuff. Day 51: Late Afternoon: She's about to take off in the flower it feels. 6 hours passed, and I was like "oh, hello there!" If nothing goes too crazy, I'm hoping she'll be a good one regardless of her 3.8 sf living quarters. I never did move the top shelf, so the light is less than 8 inches from the canopy. I'll keep an eye on the "crispy effect" out of complete laziness and fear of dropping the light on the plant! Tallest branches are around the perimeter and still hitting their DLI. The center/down the plant is getting blasted by the light, so I suspect about 6 or so runners to hit the canopy and hang out with the FIM family in the next week or so? Day 51: Evening: Bigger bucket = bigger plant in hydro? One heck of a root mass going on in her trough. I tried pushing the roots to the back of the bucket so I could ph without getting roots directly. Nope! That bucket is filled with roots, and its an 8 gallon bucket. I would have never thought an auto would have enough time to grow into an 8 gallon bucket. I was banking on some extra nutrient volume, so I could go out of town for 4-5 days. Hard to say on bucket size though, I have grown 10 foot tomato monsters in 3 gallon Ebb/Flow pots so maybe she would have grown the same in a 5 gallon bucket? I don't think that much root volume could grown in an 5 gallon bucket, so bigger bucket = bigger plant here? Things that make you go "hmmm..." Day 53: A lot of undesirable undergrowth that blew up during stretch. Like a ton of it, but I’m done messing with her. Took out the top shelf and reconfigured exhaust. What a pain. I didn’t drop the light but the IP cam took a nose dive on a branch. Now the light is about 12-14” from canary instead of 6-8'. She started to get some light burn so I had to do the deed. Wider IP camera view with added distance so that's a plus! Plant is very happy at 550-575ppm. 600ppm seems to be the number without burning plants? Humidity, temp, and ppm AND light distance in check. Raising the light opened the focal point of this light quite a bit; especially in the center where the PPFD was over 2500 at the center and light less than 8 inches from the canopy. Feeling good. All is in check with some room to grow. She will gain another 2" in height I presume through flower. Day 54: The jury is out of this light. I hits my dli from veg to harvest with it's fixed position design, but wondering if 50watts more would have been the number. I'm going to keep the light in there to keep the data flow congruent to its original design. I hit my DLI right now from the top of the canopy to about 10-12" down the plant. Lighter specs from my last grow, but its hard to tell what is getting what once you leave top of the canopy. Hopefully it will suffice! I moved the light a few inches closer as my DLI was getting light in some of the corners/perimeter. She right 10-11" and is about as good as she is going to get given150watts. I am realizing that 200 watt is probably the optimized wattage here if some canopy penetration is desired, but light these dimensions are not plentiful[. 250 watt and that would be max with managing heat and exhaust sound levels. 250 watt would accommodate a fix state design no problem. I hate to change the light variable but I only have the luxury of one-at-a-time grows, so everything counts on some levels. Been using the PAR meter on and off throughout the day. Penetration needs to be about 25% stronger. Its a perfect light for your average auto grow, but if these results repeat themselves a 250 watt is probably in order. I am making the executive decision to install a 250 watt bar light. I found one with a small footprint at 240watts. Hard find, specs are more than adequate for 4 sf. Will maybe get down a bit deeper but things are looking really crammed with the bottom half. It is PACKED with bud sites and likely not enough light. Questioning the light change, but will definitly thin some lower stuff and "officially" let her be. Since in bumped up the CalMag to about 1.5 ml/gal the reservoir has been running ph equilibrium for 6 days now at 600ppm. I’m guessing this deficiency was driving down ph instead of the usual up/equilibrium in week 7. My first auto to eat at 600ppm for a week with no tip burn. She looks fit, I’ll keep her diet here as the max. I have never cut MicroGro out completely in a grow before. I have been faithful to GH 7 part series since for long time. This grow I took the GH feeding chart and worked backwards to a ppm level I found on the web to be an acceptable range for Autos. These ratios have traditionally been acceptable and without issue. Beautiful plants every time. On the last two runs with this concocted feeding schedule Cal/Magic was very light until week 7, and exactly when I started to see rust spots, etc. in this grow. After a 2ml/gal dose of CaliMagic plus addbacks on watering, that issue disappeared overnight. I mean zero issues with any new or progressing growth. Here's the take away with this. Although CalMag issues are easy to spot and resolve, I did learn is that in both runs they HAD A PERSISTANT DROP IN PH IN MY RESERVOIR in late veg/tranistion. Another wards, if you PH is dropping and your ppm are not doing anything, it very well could be a CalMag deficiency. An indication know before the leaves start getting spotted, etc. I guess if one were perceptive enough, you could resolve this issue as it happens, and never see the effect on the leaves? On this current run, as soon as I dosed the bucket good with Cal/Mag and kept my add/backs a 1.5/ml/gal the PH locked in big. Going on 7 days at 600ppm, 6.0 and the ph is steadily rising. Maybe another bump in ppm. No sign of tip burn yet, why the heck not!:) Not really the expected progress this week but she may just need time. I don’t think she’ll really bulk up until the end of week 9 / week 10. New light to arrive Tuesday but not sure a stronger light will get much further down. It’s almost a roadblock to get beyond the main tops and they are getting well more than they can handle light wise. Bigger light may only mean more heat.

For now they are growing without any problems.

Beginning 11th week flower going to give her another 5-7 days Any day now!

It's Day 54 Week 08 0f Flower For My 02 Kombucha Cream by atlasseed . And For My Snow White and SpliffStrawberry by Spliff Seeds Amsterdam . So Today I Started My Day By Checking My Tricomes On My 2 Kombucha Cream. The 02 Where Looking Fully Milky So My 02 Kombucha Cream Got Flushed TODAY with Some Flawless Finish by Advanced Nutrients . The 2 Received 80ml of Flawless Finish mix with 1OGallons Of Water Ph at 6.0. Tomorrow they will get Rinse off with ph balance water. Yesterday I watered my Snow White and SpliffStrawberry Ppm where down to 100ppm. All 4 Plants will get a nice ice bath in a few days. My plan is to check the Tricomes on the SpliffStrawberry In a few more days she was still Milky when I check her yesterday. I will chop her down next weekend. And the rest will get the chop at 30%Amber Tricomes. Happy Growing Growmies 🤘🏻

COntinued to apply small amounts of pressure with LST but aside from that, letting her do her thing. Had to leave her for a few days and she got dehydrated, after a feed she perked up again but she's now started sucking all the nutes out of her lower growth. She has a lot so I'm hoping it doesn't affect the harvest. Would have preferred this to begin with my flush. For more content on all my grows please check out my Instagram! Link is on my profile!

my dry and cure style is this: 4 days of hanging upside down to get water activity lower to around 0.6 in 50% humidity and 26 C temp (i know its a little high but we are in a hot summer right now and i cant get it lower even with air conditioner) and then after 4 days of drying i remove leaves and stalks, trim buds and move them to jar for the rest of their life :D . and in the first 4 days of curing i open the jar door and let hem get some fresh air in the jar for about 5 minutes and close the jar door again, after 4 days of curing like that buds are smokable but they will get better as they getting cured about 1 month. buds are one of the hardest as fucking rocks type of buds! very dense , compact , sticky , smelly , amazing at every aspect growing stage was 56 days and flowering stage was 75 days total (harvested tops at day 64th) the total weight of dry buds was : (plant #1 & #3 top buds 56 G + lower buds 22 G ) 78 G + (plant #2 top buds 47 G + lower buds 18 G ) 55 G + (plant #4 top buds 120 G + lower buds 67 G ) 187 G = 367 G