Harvest Week The Strawberry Gorilla has officially reached the finish line. After the final flush, it took her another six days to completely dry out the pot, giving her plenty of time for one last fade before harvest. By the end, she looked absolutely beautiful. The buds had stacked nicely along the branches, creating chunky and heavily frosted colas despite some heat-induced foxtailing. What surprised me most was how quickly she finished. For a Strawberry Gorilla, I expected a considerably longer flowering period, but she matured remarkably fast and was clearly ready for harvest. Overall, a very smooth finish to a great grow.

23oct snapped a branch have taken it. Keeps growing well considering I keep breaking things 24oct snapped branch seems to have recovered 25oct watering about 1L twice a day. 1 site is pretty perfectly even going 1 way other half is chaos probably from the few breaks. 26oct took plant out and opened pot to see how roots were going(look fine and heaps of space) did some defoliation also cut the snapped branch for clones and its got 3 tops now. Also turned it around in the tent to change where the light source is. 30oct looking a little sad this morning so didn't feed it this morning might need to dry out a bit. Have tucked most branches back down or tied a few loosely that could reach. Canopy is looking pretty even right now Have a house inspection in a couple days so will have to try hide everything better over the next couple days.

Esta semana creció muy bien, la maceta que había buscado de forma provisoria anduvo muy bien ya la próxima semana voy a buscar la maceta definitiva para floración y arrancaré con un poco más de luz para poder dar un poco más de flores con un poco más de resina muy buena la cepa fuel og de Ripper seed, la verdad que supera mis expectativas día a día muy buen crecimiento muy buen olor excelente resistencia al estrés y buena tolerancia los calores y a las cambio de temperatura.

Sorry for the delay was in a wedding this weekend came home and been trimmin like a dog the past few days and didnt have time to do the update but I'll do another one before tuesday to get back on track. As of Friday sept 6 its day 46. In the video the plants from back left to right are .. Gelato-> Cream Cookies -> Gelato Middle row from left to right are Lemon A.K 1 -> 6 Shooter-> Lemon A.K Front is Tester 5 -> Lemon A.K -> Tester 26

It's below zero outside and my heater can't keep up. Also the humidifier for this tent broke and I can't afford to replace it right now. It's starting to smell like fruit roll ups, so that's nice. Hopefully reaching the end of stretch.

Bonjour à tous , Ont peux dire que maintenant la floraison à commencé pour ces demoiselles , certaines sont encore en retard , en près floraisons je dirais mais ça avance ! Les journee diminue et donc la nuit arrive plus tôt dans la journée Cependant je ne sais pas pourquoi celles ci ne sont pas toutes au même niveau... La semaine dernière je voulais arrêter l'apport en azote mais je vois qu'il y a de grosse carrence donc je repars sur une production de purin d'ortie que je continuerais à apporter en plus petite quantité au long des semaines avenir afin qu'il n'y est plus de carrence.... L'odeur est forte à présent , réellement forte.. 🙌😁 Je continue le palissage / LST tous les 2 à 3 jours et cela deviens de plus en plus compliqué mais j'aime ça 😂🍀 J'ai ajouté de la cendre de bois au pieds de ces demoiselles et continue à leurs fournir des peau de bananes à foison !!!! Je pense fournir plus de photo durant cette semaine en espérant que l'azote apporté aura un réel impact pour épargné ces carrence Petit retour également de la Black Domina 0 qui se porte à merveille dehors avec un très beau début de floraison !! Yoouupiii Voila voilà 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

TH 1Q2025 - Week 7 - Flower 4 
(ON Haze X Original Haze) X Northern Lights #2 “Todd’s Haze” Objective - 8 Female Plants, Topped ONCE @ Flip, 12” when topped - Modified Sea of Green Seeds Wet: 1139PM, 28.2.2025 Germinated: 2.3.2025 Flip: 21.3.2025 Harvest: 77 Days, DATE: 6.6.2025 _________________________________________ Initiate Auto-Fertigation LightDistance: [ 19.5, in] # We’re in STRETCH, ~1.5”/day! 11” Top Canopy - [ ] TM-7: [ 0.125, g] # Prep - [ ] Fertigation: [12, 12, 6] # [Primer A, Primer B, Silica Skin], Dilute to EC - [ ] Photosynthesis Plus: [ 6, ml] __ Fri Apr 18, 2025 TH 1Q25 29:F:4:1 __ Sat Apr 19, 2025 TH 1Q25 30:F:4:2 2000 Watering w/ PCAL 1660 Fertigation: [ 1, gal] RLA: [ 8.5, 4.2, 3.4] PCAL 1660: [ 2.5, ml] # Micronized Powder __ Sun Apr 20, 2025 TH 1Q25 31:F:4:3 Light Distance[TOP]: [ 11, in] # Still Stretching LightIntensity[TOP]: [ 925, µ], [ 40, mol/day] LightIntensity[Main]: [ 801, µ], [ 34.6, mol/day] We’ll Raise EC by 0.1 mS/cm/day till we’re comfortably ~ 2.4 (IFF They’re happy) … Would like to see overall GREEN both darkening & evening out . . . Defoliation - [x] Remove Fan Leaves below Node 7 # Preparation for Understory Lighting - [x] Remove Branches with TOPS bottom 25% of canopy Auto-Fertigation Today - [x] CLEAN Chiller - [x] Vinegar - [x] H202 - [x] High Throughput (Blast the interior AFTER Vinegar & H202) Initial Reservoir Fill: EC: [ 2.0, mS/cm] - [x] 4 Gallons (Dehu, RO, or Distilled) - [x] Primer A & B: [ 54, ml] - [x] Silica Skin GEN 3: [ 27, ml] - [x] Photosynthesis Plus: [ 24, ml] While configuring - Ran 2 Gallons of Feed Before UNPLUGGING. ;-} __ Mon Apr 21, 2025 TH 1Q25 32:F:4:4 - [x] Light Distance[TOP]: [ 9, in] # Still Stretching 1.5 - 2”/Day Reservoir Fill: EC: [ 2.1, mS/cm] - [x] 4 Gallons (Dehu, RO, or Distilled) - [x] Primer A & B: [ 54, ml] - [x] Silica Skin GEN 3: [ 27, ml] - [x] Photosynthesis Plus: [ 24, ml] - [x] SLF-100: [ 20, ml] We’ll take EC to 2.4 mS/cm (Relatively Heavy) IFF They’re all happy with the ‘upgrade’. ;-} Picked up 8 gallons of Distilled from HEB. Used for to refresh tank after last nights flush. Going for NO MORE than 2 Gal/Day. We’ll feed MORE than necessary to get DOWN TO Optimal delivery. Irrigation Timer is set to Every 3 Hours, 1 min flow, four times a light period. __ Tue Apr 22, 2025 TH 1Q25 33:F:4:5 Observation Vibrant, Uplifted, Rockin’ - 1250 runoff, Grew TWO MORE INCHES, Light Distance 6” 1900: Measure Runoff - Amount: [ 1250 , ml] - EC: [ 2.1, mS/cm] - [x] Harvest Dehu - [x] Refresh Reservoir - 2 Gallons - [x] EC: 2.1 - [x] Primer A & B: [ 27, ml] - [x] Silica Skin GEN 3: [ 14, ml] - [x] Photosynthesis Plus: [ 12, ml] - [x] SLF-100: [ 10, ml] __ Wed Apr 23, 2025 TH 1Q25 34:F:4:6  Plants Look GREAT!
Plants stretched 2 - 3” last night. If we don’t stop, we’ll need to supercrop the Exceptions. Cleaned MANIFOLD FILTER - Had GRANULAR feel, on top of a little slime. Will check Thursday. Doubled IRRIGATION TIME from one to two minutes x 5 Irrigations. We had negligible runoff last night. 1900: Measure Runoff - Amount: [ negligible, ml] - EC: [ ? , mS/cm] - [x] Harvest Dehu __ Thu Apr 24, 2025 TH 1Q25 35:F:4:7 - [x] Harvest Dehu - [x] Refresh Reservoir - 2 Gallons - [x] EC: 2.3 - [x] Primer A & B: [ 31, ml] - [x] Silica Skin GEN 3: [ 16, ml] - [x] Photosynthesis Plus: [ 12, ml] - [x] SLF-100: [ 10, ml]

Topped Monday Changed Monday Big defoliation Friday

Day 40-47 (May 31st- June 7th) (Day 41) For the first time in this grow these plants are looking halfway decent. Smell is ramping up too. I finally feel optimistic about this grow. (Day 42) The two jacks and the chunky blueberry are showing early signs of N/Mg deficiencies. I know it’s late in flower but since I’m experimenting with this tent, I’m going to give them one final feeding of nature’s pride 2-5-5.5 (tbsp) along with a teaspoon of oyster shell flour and some rock dust. Everything else I’m going to give a teaspoon of rock dust and oyster shell. There is no way these amendments will fully break down in time to be used by the plant but they could at least use the pH buffering and trace amounts of minerals after their recent leach. Everything but the BAOGC is covered in pistils that don’t really match their bud size. I hope they fill into their pistils because an over abundance of hairs drops the bag appeal like crazy. Over the last few cycles, indoor and outdoor, I’ve definitely learned that different strains and phenotypes mature at different times. Sometimes really radically too. (Day 43) None of the plants are fading at all but they’re still looking good. Black garlic I know should be fading but remains dark green and toxed. I popped a developing seed out of the main bud too. I wonder if that blueberry herm branch pollinated it at all. It seems like plants don’t really like that Destiny dark matter soil by itself. I find it works better mixed with coco or promix 1:1. (Day 44) I’m starting to think I might be mixing up the TWOG and BAOGC. BAOGC took forever to fatten up last round and the 2 phenos I suspected already look done. I was thrown off by the similar terps. The beauty phenos are definitely TWOG (Day 45) God these Jack Herer’s smell good. Nothing but fruity funk. Almost like a vanilla or blueberry yogurt. I would say this stuff has the most overpowering smell in the tent now. I’ve noticed they’re starting to foxtail like crazy. Blueberry#1 too. I’m watering a final low strength feeding of seaweed extract on everything. (Day 47) Everything really fattened up this week. Even at the beginning of the week I was saying I didn’t think they would fill out. Jack Herer and BAOGC specifically made some big gains and nearly doubled their density and still have quite a way to go on them too! The smell has ramped up and finally, everything is looking happy and healthy.

70-77

The first girl is in the second week of Flower I defoliated her as the humidity level is crazy with this El Niño… I also defoliated second girl in veg to prevent botrytis.

_________📅 Week 11 | Day 71 - 77 📅 🌼🌸🌺Flower🌼🌸🌺 __________ 14.07.25 | Day 77🌞 🔸Not much to report for this week the buds are swelling steadily, A&B has the “smallest” buds so far if you were to compare them. The smell isn't very strong yet, but I'm still very pleased with the results 🔸The environment could be a little better, but it's still limited, but when we go into late flowering I really have to do something about the high humidity. _________________________________________________________________________________________ current conditions: 🌡️🔆= 25-26° 🌡️🌜= 20-21° 💨 Hum. = 66% 🔦 PPFD = 900 umol 12/12 🔦⌚DLI = ~ 38 _________________________________________________________________________________________ equipment to use: 💡 Light: 2 x Sanlight Evo 4- 120 on 90% 3 osziling clips fans ⛺ 120 x120 x 180 🍯 Pots: 18 liter pot 🌱 Soil: Bio-Bizz light mix 💊 Nutrients: Advanced Nutrients 💧 Water: Tap Water 0,5 EC _________________________________________________________________________________________

✅0,25g Madame Grow - Amino Canna in 500ml water ✅0,5g Madame Grow - Wild Bloom Powder in 500ml water (Every fertilizer was given separately and on different days!) The whole plant is getting a purplish color.

Animal Mints — Legends of the Frozen North ☃️ Part 1 — The Harvest Begins Before we begin this harvest report properly, we once again want to apologize for dividing this journey into multiple parts. Just like we did with the Legends of the 12/12 Galaxy series, the harvest, drying, trimming, curing, smoke review, and final strain analysis will happen across different weeks and different reports. But honestly… this is the only way we can truly document everything properly. We do not want to simply show the final dry buds and disappear. We want to show the process. The details. The decisions. The mistakes, the observations, the science, the emotions, the beauty, and the philosophy behind the work. Educational growing deserves time and space, and these girls absolutely earned it. So today marks the beginning of the final chapter for our Animal Mints — Legends of the Frozen North. And what a chapter this is. ⸻ From seed to harvest, these girls proved once again why 12/12 from seed continues to fascinate us so much. The morphology is incredibly efficient. Plants stay relatively compact compared to traditional long-vegetative runs, but what they lose in height, they repay with density, structure, resin production, and flower efficiency. The result? Compact giants. Dense towers of medicine. Heavy branches unable to support themselves anymore. Massive flowers held up by yo-yos because gravity simply started winning the battle. And honestly… this room became absolutely beautiful near the end. The senescence was fully setting in. The fade was impossible to ignore. During daytime photos and nighttime photos alike, the room transformed into a palette of autumn colors: * bright yellows, * faded lime greens, * soft oranges, * reddish and brownish tones, * curled leaves, * dry fans, * exhausted but fulfilled plants reaching the end of their biological cycle. And this is important to explain. A lot of growers panic when they see plants fading late in flower, but in many cases, especially near harvest, this is completely natural senescence. The plant understands its lifecycle is ending. Nutrients stored inside the leaves are being mobilized and redirected. Chlorophyll breaks down. Colors emerge. The plant slowly consumes itself while finishing resin and flower production. To us, this is one of the most beautiful moments in cultivation. Not death. Completion. ⸻ As always, we also harvest in darkness. Once the lights go off for the final night… they do not turn back on again. The plants remain in their night cycle until harvest. We personally prefer this approach because the plant is already in its resting metabolic state. The environment is cooler, calmer, and less stressful, and we avoid “waking the plant back up” only to cut it down shortly after. Before harvest, we also stop watering completely. We allow the substrate and the plant itself to dry naturally during the final stage. This helps reduce excess moisture inside the flowers and assists with the beginning of the drying process after harvest. ⸻ And speaking of flowers… These buds are enormous. Absolutely stacked. Rock solid. Frost-covered. Dense from top to bottom. The yo-yos became mandatory near the end because several branches simply could not support their own weight anymore. Every cola looked like it was carrying the entire weight of winter on its shoulders. Animal Mints truly lived up to its name. Frozen flowers. Heavy resin. Cold-looking trichome coverage everywhere. And despite the density, airflow management remained extremely important during the entire run. Defoliation timing, environmental control, humidity balance, and branch spacing all played a major role in making sure these flowers could mature safely without issues. ⸻ Of course, while removing dead leaves and cleaning the plants before hanging them whole for drying… something magical happened once again. Charas. That beautiful living resin slowly started building up on the fingers. And for those unfamiliar: Charas is one of the oldest forms of hashish production in the world. Traditionally associated with India and regions like Malana, charas is made by gently rubbing living cannabis flowers with the hands until the resin accumulates on the skin, later rolled into small resin balls by hand pressure alone. Unlike dry sift or modern extraction methods, charas is made from living plants. The resin is still alive, fresh, fragrant, warm, and incredibly aromatic. In places like Malana, ancient traditions surrounding charas still survive to this day. Entire generations preserved these techniques for centuries, often connected spiritually to Lord Shiva himself, who in Hindu mythology is deeply associated with cannabis. So every time we feel that resin slowly coating the gloves and fingers while handling living plants, it feels less like waste… and more like participating in something ancient. Something human. Something sacred. ⸻ The girls are now hanging whole. Full plants. Slow drying, exactly the way we prefer. For the first couple of days, humidity stays around 45% to help pull initial excess moisture away safely. After that, the environment stabilizes around: * 60% RH * 18–20°C And now begins one of the most important parts of the journey: patience. Over the next 7–10 days, chlorophyll will continue breaking down slowly, moisture will redistribute through the flowers, aromas will evolve, and the entire profile of the medicine will begin transforming. This is where harvest stops… and curing truly begins. ⸻ But this is far from the end. The next reports will focus deeply on: * drying observations, * trimming, * resin collection, * finger hash, * curing methods, * storage, * aromas, * textures, * smoke reports, * and the final strain review itself. And honestly… we still do not know how many parts this journey will require. Maybe two more. Maybe three. Maybe even four. But these girls deserve every detail. ⸻ As always, thank you to everyone following this journey and helping make these projects possible. Thank you to: * Zamnesia for the genetics, * Plagron for the nutrients and support, * F.O.G. for the lighting, * and everybody supporting this educational approach to cultivation. And of course… thank you to every grower, every reader, every silent observer, and every curious mind still exploring this incredible plant with respect, patience, and love. The Frozen North still has more stories to tell. As always, this is shared for educational purposes, aiming to spread understanding and appreciation for this plant. Let’s celebrate it responsibly and continue to learn and grow together. With true love comes happiness. Always believe in yourself, and always do things expecting nothing and with an open heart. Be a giver, and the universe will give back in ways you could never imagine. 💚 Growers love to all 💚

i went to work like 2-3 days not coming home and she is nearly dry out to dead but luckily i came back in time and fix it.

Week 21 (30-11 to ?????) 30-11 Today i harvested her! I removed all the fan leaves and left the buds on the branches to dry. 1-12 Temperature: 16°c to 19.5°c Humidity: 50% to 56% 2-12 Temperature: 14.7°c to 18.5°c Humidity: 54% to 57% 3-12 Temperature: 16.1°c to 18.9°c Humidity: 54% to 59% 4-12 Temperature: 15.5°c to 17.5°c Humidity: 57% to 62% 5-12 Temperature: 15.2°c to 17.7°c Humidity: 60% to 71% 6-12 Temperature: 16.5°c to 17.8°c Humidity: 60% to 66% 7-12 Temperature: 16.4°c to 17.9°c Humidity: 57% to 63% 8-12 Temperature: 16.6°c to 18.5°c Humidity: 56% to 60% 9-12 Temperature: 16.9°c to 19°c Humidity: 57% to 62% 10-12 Temperature: 17.4°c to 19.5°c Humidity: 60% to 64% 12-12 Temperature: 17.9°c to 20.1°c Humidity: 61% to 76% 14-12 The buds felt dry enough and ready to get their final trim before they go into the jar for curing! Trimjail it is! 16-12 Today i finished trimming everything. This is the end result: Dried bud: 116 grams. Dried trim: 23 grams. Thats over 1 gram per watt, and i am very happy with that!! In the curing jar they go! Let me know if you liked my diary and see you all in the next one!