![]() By the way, the girl had started to smell strongly already by late veg. Everything – calyxes, little sugar leaves, and even large fan leaves – was strewn with trichomes as thick as snow, and the smell was magnificent. The buds were nicely stacked up, and they filled out tremendously in the last couple of weeks. In soil, it takes twice as much time.īy day 63, Gorilla Cookies Auto by Fastbuds was ready. Another thing that I like about growing in coco is that you don’t need more than a week to flush your cannabis to perfection. In the final week, I only gave my girl plain water and Flawless Finish by Advanced Nutrients to get rid of all those built-up salts. I was turning these auxiliary lights on for 2 hours every day, while my full-spectrum lights were running for another 16 hours. They say using FR lights leads to stretching, but they also have UVB diodes that are supposed to make buds more resinous and potent. Probably one of the reasons that the stretch got out of hand was me using supplemental lights that were rich in reds, including the far red. As for the central colas (there were a few), I probably should’ve put them under the net somehow because they would grow very tall – up to 130-140cm. The buds indeed would become so big as to strain the branches to the point of breaking them, so the ScrOG was very useful. ![]() ![]() Moreover, I installed a ScrOG net – not so much to train the canopy as to provide support for side branches at the later stages of flowering. Of course, I also changed the nutrients to formulas that are rich in phosphorus and potassium and rather low in nitrogen. For ripening, I dialed down my LED again to just 600 par. I used my PPFD meter and kept the intensity of light at 660 par in veg, 900 par in early flower, and about 1000-1280 par in mid to late flower. My goal was to prevent too much stretching while also not stunting my autoflowers’ growth. I didn’t shower my flowering plant with maximum light right away but instead used the dimmer and controlled the distance from the plant tops. The first thing I did when budding began was to change the light to my new SpaceLED with its maximum capacity of 400W. It helped ensure good growth and bud development and safeguarded the plant from any mold issues. I used a humidifier to raise the RH level to a comfortable 65% in the seedling stage, then let it drop to 60% in late veg and to 50-55% in flower. I also made sure that it was neither too cold nor too hot in the tent (with the temps hovering around 24-25☌ and sometimes climbing a bit higher), and that the temperature drop at lights-out wasn’t too radical – about 5 degrees. I started with just 400ppm, then slowly raised this number to 650ppm throughout veg, and when my Gorilla Cookies Auto started flowering and got really hungry, I upped the dosage all the way to 1300ppm in the last two weeks before the final flush. I kept the concentration of nutrients rather low at first, which is not only the safest but also conducive to the weed’s rapid growth. I let pH fluctuate between 5.8 and 5.9 in veg and climb up to 6.2 in flower. I learned long ago how important it is to control the environmental conditions and nutrient solution characteristics. Carefully Controlled Conditions Make All the Difference My Gorilla Cookies Auto would go on filling the better part of the grow tent and bring me more bud than I could’ve hoped for, but I achieved all that with just a 5-liter bucket. The beauty of coco is that the root ball stays relatively small in volume, but it gets water and nutrients several times a day so it can feed a very large plant. Thrive Bloom to give the root system the benefits of microbial life. For that, I was giving her GHE FloraNova Grow and Flora Micro. You all probably know that cannabis needs a nitrogen-rich diet in veg – with much less phosphorus and potassium – as well as all the micronutrients, of course. ![]() I won’t bore you with the exact details of feeding her. It would be a hassle to reach under all that foliage to hand-water her, but, as I said, she was getting her food and drink from the automatic drip system. My Gorilla Cookies Auto was insanely leafy and branchy. I didn’t let my three ladies stretch – by keeping my LED light at a short distance (first 45cm and then 35cm) – and gave them 18 hours of full-spectrum lighting a day. I topped her in the second week, and the two new tops started to develop right away, as if that had been the plan all along.
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