I’m keeping a personal journal with a lot more details of how I’m doing everything, what works, what doesn’t, mishaps, adjustments, etc., etc. but I figured it would be nice to share here as well mostly for pictures of the grow.
I’m attempting to cultivate a Gorilla Cookies seed to harvest. Focusing on one so I can get to know the plant and how she grows.
Took a little over a day after planting for the sprout to show.
1 day after emerging
This was this morning Day 7
Nice. Riding along.
And she’s off! Happy growing 
Day 15
A bit droopy. I thought I’ve been mindful about not overwatering but maybe I actually did overwater. Will be waiting until soil feels and reads completely dry before watering again. Hopefully that’s all this is.
Day 22
She is perking back up and continuing to grow as we enter week 4. might try to work on my lst skills (which is little to none) tonight or wait…we’ll see
You can take those lower leaves. They’re drained and not doing anything for the plant anymore.
@BobbyDigital all 3-4 lower leaves that are mostly yellow? its ok to take them all at the same time?
i almost thought the two bigger ones were getting slightly greener lol
These can go. They probably hit the soil at some point. The plant has used up the nutrients in them and will discard them on its own eventually if you don’t remove them.
They’ve already been replaced by new growth. Dead leaves don’t recover.
ok thank you!
I tried a little more lst since i see all these little bud sights under the fan leaves but not too sure about it. figured it wouldn’t hurt to try and learn by doing but do y’all think i should remove them and just let her grow?
welp since theres no guidance from anyone on this subject im jus leaving her be and see what happens
Day 36
She’s starting to grow taller. I did some pruning last week and took a few of the really large fan leaves this morning. It’s week 6 and I wanna keep pruning haha but I’m pretty cautious about it.
@Lostgirl I think I’ve seen you on the forums talking about growing this gorilla cookies auto strain a bunch before…do you defoliate? If so, how often and when would you stop? Also I was watering this 5gal pot with 1/2 a gallon but increased it to a full gallon but she was droopy all day, perked back up after lights came back on. Is a full gallon too much?
Anywho…it’s been a fun learning process and this flowering stage is exciting to see.
She’s to young to deflotate or lollypop. I wait until after the stretch. You can open her up by pulling down the branches (LST) gorilla cookies as always been a very bushy plant tons of fat bushy leaves too on the buds
You want to keep as many I’ll believe that you possibly can they need them at this stage
In a 5gal pot I normally water a gallon and a half so I can get the runoff of approximately two cups to check the ppms and pH
They’ll droop after watering from time to time as long as they perk up within a couple hours you’re okay.
Your plant looks very healthy
How long is the stretch usually? I have taken a few leaves but I’ll stop doing that. I’ve been doing some LST as well but wasn’t sure if I should continue into week 6. the stems have gotten thick!
The stretch is usually the first two weeks of flower
