Gorilla Glue #4 – Day 31

It would appear I have three confirmed females and one is too small to know yet. But the three others are all forming large leaves, and responding well to the increased light. Once I see the three bigger ones start to flower I am going to swap out my metal halide bulb for the high pressure sodium kind to help increase flowering yields. But right now I think they are still in their vegetative stage and better off with the light they have for the moment. The light they have now will help them form a shorter but more dense canopy, but the high pressure sodium will encourage them to stretch. So I am waiting until they have buds before that happens, and it is important to keep an eye on their pre-flowers and wait for them to start forming into buds. Any day now they should be flipping over to flowering though. Appears it may have already started on the biggest of the bunch.

Strain:	Gorilla Glue #4
Dominance:	60% indica/40% sativa
Nutrients used:	Happy Frog Soil / Ocean Forest soil. Big Bloom, Grow big, and Bush Doctor Flowers Kiss. All FoxFarm products.
Lineage:	Chem's Sister, Sour Dubb, and Chocolate Diesel
Current growing stage:	Vegetative
Current plant age:	31 days old
Sex:	Auto regulars
Location:	Central Virginia

Misting them a few times a day was recommended by @futuremind and I am really glad I took his advise, my plants are doing great and I think it has something to do with the water added to the leaves. I have also introduced an foliar fertilizer at night every week or so.

I have lowered the netting a small amount, so the taller of the plants can reach. I was worried with its increased height it would fall over and damage the stem. So bringing the net down helped a lot in stabilizing the taller of the bunch.

The second tallest should be through in the netting in a day or two.

The third has some time to grow, but it seems happy as well.

And lastly the late started seed, it is quite far behind compared to the others.

Though I am happy with the overall progress, I am seeing the females form their pre-flowers and soon they will start budding on their own being a auto flowering strain.

Curious to see how large the buds will get, I feel like these plants are kind of small for a month old. But its possible they will grow a lot more coming soon.

I think the new soil is working out really well for them.

And giving them more light has helped, I was worried that they were getting too much. But now I think I have it dialed in.

For now I will wait for the buds to start forming, and then its time to change out the light bulb for a different kind that gives the flowering stage of the plant more of what it needs light wise. I am also back to adding C02 to their environment as well. Want to give these autos everything they need to grow big. I have gone really light on the fertilizer on this grow as their new soil has much of what they need. But I am still giving them plant tea and soon other things to help them get all the stuff they need to grow big and strong.

Before I close up the tent, I give them a good misting. And come back a few hours later to give them more. I have read when the humidity is kept high, they can absorb more water through the leaves. Which is the case as my tent is kept at around 60-70% humidity.

Previous posts on this strains grow:

https://peakd.com/hive-151602/@solominer/gorilla-glue-4-day-25
https://peakd.com/hive-151602/@solominer/gorilla-glue-4-day-16