Gorilla Gold #3 and other semi-autos?

Howdy Folks!

I am around 36° South East Kentucky and I have been very interested in Real Gorilla Seeds gear. Mostly because they are specifically bred for the outdoors and have lots of very early finishing strains that claim to be harvested in between the months of July and September. The GG#3 really sparks my interest as it should finish around August.

This brings me to my concerns and curiosity. These Semi- Auto strains are mostly bred and worked in the more northern hemisphere of the world, I am assuming around 45° plus. Not really sure as I have not done extensive research on them yet concerning that matter, but I would like to know how they would perform somewhere like here in the southern Appalachia. We have much longer extended grow seasons here than up North, I can run plants into the months of late October and even into middle of November if we have a good year. I have my staple outdoor strains that I have selected over the years that I know perform well here, most of these strains I use finish between middle of September to first of November. Although I luckily have the advantage of being able to run plants that late into the year, we have far much less daylight hours than a up North.

Has anyone ran these early finishing Semi- Auto type genetics around my latitude with success? I am still gonna grow out my normal plants that I always have, but I would like to add some good mold resistant strains that will finish in August, I mean of course the earlier you can pull your plants and the earlier they finish for you in a Guerilla type grow, the better.

I am very experienced with the normal photo-period strains but have hardly any experience with Semi autos.

If these plants could provide me around 4 zips per, I would be more than happy to grow them out and order bulk beans. The GG#3/mighty mike strains really grab my attention the most. Its just deciding wether they will perform as well here in my environment with less daylight hours as they would in the Northern Hemisphere where they are obviously bred and tested.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help as I need to be ordering the beans very soon!

Im also interested in the same strain and have similar concerns. Running my usual platinum Og and a mango haze this season. Last year I didnt pull my last mango until first week of November.

psychadelibud said:

Howdy Folks!

I am around 36° South East Kentucky and I have been very interested in Real Gorilla Seeds gear. Mostly because they are specifically bred for the outdoors and have lots of very early finishing strains that claim to be harvested in between the months of July and September. The GG#3 really sparks my interest as it should finish around August.

This brings me to my concerns and curiosity. These Semi- Auto strains are mostly bred and worked in the more northern hemisphere of the world, I am assuming around 45° plus. Not really sure as I have not done extensive research on them yet concerning that matter, but I would like to know how they would perform somewhere like here in the southern Appalachia. We have much longer extended grow seasons here than up North, I can run plants into the months of late October and even into middle of November if we have a good year. I have my staple outdoor strains that I have selected over the years that I know perform well here, most of these strains I use finish between middle of September to first of November. Although I luckily have the advantage of being able to run plants that late into the year, we have far much less daylight hours than a up North.

Has anyone ran these early finishing Semi- Auto type genetics around my latitude with success? I am still gonna grow out my normal plants that I always have, but I would like to add some good mold resistant strains that will finish in August, I mean of course the earlier you can pull your plants and the earlier they finish for you in a Guerilla type grow, the better.

I am very experienced with the normal photo-period strains but have hardly any experience with Semi autos.

If these plants could provide me around 4 zips per, I would be more than happy to grow them out and order bulk beans. The GG#3/mighty mike strains really grab my attention the most. Its just deciding wether they will perform as well here in my environment with less daylight hours as they would in the Northern Hemisphere where they are obviously bred and tested.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help as I need to be ordering the beans very soon!

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I have not worked with these strains but I am familiar with the genetics behind them. Basically they have been bred to be very sensitive to light duration. From what I gather, your better off planting them as early as possible,when daytime exceeds 12 hours of daylight, and is increasing daily. Otherwise, any noticeable decrease in duration of daylight will trigger flowering. So just assume they basically become autoflowrs after the summer solstice. If anyone else has more info please feel free to correct me. If it were me, I would just get some autoflowrs. If your ordering right now and germ within the next two weeks that would put your harvest date somewhere in mid-late July early August. And there are plenty of proven autoflower genetics.

I ran sweet skunk fast version last year. Planted it June 10 and pulled it September 10 and it turned out great. I think it would have been a little better a week earlier. I'm trying a critical 2.0 i got as a freebie. It is supposed to be fast and mold resistant.

If you send them an email they will be the best people to advise you.

These are all rgs gear at lat 53. Id imagine you could run anything you wanted at the latitude.

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psychadelibud said:

Howdy Folks!

I am around 36° South East Kentucky and I have been very interested in Real Gorilla Seeds gear. Mostly because they are specifically bred for the outdoors and have lots of very early finishing strains that claim to be harvested in between the months of July and September. The GG#3 really sparks my interest as it should finish around August.

This brings me to my concerns and curiosity. These Semi- Auto strains are mostly bred and worked in the more northern hemisphere of the world, I am assuming around 45° plus. Not really sure as I have not done extensive research on them yet concerning that matter, but I would like to know how they would perform somewhere like here in the southern Appalachia. We have much longer extended grow seasons here than up North, I can run plants into the months of late October and even into middle of November if we have a good year. I have my staple outdoor strains that I have selected over the years that I know perform well here, most of these strains I use finish between middle of September to first of November. Although I luckily have the advantage of being able to run plants that late into the year, we have far much less daylight hours than a up North.

Has anyone ran these early finishing Semi- Auto type genetics around my latitude with success? I am still gonna grow out my normal plants that I always have, but I would like to add some good mold resistant strains that will finish in August, I mean of course the earlier you can pull your plants and the earlier they finish for you in a Guerilla type grow, the better.

I am very experienced with the normal photo-period strains but have hardly any experience with Semi autos.

If these plants could provide me around 4 zips per, I would be more than happy to grow them out and order bulk beans. The GG#3/mighty mike strains really grab my attention the most. Its just deciding wether they will perform as well here in my environment with less daylight hours as they would in the Northern Hemisphere where they are obviously bred and tested.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help as I need to be ordering the beans very soon!

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that's a tough one me thinks the northern semi auto may be full auto where ya at,u never no breed some full autos with some haze u find what ya looking for

The value of the semi autos is that you can veg with long light hours. {20-4} So you can get some size before they go outside. And they will trigger when put in natural light hours. Getaway Mountain has some strains he chops in August. They will be flowering when you still have pretty good light.