Gorilla Glue Autoflower Seeds

Gorilla Glue Autoflower is a feminized autoflower hybrid, 55% indica and 45% sativa, with an earthy, pungent profile and notes of coffee and spice. It is Barney’s Farm’s cross of GG4 with its BF Super Auto #1, so it flowers on its own clock, and Barney’s now sells it as GG4 Auto. Expect about 70 to 75 days from seed to harvest.

History & lineage

Barney’s Farm built this autoflower by crossing GG4 with BF Super Auto #1, an autoflowering line of the Dutch seed bank’s own, and it was listed as Gorilla Glue Auto before Barney’s renamed it GG4 Auto.

Its photoperiod parent started as an accident. In Joesy Whales’s own telling, some Chem’s Sister plants he was growing threw pollen sacs and seeded his Sour Dubb, and the resulting strain, also known as Original Glue, was co-bred by Whales and his partner Lone Watty. Leafly News recounts Whales saying the plant would glue scissors together at trimming time. Some records add Chocolate Diesel as a third parent, though Whales’s account names only the two. GG4, one of its parents, won Best Hybrid at High Times’ 2014 Los Angeles Cannabis Cup (Standard Seed Collective’s entry).

Aroma & flavour

Barney’s Farm describes an earthy, pungent profile with coffee notes, and scents of coffee and cream that come through during flowering; it lists the taste as creamy, spicy and earthy. Leafly has no flavour reports for this autoflower. For GG4, its users most often report earthy, pungent and pine flavours, followed by diesel and woody, and Leafly’s lab data lists caryophyllene as the most abundant terpene, then myrcene and limonene. Our terpene guide explains what each of those brings to a smell.

Effects, as users report them

Leafly has no user reports for this autoflower, so these are Leafly users’ reports for GG4, its photoperiod parent, most common first; Leafly sums GG4 up as mostly calming, and an autoflower won’t always feel exactly like its parent. Barney’s Farm describes relaxing and euphoric effects with a potent body high, and SeedFinder’s description of this auto has it starting stimulating and euphoric before settling into a deep, calm stone. Dry mouth and dry eyes are the downsides GG4 users report most, and smaller numbers report dizziness, paranoia or anxiety. Barney’s puts THC at around 26% and warns that its hard-hitting effects deserve respect, so if you are new to cannabis, start with a small amount.

Growing Gorilla Glue Autoflower

Gorilla Glue Autoflower starts flowering by itself, without a change to 12-hour nights, so it can stay on one light schedule from seed to harvest; autos are commonly run at 18 to 20 hours of light a day, and our autoflower light schedule guide sets out the choices. Barney’s Farm gives about 70 to 75 days from seed to harvest.

Barney’s says it is not a plant for beginners, so expect a moderate grow. Indoors it reaches about 80–100 cm (2.6–3.3 ft) with yields of up to about 500–600 g/m² (about 1.6–2.0 oz/ft²); outdoors it reaches about 100–130 cm (3.3–4.3 ft) and gives around 230–300 g (about 8.1–10.6 oz) per plant. Our autoflower height guide helps you plan the headroom. The flowers form with very tight nodal spacing and come heavily coated in resin, so keep the air moving and humidity low late in flower to protect them from bud rot. Low-stress training is a common way to open up an autoflower’s canopy, and the trichomes tell you when to harvest better than the calendar.

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