Gorilla Cookies (Fast) Feminized

Gorilla Cookies Fast Feminized at a glance

Gorilla Cookies Fast Feminized is a fast version photoperiod cross of Gorilla Glue #4 and Girl Scout Cookies with a proprietary hybrid that shortens bloom. It flowers in 6 to 7 weeks (42 to 49 days), carries 24% THC and gives 350 to 450 g/m² indoors, with outdoor plants reaching 700 g each.

Gorilla Cookies Fast Feminized gives you the Gorilla Glue #4 and Girl Scout Cookies pairing without the longer bloom. You keep the 24% THC, the resin, the earthy-diesel and cookie-dough aroma and the layered effect, and you gain 10 to 15 days of your year back.

Genetics

Two of the most celebrated cultivars in modern cannabis sit behind Gorilla Cookies Fast Feminized, and the third parent trims the flowering window by 10 to 15 days compared with a standard version of this cross at 56 to 63 days. The plant is cooperative, resinous and forgiving for a strain with this kind of potency ceiling.

The lineage is a three-way cross: Gorilla Glue #4, Girl Scout Cookies and a proprietary secret hybrid that tightens the bloom. Together the three give a balanced indica/sativa plant of moderate height with strong lateral branching, which fills out sideways rather than racing upward.

Gorilla Glue #4, often shortened to GG4, is one of the most resin-heavy cultivars ever developed. It drives the dense, sticky flowers, the earthy-diesel aroma and the heavy full-body effect. The same parent on its own is on the Gorilla Glue #4 Feminized page.

Girl Scout Cookies brings the sweetness, the complexity and a cerebral edge that keeps the experience from going purely sedative. It is behind the cookie-dough and vanilla undertones in the cured flower and the dense, frosted look.

The third parent is what makes this the fast version. This secret hybrid compresses flowering to 42 to 49 days while keeping the cannabinoid and terpene expression of the GG4 x GSC cross.

Aroma and effect

Myrcene leads the terpene profile, bringing earthy, musky and herbal aromas. The nose moves from sharp, diesel-forward notes to something warmer and sweeter, funky, rich and a little indulgent, and it turns pungent around week six of flowering, so plan carbon filtration.

On the palate the smoke opens with earthy, fuel-tinged notes and moves toward baked goods, with a subtle sweetness that lingers at the back of the throat. A slow cure in glass jars, at around 62% relative humidity, lets the cookie and vanilla undertones develop, and our guide to cannabis terpenes explains how myrcene shapes the rest.

The effects follow the parents. At 24% THC the onset is cerebral, energetic and mood-lifting, the GSC influence showing early. Then the GG4 side takes over and settles you into deep, full-body relaxation.

Growing guide

Gorilla Cookies Fast Feminized is moderately easy to grow and suits indoor, outdoor and greenhouse climates. It stays at moderate height with strong lateral branching and flowers in 6 to 7 weeks (42 to 49 days) after the 12/12 flip, 10 to 15 days faster than a standard version of this cross.

Fast version does not mean autoflower. The plant still waits for the 12/12 flip indoors, or for the shortening days of late summer outdoors, so you control the calendar.

Indoor growers get a quicker turnaround and more harvests per year. Outdoors in Quebec, along the St. Lawrence, it is ready in early to mid-September, well ahead of the cold, wet weather and the first hard frost.

Indoors: from veg to flower

Gorilla Cookies Fast Feminized is moderately easy to grow. It suits intermediate growers and is accessible to beginners who have completed one successful run. The feminized genetics remove sexing, and the sturdy GG4 structure tolerates small temperature swings or training mistakes.

Indoors, build the canopy in 2 to 3 weeks of vegetative growth, then switch to 12/12 to trigger flowering. The strong lateral branching rewards early topping and wide training. The resin and the dense canopy can create humidity pockets that invite mould, so keep relative humidity below 50% in flower and size your extraction fan for the room.

Flowering takes 42 to 49 days from the start of the 12/12 phase, about six to seven weeks, against 56 to 63 days for a standard version of this cross. For a strain with 24% THC and this much resin, that is a genuinely fast turnaround.

Outdoors in Quebec

Outdoors, the plant flowers naturally as daylight hours shorten in late summer. In Quebec, along the St. Lawrence, an early to mid-September harvest keeps it clear of the cold, wet autumn that threatens longer-flowering plants. It suits indoor, outdoor and greenhouse climates alike.

Give it full sun and well-draining, nutrient-rich soil, and follow the seasonal calendar in our guide to growing cannabis outdoors in Canada. It is a heavy feeder in vegetative growth, so support nitrogen and then taper off as flowering begins.

Peak trichome development, cloudy with a share of amber, tends to arrive around day 45 of flowering, which sits inside the early to mid-September harvest window in Quebec. Watch the trichomes, not only the calendar, and keep the scissors clean: trimming this resin is sticky work, so keep isopropyl alcohol close.

Growing tips

Five habits matter most with Gorilla Cookies Fast Feminized: topping early, giving outdoor plants a longer veg, controlling humidity late in flower, feeding heavily in veg and tapering in bloom, and drying and curing slowly. Together they turn a short bloom into a full, resinous harvest.

• Top early and train wide. Top the main cola at the third or fourth node and use low-stress training to spread the canopy sideways. Even light on many bud sites raises the yield per square metre, and trained plants can give six to eight main colas of near-equal size.

• Give outdoor plants a longer veg. The 42 to 49 day bloom is fixed, but the vegetative period is yours. More plant mass before the natural light trigger is what supports the 700 g per plant figure.

• Control humidity in late flower. Dense, resinous buds are also a mould risk. Keep relative humidity at 45 to 50% in the final weeks, and add a small dehumidifier in a humid space.

• Feed heavy in veg, taper in flower. Support nitrogen with calcium and magnesium in veg. After the flip, reduce nitrogen and raise phosphorus and potassium for bud development and resin.

• Dry and cure slowly. Dry in the dark with air moving for about 18 days, at 18 °C at most and around 60% relative humidity, never with heat. Then cure in sealed glass jars; a longer cure deepens the flavour.