Fast Buds Auto run

One of the Gorilla Cookies started flowering a week ahead of the other two. This same early GC has nice spacing of its branches and I only needed to take off 4 fan leaves. Wish I could clone this one! All other autos were very bushy and I did end up defoliating a lot off them last week and they never even showed signs of stress from it. Quite the opposite actually, they flushed out and showed signs of vigorous growth the very next day. They are definatly getting thirstier now too. They are taking almost 2 gallons of water being split between them before I see any run off at the bottom when just a week ago it was half that amount. The smells are definitely getting stronger! Those two Strawberry Banana autos seem to be producing a strong banana smell. When getting close to my grow space you're hit with an unmistakable sweet ripe banana smell! I've had to raise my light twice in the past week from the growth spurt these ladies are going through. Since 5 out of the 6 have not flowered yet, this week was labeled as veg instead of flower even though my GC#1 has been in flower for a week already. 10/12 Moved the other 2 GC to the back since they were taller than the others and now it makes it easier when watering Hard to believe I did some serious defoliating last week! They seemed to have filled right back out in no time! Brewed a compost tea last night with bat guano, earthworm castings, kelp meal, Azomite, and molasses and watered all plants this morning. Gorilla Cookies 1 has been flowering for over a week and a half where the the other 2 GCs are just starting to flower....but they are catching up in height. 👍 10/13 I'm seeing very positive results overnight from the compost tea. All plants have noticable visual growth and vigor. The 2 other GCs are near the same height now as the GC#1 which has been roughly 6 inches taller than the others. I didn't get a picture last night but the other GCs both showed limp tops that had lots of new growth weighing them down. This morning they have righted themselves and are firmly standing tall.