Hello Diary!
This time on the "Farm" there are two new strains from Royal Queen Seeds, Watermelon Auto and Purple Punch Auto. In this diary we will dedicate ourselves to Watermelon. 😀
I would like to thank James of the Royal Queen Seeds for sending me these strains. 🙏
LET'S START FIRST WITH THE FARM SET-UP:
Box - Secret Jardin DS120W 120x60x178
Lights - MIGRO 200+
Ventilation - Blauberg Turbo - E 100
Filter - Primaklima filter PK 100/125
Fan - Oscillating Koala Fan
Humidifier - Beurer LB 45
Soil - BIOBIZZ Light - Mix
Pot - 11L AirPot
Seed - Royal Queen Seed
Nutrition - BioBizz and RQS Organic nutrition
A few words about Watermelon Automatic.
The breeders from RQS set out with the intention of crafting a strain that lights the taste buds on fire. To achieve such a tantalizing terpene profile, they selected two of the most flavorful parent strains available: Tropicanna Cookies and Lemon OG. Both of these varieties are packed full of limonene, myrcene, and other fruity and earthy molecules.
Watermelon Automatic emerged with a genetic makeup of 75% indica, 20% sativa, and 5% ruderalis. The speedy autoflowering strain managed to inherit all of the tasty terpenes from her ancestors.
These are the characteristics, we will now see what it will look like on my small farm.
LET THE DIARY START OFFICIALLY:
14/01/2021.
Planting. After cleaning the Farm (GrowBox), I prepared everything I needed. Soil is a Light-Mix from BioBizz, Air-Pot's, Organic Additives that I mix with soil.
From the beginning of this hobby, I use only organic fertilizers.
I used 11L pots, to which I added 50g Easy Boost Organic Nutrition, 10g Easy Roots Rhizobacter and 5g Easy Roots Mycorrhizza Mix to the soil and mixed everything well.
After that I soaked the soil well with water, made a small hole, laid the seed inside and lightly covered it with soil.
After planting is completed, they enter their new home. As I wrote earlier, in addition to Watermelon, there are two more Purple Punch Auto on the Farm to keep him company. The temperature in the Box at that time was 23 degrees and the humidity was slightly below 45%, so I will have to put humidifier to raise humidity.
I set the lights 35cm from the pots as Migro recommends.
14 - 17/01/2021
I sprayed the surface of the soil with water a couple of times to keep the soil moisture at the surface.
17/01/2021
Watermelon Automatic sprouted. There was a seed coat left on the stalk so I had to remove it by hand, but a nice photo motif.
22/01/2021
I watered the plants with a small amount of water to which I only regulated p.H at 6.4.
Farm: 24.7 degrees - 55% humidity
I'm quite late with the publication of the diary, the reason is the large number of photos I take and then I need to find time to put everything in a pile, along with the notes and type everything nicely. No matter how much time I spend on the diary, it relaxes me and makes me happy.
See you soon.
I had brown yellow spots too and the leaves slowly died. I had a lack of potassium because of a ph lock out. Check your runoff ph. I flushed with 2 L of water untill it was right and added worm casting on the top layer. Also 2 weeks whitout nutrients untill it was stabilized. Hope this helps. 🙂