Watermelon Autoflower

June 21, 2023 Day 22 Watermelon One: Height: 7.5" DLI: 28 mol/m²/d Watermelon Two: Height: 5.5" DLI: 25 mol/m²/d Watermelon One: This one is growing quite nicely. Nice little reach going on. Very nice color and strong stem. Working on node 5 now. I think I'll be training this one. Some LST in a few days when she is taller. Watermelon Two: This is the wider of the 2 plants. She is almost at her 6th node. Branches are growing at a nice pace. Beautiful green broad leaves show off her Indica parentage. She will certainly need some sort of defoliation. Maybe she'll need to be trained depending how she grows. I'd rather not do anything but defoliation with this one. She's shorter at 5.5" but definitely faster. Very happy plant. The watering seems to be perfect for these ladies. The bottom feed wicking system is working perfectly and is keeping the saturation rate of the soil at around 50%, which seems optimal for this soil. I've never had an under or over watering issue for any plants from the last 2 grows. The bigger plants need extra wick to keep up with the water demand, but it works and keeps me from having to do any top feeding for at least a week or 2. Lower Grow System Environment: Temp: 75° RH: 62% VPD: 1.13 kPa June 22, 2023 Training day starts today! Woohoo! Both ladies got their first bend today. Just a slight one at the 4th node each. I decided not to bother with a control this time. Instead, I plan to grow these two exactly the same. With hopefully, the same canopy height. They look great! We will see how they take to it tomorrow. Watering is perfect still. Light penetration is fine. I feel like they maybe will start needing more soon enough. On a second note, the DLI was too low for these ladies at 20 mol/m²/d. They should be around 30. So I raised them up about 3". Light distance is now 31" and DLI is 28 mol/m²/d. Let's see how they do for the day. Lower Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.7° RH: 61.7% VPD: 1.09 kPa June 23, 2023 Both ladies took to their training like a dream. A slight adjustment today to keep that top flat while the rest of the branches grow. The water intake looks to be spot on. They seem to be drinking a bit more than the other plants I have in the tent. That must be a good thing. These ladies are going to turn out huge. I can feel it with my Weedi powers. You can certainly tell in the pictures that these ladies are no slouches. They are moving along quite nicely. They're already showing their sex. So I can only assume they will be taking off even more in the coming days. Fantastic! Oh, yesterday I noticed a neat little thing. One of the branches split into 2 tops. Very cool. I posted a pic. Lower Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.8% RH: 61.7% VPD: 1.06 kPa June 24, 2023 Both ladies got a little bit of a leaf tuck today. Just opening up those side branches. They both look beautiful. No watering needed. I expect them to be a bit thirsty in a couple days. Lower Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.8° RH: 61.7% VPD: 1.06 kPa June 25, 2023 Both ladies are taking perfectly to the training. Side branches are all coming up level with the top. I'm using the large fan leaves to push out the branches for a wider more open plant. I'll continue doing this until they can be tied down at the side of the pot. They both got reservoir refills today. Very happy girls indeed. The environment is ridiculously humid. No control over it. Hopefully doesn't develop mold conditions. Lower Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.7° RH: 63.7% VPD: 1.00 kPa June 26, 2023 These ladies are looking wonderful. They are getting vigorous and stretching their side branches nicely. Leaves look great with a lush green color. They are nice and broad showing off their Indica parentage. They won't need a watering for about a week from what I am seeing. Watermelon One seems to be a bit thirstier, but not much. The grow light got raised an inch for another plant in the tent. However, it didn't make much of a difference. The higher light actually made the coverage a bit better. It's still super humid here and I'm still at war with it. Lower Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.5° RH: 64.8% VPD: 0.99 kPa June 27, 2023 This whole week has been super humid. And I can't fight it off. It's that humid. I have 2 dehumidifiers going. I really need an air conditioner for my room so the tent can bring in fresh dry air. Both plants are starting to get a bit vigorous. Excellent! I can't wait to see how they turn out in the flowering stage. Watermelon One This one is quite nice. She is taking perfectly to her training. I tied down the tallest 3 branches level with the top. The top was also adjusted and tied down again. Everything looks great! Zkittlez Two A great plant so far! She has beautiful leaves and is taking excellently to her training. I tied down the top and side branches today. Lower Grow System Environment: Temp: 71.2° RH: 64.7% VPD: 0.93 kPa