Watermelon Autoflower

July 5, 2023 Day 36 I had to drop the light intensity for the 2 large plants in the grow tent. Light Intensity is now 60% Happily, that really helps the power consumption, considering I just added another 100 watt light to the smaller tent for Watermelon One. DLI: 32 mol/m²/d This week we focus on defoliation and LST adjustments. Both ladies are looking great and are exactly the same size now. However, they're still really short. Around 9" to 10" tall. I'm hoping they take off very soon. We are absolutely in flower now. Maybe very late pre-flower. Either way, she doesn't seem to be stretching at all. Just an inch over last week. But still I have hope. The fact that they are both the exact same, I would expect them both to take off. If not, then I am really confused. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.2° RH: 62.8% VPD: 1.06 kPa July 6, 2023 Watermelon One is happy in her own place. She hasn't done much in stretch yet, but she should get there any day now. Watermelon Two however stretched about an inch last night. Good sign. Watering is great. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.5° RH: 62.5% VPD: 1.03 kPa July 7, 2023 Watermelon One accidentally got topped today. I have concerns. As she is just starting to stretch and it's already the flowering stage. I have another plants that I accidentally broke one branch off and almost a second and the plant is now absolutely massive, so hopefully I'll get the same outcome. Considering the topping I also decided to snip some of the low leaves blocking airflow. And of course, made some adjustments to the tie downs. Watermelon Two is starting to stretch. She is looking great and has plenty of auxiliary branches coming up. No accidents and she definitely looks like her stretch will be fantastic. I did snip a couple leaves blocking lower air movement and made some tie down adjustments. I've also decided to start rotating 4 times a day to get better light coverage. Other than that, she looks extremely promising. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.5° RH: 58.2% VPD: 1.17 Watermelon One Environment: Temp: 74.4° RH: 58.1% VPD: 1.23 kPa July 8, 2023 Both ladies look great. They still aren't really taking off in their stretch, but I think they'll be fine. Watermelon One is really enjoying her own tent. Again, she isn't growing much, but looks like she is prepping to. I'm sure the accidental topping may have a bit to do with it. Watermelon Two also looks poised for her stretch, if they don't start stretching in the next couple of days, I'll be concerned. For now, I'll let them do their thing. Considering both plants have been trained the exact same way and have even had the exact same leaves snipped, I think this accidental topping will work as a good experiment. To see if just LST is better or worse than LST with Topping. Sweet! Grow System Environment: Temp: 75.6° RH: 60.5% VPD: 1.19 kPa July 9, 2023 Watermelon One is looking good. She has a perfectly flat canopy and great leaf colors. Very healthy plant. I am concerned about her height now. Well, both of their height. They are both the same size and height. Only 10.5" tall. The interesting part is how the topped plant is keeping up with the non topped plant. OR, they are both just slow growers. I also noticed that Watermelon Two is taking more time adjusting to the LST. She's not really growing auxiliary branches like her sister plant. So far, it seems that the topped plant is actually doing better than the non topped one. Both need the exact same amount of watering today. Also very interesting. Roots are showing nicely on Watermelon One, but I'm not seeing much on Watermelon Two. Grow System Environment: Temp: 79.4° RH: 58.9% VPD: 1.38 kPa Watermelon One Environment: Temp: 79.1° RH: 67.9% VPD: 1.12 kPa July 10, 2023 Watermelon One is doing quite well. Very level canopy. Taking in water slowly. No stretch yet, but I can tell she's getting ready to. I hope she does though. The foliage is starting to get a bit bushy and overlapping each other, so moisture is getting trapped between them. Watermelon Two looks exactly the same as her sister plant. Same everything. It's really neat seeing two plants grow and look exactly the same. Same phenome. Really fun documenting. Grow System Environment: Temp: 76.4° RH: 58% VPD: 1.28 kPa July 11, 2023 I have concerns about the stretch of these ladies. They haven't stretched at all. They haven't really gotten any wider either. But they are flowering. It looks like full flower as if pre-flower never happened. Weird. Not much I can do about it. At least nothing I know of yet. They look healthy as ever, just not growing much. Grow System Environment: Temp: 76.1° RH: 57.8% VPD: 1.27 kPa Watermelon One Environment: Temp: 73.1° RH: 60.5% VPD: 1.11 kPa