Watermelon Autoflower

August 2, 2023 Day 64 This week won't have recorded stats. They are the same as last week, so no point. Watermelon One is looking great! Buds are swelling up and trichomes are abundant to say the least. She looks to have drank about 1/3 gal water. I removed a couple leaves that were sitting on top of other bud sites. Just a few. Watermelon Two is swelling her buds as well and is almost if not just as frosty as her sister plant. She's still no gem, but I'll get some decent bud off her. Lots of little buds. Maybe they will get super dense and I'll have some nice nugs. Grow System Environment: Temp: 76.6° RH: 60.3% VPD: 1.24 kPa August 3, 2023 Watermelon One is showing some really nice bud. Super smelly now. She is frosty frosty frosty. Just a quarter turn today. No watering. Nothing needed. The tops look nice. Pistils are still nice and long. Still 2 to 3 weeks left on this one. Watermelon Two is doing her thing. Building tiny buds and smelling really strong as well. She will need a reservoir refill tomorrow I think. Maybe 2. I think she needs to dry out a little bit. Her branches are super stiff. And leaves covered in trichomes. Her buds may be the saving grace on this little lady. That's it for the day. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.0° RH: 63.6% VPD: 1.03 kPa August 4, 2023 Watermelon One is a trichome monster. Not a big plant, but the whole thing is covered in a thick layer of trichomes. There is a single top that's being really weird. The leaves are curling up and deforming themselves. Tons of trichomes of course, but I don't know what it's doing. Everything else looks fantastic. Watermelon Two is suffering from an environmental crisis. RH is way too high and the temp keeps fluctuating entirely too much sporadically. The tent door hasn't been properly closed for weeks. The humidity in the tent spikes up to 65% with an ac running, 2 dehumidifiers and the exhaust fan on full blast. It just won't go down. Even with the tent door open, the RH is around 60%. It's all gone haywire! She got a full reservoir refill today. It should last 3 to 4 days. Her buds are getting a bit bigger now. And trichome production is impressive. Aroma is really sweet and refreshing. It's a little heady, but mostly fresh. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.7° RH: 62.4% VPD: 1.09 kPa August 5, 2023 Both ladies bulked up quite a bit last night. It was especially noticable with Watermelon Two. Watermelon One is covered in frost. And I mean covered. There's also purple starting to come through. I can't wait to see how they turn out. She got a full gallon reservoir refill today. Her pot was a little dry and it could be a good thing. Maybe I'll let Watermelon Two dry a bit as well. Her reservoir will need to dry out first and that takes days, so I have plenty of time. She has some nitrogen toxicity. It's DEFINITELY from the Sohum soil. Too much nitrogen because these are autoflowers and small ones at that, the nitrogen wasn't depleted enough and rolled over to the flowering phase. That's my theory at least. She's only running water. So I can absolutely confirm too much nitrogen in the soil for smaller autoflowers. So the goal will have to be make the autoflower as big as possible. Haha. Watermelon Two impressed me today with how much her buds swelled last night. Not much else to say today. Water is fine. She's bulking up and it's time to just watch her grow. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.6° RH: 63.4% VPD: 1.01 kPa August 6, 2023 Watermelon One is looking really good. She has some purple coming out of her thick layer of trichomes. She smells amazing. Her buds are chunky and fairly dense. Her tops all look great. Bud production below the canopy is pretty good as well. I noticed today how much the soil had dropped from the beginning of the grow. Interesting. A good 2 inches down. She has orange pistils coming in now. Not a ton, but a good start to the end of her life cycle. I'd say another week and a half. Maybe 2. She is too small to be cut up for harvest I think so she will be hung whole. Watermelon Two has trichomes galore. Just like her sister plant, she has a thick layer of frost. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any dense buds. She's very airy, but the buds seem to be dense, so we shall see. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.6° RH: 63.6% VPD: 0.99 kPa August 7, 2023 It's extremely humid out today. My room and the tents are suffering pretty bad with RH. Both are around 70%. The dehumidifier is also causing havoc with heat. The room is now 80° and the tents are 82° and 85°. It's too high and can cause issues. It's too close to the end to get screwed by earth. Watermelon One looks absolutely amazing! Her buds are super fat and dense. More pistils are turning orange and trichome production is still in full force. She got a reservoir refill today. Plain water. Nothing else to report. Just a nicely growing plant. Watermelon Two is still swelling and looks better than before. Trichome production is also increasing and looks like a lot more frost is in the way. She also got a reservoir refill. Also plain water. I've decided I will use flawless finish starting next week. The soil is living, so I want to the reservoir to have the nutrient for the roots alone. It should help inhibit any other nutrient uptake. Hopefully that works. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.1° RH: 68.7% VPD: 0.87 kPa August 8, 2023 Watermelon One looks really good. She is completely frosty and her buds are insane. They are so very chunky. Whole colas, dense with frost and bud. I can only imagine a much more dense finished product. Her watering is fine. I will start flawless finish after this reservoir empties out. Should be a day or 2. I'll keep it up until harvest day. Maybe a week and a half. Watermelon Two is starting to get somewhat more dense. Her trichome production is fantastic. She needs no watering. Actually, she doesn't seem to have drank anything at all over the last day. Either way, I'm not expecting much from this lady. Maybe between one and two ounces. I'd say another week and a half before harvest. Just like Watermelon One she'll be getting flawless finish after this reservoir empties. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.8° RH: 65.7% VPD: 0.97 kPa Watermelon One Grow System Environment: Temp: 75.9° RH: 62.3% VPD: 1.18 kPa A note on the environment: The position of the tent in the room and heat from the light combined make this tent a bit closer to ideal than the main tent. It's also because there is only 1 plant in the tent vs 3 other plants in the main tent. One of which being massive. Either way, this environment is much better.