First Grow (hopefully Fat) Banana (Auto)

26.05. 3L of plain tap water added to 3L of leftover fertilizer solution from last week. PH adjusted to 6.2 and fed to the plants. Only minimal/no drain. Did a massive defoliation - Pictures after their dark cycle rest. Not sure whether the net was a good idea. I thought they will now stretch a lot in height, but its not that crazy. The net made defoliation very difficult, in the end I even did stop at plant 3 even though I wanted to take more off on her. The new Gloria 5 pressure sprayer was a good investment. It takes a while to apply the 6L, but reaching the plants was way more easy, no spilling onto the leaves and it was very evenly distributed. Due to the slow watering, you can really time it well and have no/minimal drainage. My guess is that it also holds nutrition better and does not flush them down as much as other types of watering. The pressure did move the earth a bit if you come close to the surface, but still less than pouring fast with a bottle/watering can With one round of pumping you can apply roughly 2L of water. Did remove almost all LST wire. It did not have any effect anymore and was annoying during defoliation. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 27.05. No water today Did move the fan to other side as adviced did try to bend a few side branches towards the middle and took a few leaves to give more light to lower sites. No chance moving the main cola, the stem is rock hard and maybe moves half a cm...💪 plant 3 finally shows sex Yesterday big defoliation and today my mind already goes.. "could remove this leave and that and maybe this too?" pretty sure I'll have to do another round in a few days... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 28.05. No water today Leaves are a bit droopy today, especially at plant 1 Dont think that it is due to water issues. surface still feels somewhat moist and I dont think that I am overwatering either... Best guess would be that plants got used to 50-62% humidity during the weeks of rain, now it stopped raining and humidity did drop to slightly above 40% pretty fast, so sudden change of VPD? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 29.05. Plants just were very thirsty. Looks like a bit of moisture isnt enough anymore and I have to water every 2-3 days now. So I gave 7L plain PH adjusted water in total (PH: 6.1 - 22°C) Stems are firm again after a few hours and leaves also recover. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 30.05. No water today Plants did recover very well and now look really healthy again. Purple stems still remain on plant 1 though Will have to defoliate again soon. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 31.05. Probably have to water again, some of the stems start to feel weak again and plant 1 starts to droop. Will wait a few hours till night to be sure though. Very good development, plants grew almost 3 cm yesterday. Did set up a second fan in opposite direction to the first one to get more air flow evenly at every plant. Felt like plant 1 didnt get enough air/movement after moving the fan. Also did set up some yellow sticky traps again, just for early detection xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01.06. early in the morning I gave 6L tap water to plant 1+2 till runoff PH:6.2 plant 1 needs fertilizer next time. EC of runoff barely was above my tap water plant 2 runoff EC: 0.94 Did wait till evening, so that the plants can recover and then I did end the week with a big defoliation to improve air flow and light penetration. Plants dont look too happy about defoliation. Was hard to reach especially plant 3 in the corner and I did bend some of the buds of plant 2 by accident. But I guess they will recover from that soon. Also gave around 1.8L water to plant 3 in the evening till tiny bit runnoff. guess half of a day wasnt enough. She doesnt drink as much as the other two... Did not measure runoff EC of plant 3 probably will skip her in the next feeding round anyways as she is so much behind plant 1 And it is again raining like crazy. together with watering, the humidity did rise slightly above 60% temperatur stays lowish for june around 24-25° in the box. Plants grow very fast in the last days. Either its the stretch or it is because of the good VPD due to high humidity/lowish temp