First Grow RQS: Fat Banana Automatic

01.05.: Watered with ~60ml. Temperature way too high with 32°C and Humidity too low with 45%. Height: 4cm. 02.05.: Watered again with ~60ml. Since the temperature is still very high I opened the window in the morning. In the afternoon the temperature dropped from 32°C to 22°C and the humidity increased from 45% to 55%. I hope this drastic change in temperature doesn't stress the plant. Height: 4.5cm. 03.05.: I raised the LED to about 7cm above the plant. Temperature 24°C, humidity: 58%, height 4.5cm. 04.05.: The stem starts to look a little purple. I'll keep an eye on that. The whole seedling is tilted a lot too so I stabilized her with too toothpicks to get her to stand up better. I also installed a more powerful LED ~35cm above the plant. Temperature 25°C, humidity: 50%, height 5.5cm. 05.05.: I removed the toothpicks since the plant was standing upright on it's own. Temperature 27°C, humidity: 50%, height: 6cm. 06.05.: Stem might be a little too long. At least it's shaking a lot in the air circulating. I'm thinking of supporting it again but so far all seems ok. Temperature: 25°C, humidity: 50%, height 6cm. 07.05.: Leaves are hanging a little bit down and the tips are starting to curl upwards. I assume it's because she's dehydrated which would make sense since I haven't watered in few days. Gave her ~100ml of water. Temperature: 25°C, humidity: 63%, height 6cm. Overall my Fat Banana seems like the most developed of my three plants. Even though I hope the stem is not too weak since it's shaking a lot in the breeze. So far everything looks fine and healthy though I hope the bend and curled leaves are really a sign of dehydration and not a problem with the roots. I'm thinking about introducing them to organic fertilizer in the next cupple days.

08.05.2024: The dirt feels very dense. The signs of dehydration might be signs of suffocating roots instead. I hope this gets better over the next cupple days. Temperature: 25°C, humidity: 62%, height: 6.5cm. 09.05.-11.05.2024: Had to leave for a cupple of days my roommate watered the plants on 11.05. 12.05.2024: Newly formed leaves are bend upwards which I think is normal. The tips of the bottom leaves are starting to become yellow though. I think this might be because of a malnutrition. I'll start to water with light fertilizer tomorrow to get them used to it. Temperature: 32°C, humidity: 37%, height 9cm. 13.05.2024: Gave fertilizer (compo organic grow mix) for the first time in a concentration of 1/150. Watered 100ml before and gave 100ml of the solution 10min afterwards. Temperature: 25°C, humidity: 55%, height: 8.5cm. 14.05.2024: Bottom leaves are still yellow and the leave tips are starting to become yellow too. I hope this is not an infection. All my three plants show this so isolating one plant is not nesessary in my oppinion. Temperature: 28°C, humidity: 55%, height: 9cm. The plant made huge jump in week three first nodes start to form and everything looks good. Only the yellow leaves are worrying me if this is an infection I hope that it doesn't influence the growth of the plant too bad. I'm also batling high temperatures and low humidity.

She grew quite a lot this week. Mostly in height though which I find quite confusing since both my other plants are growing wide rather than tall. But I guess that differs from plant to plant. However the yellow leaves (look in the last picture) worry me. All three of my plants have those. I had some fungus gnats the last cupple days so I bought yellowstickers and nematodes against them. I hope they didn't harm my plants too bad. Overall I was very surprised that she smells this early.

I used LST for the first time this week and it works better than I expected. Even though shes quite thin and not really growing any other stems except the mainstem. I water every two about with about 200-300ml. Overall though she seems very healthy.