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Hello Diary.
New diary, in the fifth farm I have three new residents, one Fat Banana and two Haze Berry. Both sides are from the Royal Queen Seeds. And this diary is dedicated only to Fat Banana.
I would like to thank the team from the Royal Queen Seeds who have recognized my efforts in keeping a diary and greatly support me in what I love.
I always try to make a balance between sativa and indica, since I do creative work, I am a big fan of sativa, although in the evening, when my obligations are over, I like to relax with indica. So this time I planted two Haze Berry Auto that are predominantly sativa and one Fat Banana which is more indica.
WHY FAT BANANA?
Fat Banana Automatic stinks of tropical fruits and produces large, chubby flowers. The strain is the autoflowering version of Fat Banana, an aromatic classic. The original made her mark on the cannabis world with her insane scent, massive THC level, and rewarding yield.
Fat Banana Automatic inherited indica-dominant genetics from the original strain. Much like her predecessor, she provokes a body-slamming high par excellence. Her effects take hold immediately, plunging users into a euphoric state of relaxation.
Fat Banana Automatic’s potency also gives her medicinal viability. Her calming nature is effective at reducing stress, and the physical aspect of her high may help to relieve aches and pains. The strain is ideal for evening smoke sessions. Users might feel too relaxed to function properly during the daytime. Cook some food, put on a good film, and get ready for a few hours of couch-lock.
LET'S START FIRST WITH THE FARM SET-UP:
Box - Secret Jardin DS120W 120x60x178
Lights - MIGRO 200+
Ventilation - Blauberg Turbo - E 100
Filter - Primaklima filter PK 100/125
Fan - Oscillating Koala Fan x2
Humidifier - Beurer LB 45
Soil - BIOBIZZ Light - Mix
Pot - 11L AirPot
Seed - Royal Queen Seed
Nutrition - BioBizz and RQS Organic nutrition
LET THE DIARY START OFFICIALLY:
14/09/2020
Planting. I prepared everything I needed for planting, cleaned the farm and changed the filter. I put Primaklima filter - PK 100/125. This time I decidet for AirPots, I also used them in the first two farms, BioBizz-Light Mix is already standard on my farm and Easy Boost and Easy Roots Mycorrhiza Mix from RQS as organic nutrition. Since the first farm I use only organic fertilizers and for now I have used BioBizz and RQS organic nutrition.
After I put the soil in the pot, I added 50g of Easy Boost Organic nutrition and mixed it well with the soil, after that I added 5g of Easy Roots Mycorrhiza Mix and also mixed everything once more.
I prepared 7 liters of water in which I regulated p.H with Plagron’s Lemon Kick, and soaked the soil well before making a hole in which I put the seed. Otherwise, the water would have pushed the seed much deeper into the ground.
After the planting is completed, they enter their new home. The temperature in the Box at that time was 26 degrees and the humidity was slightly below 60%.
I set the lights 35cm from the pots as Migro recommends.
14 - 17/09/2020
I sprayed the surface of the soil with water a couple of times to keep the soil moisture at the surface.
Also the humidity dropped so I put on a humidifier for a couple of days.
18/09/2020
Fat Banana sprouted, a day later from her first roommate Haze Berry.
19/09/2020
Watering. I watered with about a liter of water with regulated p.H.
23/09/2020
Watering. Regulated by p.H. at 6.4 and gave her approximately 1 liter of water.
I think Grow Diaries made a great decision to put this germination week as an option, yet that germination process is just as important and it’s great to have room to write more and show how each of us does it. See you next week.
Hello Diary.
The first week of vegetation is behind me and for now all the plants are growing nicely on my little farm. I put the Fat Banana in the middle between the two Haze Berrys, I'll see how it fits her there.
I started adding BioBizz on schedule for the first week of vegetation and p.H. I regulate with Plagron’s Lemon Kick.
The temperature and humidity are satisfactory, so I no longer used a humidifier.
Here's how the week went.
25/09/2020 - Day 1.
Photography. Fat Banana is officially 1. day old. I mean by the first day when the plant gets the other two leaves. Then it is no longer sprout.
Fat Banana - Day 1. - 5.5 cm
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.8 degrees and 52% humidity.
26/09/2020 - Day 2.
Watering. First feeding. I regulated p.H. at 6.1 and added BioBizz's Root-Juice - 4ml / L, Bio-Heaven 2ml / L and Acti-Vera 2ml / L. Each plant received a liter of water.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 24.9 degrees and 45% humidity.
29/09/2020 - Day 5.
Watering. p.H. is regulated to 6.3 and I added BioBizz on a schedule for the first week. Like three days earlier. This time I watered with 1.5 lit.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 24.2 degrees and 45% humidity.
01/10/2020 - Day 7.
Photography. The first week is officially behind us. Fat Banana is progressing nicely, although it lags a bit behind Haze Berry's roommate, but otherwise everything is cool.
Fat Banana - 10 cm - Day 7.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 24.8 degrees and 50% humidity.
What to say at the end of the first week, I am pleased with how the plants are progressing and I will try to please them as best I can. See you next week.
Hello Diary.
He also finished the second week of vegetation and Fat Banana with his 21cm. he doesn’t lag far behind his roommate Haze Berry in terms of height and general development. I moved Fat Banana all the way to the left and put Haze Berry # 2 in the middle. I was thinking about topping this time but still decided on a naturally determined growth and development.
She threw out the hairs in the places where the branches come out of the stem and thus showed that she is female :).
I continued feeding with BioBizz as scheduled for the second week of vegetation.
Let’s see what it looked like last week.
02/10/2020 - Day 8.
Watering. She got BioBizz on schedule for the second week of vegetation.
Fish-Mix - 2ml / lit, Bio-Heaven - 2ml / lit and Acti-Vera - 2ml / lit. p.H I dropped to 6.4 with Plagron’s Lemon Kick.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25 degrees and 53% humidity.
06/10/2020 - Day 12.
Watering. Procedure as four days ago. The temperature of the water I water is always around 19 degrees.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.6 degrees and 49% humidity.
08/10/2020 - Day 14.
Photography and height measurement. This time I also record a bit and video and it really relaxes and makes me happy.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.6 degrees and 49% humidity.
Fat Banana Auto - 21cm
At the end of the second week everything is fine. The conditions in the Box are good and the plants are progressing nicely. We’ll see how Fat Banana progresses compared to the Haze’s. Since they are all different heights, I have to adjust the lights and lift a little every day to maintain a distance of 35cm as Migro recommends.
That’s it for this week, see you soon.
Hello Diary.
The third week of vegetation has passed and Fat Banana has entered the pre-flowering phase. The plant grew 41 cm in the first three weeks, which is one third less than its roommate Haze Berry.
Fat Banana has developed dense branches with lots of leaves, now the leaves and branches are causing problems when watering.
I continue to add BioBizz to each watering on a schedule for that week, and I also started adding CalMag preventively.
Fat Banana has also become more thirsty, now watering is almost every two days when I prepare 6 liters of water with which I water all three plants evenly.
All in all, everything is fine for now and I’m looking forward to the start of flowering.
Let’s take a look at the review of the week.
09/10/2020 - Day 15.
Watering. I added BioBizz as scheduled for the third week and added 1.5ml / lit CalMag preventively. p.H. I lowered the values to 6.4 with Plagron’s Lemon Kick. The temperature of the water I water with is always around 18, 19 degrees. I also put in a Box and another fan.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.3 degrees and 48% humidity.
11/10/2020 - Day 17.
Watering. This time I didn’t add BioBizz, but just put 1.5ml / lit CalMag and lowered the p.H. value at 6.4.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.3 degrees and 45% humidity.
13/10/2020 - Day 19.
Watering. BioBizz for the third week and CalMag preventively. p.H was 6.3
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25 degrees and 45% humidity.
15/10/2020 - Day 21.
Photography, Watering and height measurement. After photographing for the end of the third week of vegetation, I measured the plants on the farm and after all watered with BioBizz and added CalMag preventively. p.H. I dropped to 6.4
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.2 degrees and 45% humidity.
Fat Banana Auto - Day 21. - 41 cm
This week I have finished the vegetation and am entering the flowering phase. For now, the plants look happy and pleased. Their conditions are pretty good and I will try to keep it that way. See you next week.
Hello Diary.
The first week of flowering on my little farm is over, so I started photographing the plants in more detail and I will now start photographing on a black background as well now that they are much more interesting and beautiful. 😍
I changed the light regime in the Box, now the plants have 4 hours of darkness and 20 hours of light.
As you can see in the photos, Fat Banana grew 72cm in the first 30 days which I would say is the average for Automatic on my Farm. Compared to Haze Berry it is slightly lower, but considering the strain, it was also to be expected.
We’ll see how much more it will grow, I hope it stays lower than 100cm. 😏
My plan is to do defoliation in a day or two. Watering has become quite difficult due to the amount of leaves and branches but I think it will come in handy to aerate them anyway.
The flowers develop nicely and there are many of them, Fat Banana is not somehow symmetrical, the branches developed differently, so it looks a little strange, but I really like it because of its naturalness.
I still add BioBizz as scheduled for the current week and add CalMag but only preventively in a smaller dose. Watering is on average every two to three days.
Another Haze Berry who keep her company on the Farm, I put in the middle and put a pot underneath to bring it closer to the light. It is now a real little jungle on the Farm so defoliation is a must.
I am satisfied with how the plants are developing, they have good conditions and I think they are enjoying my "Little Farm". 😎
Let’s take a look at what happened this week.
17/10/2020 - Day 23.
Watering and changing the light. I added BioBizz according to the schedule for the first week of flowering, I replaced Fish-Mix with Bio-Grow. I still add 1.5 ml / lit of CalMag for prevention. p.H. I dropped to 6.6 with Plagron’s Lemon Kick.
After watering I changed the light mode to 20/4.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.2 degrees and 41% humidity.
20/10/2020 - Day 26.
Watering. Same procedure as three days ago. p.H - 6.5
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 26.2 degrees and 43% humidity.
22/10/2020 - Day 28.
Photographing and measuring plant height. Since the beginning of flowering, the motives for photography have doubled , so the number of photos has increased.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.5 degrees and 45% humidity.
Fat Banana Auto - Day 28. - 72 cm
This is it for the first week of flowering, now I still have to do defoliation and then with pleasure follow the development of flowers. See you soon. 🙌
Hello Diary.
The second week of flowering is behind me. 💪 As I announced last week, this week I did my first defoliation. I removed all the leaves from the lower branches and thus allowed her better airflow since there are three plants in the box. It was getting a little crowded already. 😏
As can be seen in the pictures, the flowers are developing nicely and have started to take on a fruity scent. 😋
Watering is every third day, when each plant in the box receives approximately 2.5 liters of water. I started adding CalMg preventively, 1.5 ml / lit and continuing with BioBizz, I will add it by feeling. I will see how the plants will react to this.
Here's what the week looked like:
23/10/2020 - Day 29.
Watering. This time I only added CalMg without BioBizz. p.H I regulated to 6.4 and the temperature of the water I water with is always around 20 degrees.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 26.5 degrees and 51% humidity.
24/10/2020 - Day 30.
Defoliation. As I wrote earlier, I cleaned the leaves on the lower branches and allowed better airflow and easier watering. 👍
26/10/2020 - Day 32.
Watering. I always prepare about 8 liters of water with which I water all three plants. This time I added both CalMg and BioBizz. p.H. - 6.4
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.4 degrees and 44% humidity.
29/10/2020 - Day 35.
Photographing and watering. I took photos for this week just in the box. I think I will only take photos on a black background for the last two weeks of flowering so as not to disturb them too much.
I then watered the plants only with water with regulated p.H at 6.4.
That's all for this week, so far everything is great and I hope it will continue that way. See you soon. 🙌
Hello Diary.
The third week of flowering is over, what I would comment on first this week is the scent. Fat Banana began to spread a wonderful fruity scent, like some fruity candy. 😋 So far on my small farm no strain has smelled like this at this stage of flowering.
The plant is full of flowers and as you can see in the photos, they fill up nicely. 👍
Brownish spots have started to appear on some leaves, I will monitor the development and try to detect what the cause is. 😯
Watering is standard, I water the plants about every three days. Preventively for now I add CalMg and every other time I add BioBizz. I am preparing about 7 lit. water with which I water all three plants evenly.
Here’s what he looked like all week.
02/11/2020 - Day 39.
Watering. I added BioBizz and preventive CalMg. p.H. I adjusted to 6.5 with Plagron’s Lemon Kick.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 26.7 degrees and 42% humidity.
05/11/2020 - Day 42.
Photographing and watering. This time I just regulated p.H. at 6.4 and I didn’t add anything else. Fat Banana really looks beautiful so I also took photos on a black background.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.6 degrees and 41% humidity.
That’s all for this week, see you soon.
Hello Diary.
Fourth week of flowering. The first thing I will point out is the amazing fruity scent of Fat Banana. I literally run out of saliva from the smell, I can’t wait to try the flavor.😋
As can be seen in the photos, the brown spots from last week have turned into whole yellow leaves with brown spots. 😟
I’m not 100% sure what caused it, but what’s possible is that she got too many nutrients. (Overfeeding)
Considering the RQS pellets I put in the ground, and the amount of BioBizz I added, it’s still maybe too much for Fat Banana. 😳
If anyone is reading this post, feel free to comment on your opinion for the cause of such leaves.🙏
Since her roommates, Haze Berry Automatic, have the same treatment, and there are no such symptoms on them, I'm not 100% sure about overfeeding.
Although I don’t add BioBizz every time I water, but when I add it, I put it on schedule for that week. Perhaps the concentration of nutrients in such watering is too high for this strain.
Let’s take a look at what happened last week.
07/11/2020 - Day 44.
Watering. I preventively added 1ml / l CalMg and regulated p.H. at 6.3 with Plagron’s Lemon Kick.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.4 degrees and 44% humidity.
09/11/2020 - Day 46.
Watering. Since I noticed leaf decay, I watered like two days earlier just by adding CalMg and I regulated p.H. at 6.4
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.7 degrees and 44% humidity.
12/11/2020 - Day 49.
Photographing and watering. This time I added BioBizz as scheduled for the current flowering week.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 24.8 degrees and 44% humidity.
Although Fat Banana shows yellow leaves and brown spots on some leaves, the flowers themselves have not been affected so far. We'll see how things go. See you soon. 🙌
Hello Diary.
The fifth week of flowering is over, and Fat Banana is slowly completing its cycle. Ten more days and we have a harvest. 😍
The “farm” is a real jungle, her roommates Haze Berry Auto have grown quite big but I think Fat Banana Auto will be leaving the “Farm” sooner. 😀
All the larger leaves on the plant have turned yellow and got pretty big brown spots, is it due to some problems caused by my treatment or is Fat Fat Banana just coming to the end of its cycle? I'm not entirely sure. (lack of experience) 😏
The flowers themselves look healthy, and smell like the finest sweets. The sweet-fruity scent overwhelms me as soon as I open the box. 😋
The flowers are compact and very sticky, as far as I can see now, it will be a good harvest. 💪
As we approached the end, I stopped adding nutrients and watered only with water to which I only regulated p.H. at 6.4.
In my case, it's a reduction because my house water is around 7.5 - 8.1 p.H, so I use Plagron's Lemon Kick for the descent, which does a good job. 👌
Here's what the week looked like.
15/11/2020 - Day 52.
Watering. Only water, without any nutrients with regulated p.H. at 6.4
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.5 degrees and 47% humidity.
18/11/2020 - Day 55.
Watering. Procedure as three days earlier.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.2 degrees and 48% humidity.
19/11/2020 - Day 56.
Photographing plants. As always, on the last day of the current week I am taking photos of “my little farm”. 😉
That’s it for this week, a little more and I will enjoy the fruits of the effort these past weeks. Thanks to everyone who takes a look at the diary and I hope that this information will be useful to someone. See you soon. 🙌
Hello Diary.
We have reached the end of the cycle of this fragrant beauty. There will be a harvest in 2-3 days.😍
Every day I use a small microscope to check when it will be ready. When the trichomes start to turn brown, then I will have a harvest, everything is already prepared. 💪
As can be seen in the pictures, most of the leaves are completely yellowed, the flowers themselves are beautiful green. 😀
At the end of the week I did a defoliation, I took off all the bigger leaves to give them better airiness in those last days and to give the flowers a little more energy. 💪
Watering is every three days and on her 61st day was the last watering before harvest.
p.H of water before watering I regulate with Plagron’s Lemon Kick. Always between 6.2 and 6.3
The temperature and humidity in the Box are great, almost ideal for this phase. 👌
Let’s take a look at what Fat Banana’s last week looked like.
21/11/2020 - Day 58.
Watering. p.H of water I regulated to 6.3.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 24.5 degrees and 38% humidity.
24/11/2020 - Day 61.
Watering. Same procedure as three days earlier.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.1 degrees and 40% humidity.
26/11/2020 - Day 63.
Photography and defoliation. As I wrote earlier, I removed all the larger leaves for better airflow and to give the flowers a little more energy. I photographed Fat Banana for the last week of flowering, since I will have a harvest in a few days, I will take the final photos on a black background. I'm really looking forward to it.
In the end, what to say? Considering the scent and the beautiful flowers, the harvest will be great. See you soon with the last post for this beauty.
Hello Diary.
We have reached the end of the journey.🙌 Fat Banana exceeded my expectations in every way. Smell, taste, yield. In the end I got a little less than 70g of dried flowers which is above average for my farm. 💪
Here's how it all went since the last call.
28/11/2020 - Day 65.
Harvest. I checked with a microscope and most of the trichomes are milky and about 5% have turned brown. Everything is ready. After the last photo shoot, I cut the plant at the very bottom of the stalk.
Before that, I prepared a handmade cardboard box in which I would put the branches to dry for a minimum of 10 days.
After hanging the branches in the box, I put the box back in the grow box, between Haze Berry who had further extended their stay at the Farm.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 24.5 degrees and 38% humidity.
10/12/2020 - Day 77.
After 12 days of drying, I took the dry branches out of the box and pruned the rest of the dry leaves. I put the dried flowers in jars, put in moisture fighters for better moisture regulation and for better curing.
Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.5 degrees and 39% humidity.
20/12/2020 - Day 87.
Tasting. Great smoke, fruity tropical flavor.
A brief overview of the whole story.
Fat Banana Auto (Royal Queen Sees) - 18/09/2020 - Sprouted - 28/11/2020 - Harvest - Total 72 days.
Three weeks of vegetation and six weeks of flowering.
I did a small defoliation twice.
A total of 68 g of yield.
The best strain so far on my Farm.
Finally, I would like to thank James from the Royal Queen Seeds, for his support, seeds and nutrients. And I would like to thank all of you who support me and give advice with the help of which I also grow along with my plants. Many thanks to everyone and see you soon with the new diaries.🙌
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