Hello Guyz,
happy to be back with you and another weekly report :)
It's been a productive week for watermelon girls, they're doing quite good and they're ready for flowering! :)
Slight signs of magnesium and calcium deficiencies are gone and overall health of the plants is as they deserve.
I performed a slight LST today to open the structure of the plants!.
Other than that no news so far, lets the flowering begin :))
Last but not least, thanks for stopping by and all your comments and likes. Have a great week!
@Green_Dream, Hmm, it would be quite impossible for me to water them twice a day and also I'm using 15 liter pots. I will probably be giving them nutrients every second watering from now and flush them 3 -4 times until the end of flowering.
So far i hadn't have any bigger issues expect from a mild nutrient burn every now and then bot nothing serious. And surely it's a good idea to gave a EC meter if growing in COCO :) I'll have to get one for sure!
@ReinDeer,
If you can, do it every day, events twice a day if possible. The salts build up super fast when the coco gets dry, you should see that in the EC/ppm of the run off.
Whenever I had the chance I used my dripping system with coco, feeding 6 times a day, every time with a bit of run off, and every 2nd day I topped up manually to make sure the coco if fully saturated, the girls loved it!
Well... I guess you already know all that 😅
@Green_Dream, Thank you! I'm watering them every second day now letting the coco to dry in between :) I'm feeding giving the ladies every watering, this round trying with low feeding schedule and it works totally fine for now :)
@Newbie_01, Thank you my friend. I put 5 plants this time in the tent but the overgrew the capacity and they're overcrowded.
I chopped two plants now and it seems only 2 buds have been affected, so hopefully no major damage was done :)
And I have a week or few days more to chop the remaining three :) I can't wait to try them.. But they first need to dry and cured at least for 2 weeks :))
@Green_Dream, yes, indeed, and it seems the girls like prefertilized coco a lot. I've been using ATAMI High porosity coco for more than a year now and I like it a lot! I gave first dose of nutrients today in the morning and I can already see a difference, it's amazing how quickly they react to them :))
That's amazing man and super cheap. I should take a look and order one for myself!!
@ReinDeer,
Ahhh... now I get it! I couldn’t understand how they got so big without nuts. I didn’t even imagine that coco can come prefertilised.
Yes, I make my own RO water with an Easy line 190 filter, I’ve been making at least 1000l water with EC on 0.02 and it still works as new.
Here’s a link for a company that sells it in the Netherlands, they send worldwide:
https://www.seaflowerstore.com/easy-line-190/
They sell it for 60€ + 15€ for shipping, unless u live in Holland, then free shipping 😃
I gave about 90 for it in Denmark.
I really like being able to have complete control over the ppm.
@Green_Dream,Thanks man :) Indeed they're hungry, I've been giving them only tap water with controlled pH to 5.8 as the COCO I'm using prefertilized medium:)
I don't use RO water but I'm checking local water analysis reports for the electricity conductivity which is above 350 PPM.
Do you prepare RO water on your own?
i was skipping through gd.. and had to stop at you diary,,, i looked closer and was reading the name.. and thought .. well who else
what i want to say is i know your diaries by the kind of photography you do.....
dramatic, sharp, deep pictures
@Mrs_Larimar, thank you so much, I’m thrilled to read such nice comments💚🙂 I wish I could take advantage of natural light but the smell is too intense to put them out to balcony 🙁just for a sake of safetiness😀
Try to tell me again that you are not a Master !! Damn bro, it looks like you grow trees and not plants!! 2 liters for day, everyday is something of incredible, They drink as much as a man 😁😁
I am really happy for you and for the results you are getting from these girls, in my opinion you will need a bigger tent for the next round 😆😆
Thank you so much mate :)) I mean, I really don't consider myself a pro, I'm doing this for fun but this time they're just totally over my expectation, they're beasts :D
I didn't expect the will fill the tent in a such a volume, but here I am :)
I'll be posting an update of 8th week of flowering very soon.. I can't express myself how huge they are. Unfortunately I don't have a space for a bigger tent :(