Edit from 19th May. Literally 00:09
Pre-Flowering.
Fat Banana looks like Hermie.
Royal Critical = clean pre-flower.
Edit from 19th May. 16:26
Fat Banana had balls sack and pistils growing all over the place. I nuked everything that had balls on it. I left only top node with pistils.
Royal Critical is full of pistils, no balls.
Now I wish I had photoperiod seeds instead of automatics. I would give Critical 1 extra week in veg. She is around 10-15cm smaller then Fat Banana.
I switched the lights back to 400W.
Edit from 20th May. 14:45
I think 32C is maximum what these plants can handle. With 600W I was reaching 34C on some top leaves and that could possibly turn the Fat Banana into hermit (she was the tallest). I open the tent a little (front doors), I put big-ass fan on second gear blowing strong wind through the mesh-window of a tent. I put the lights straight up to the ceiling, I literally can't put them any higher.
Fat banana is now 58cm tall and around 80cm away from the light.
Royal Critical is now 41cm tall and around 100cm away from the light.
50% Humidity
28C under the canopy/on the ground under the leaves
31C Air temperature.
Fat Banana fan leaves temperature: 28.5C
Fat Banana center/middle of the plant: 30.9C
Royal Critical fan leaves temperature: 27.5C
Royal Critical center/middle of the plant: 27.8C
NOTE: Royal Critical ugly/yellow leaves have higher temp: 29-30C
The rest of small plants range from 28 and 32C
Surface area/soil temperature DRY: 35C
Surface/Soil temp. WET/SHADOW: 28-29C
That pistol/laser for checking temps was solid purchase. I can see back of my tent is more hot then other areas. Will do more Temp-Checks in the future.
I also deleted few things from "Condition" tab because one day they are correct, the other something change and the info is not accurate anymore. I'll update info here in edits.
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Farm Control Sheet
Date: 20th May 2024
Time: 16:57
Tent status: Side doors little bit open. Both windows fully open. Fan blowing air on second gear outside the tent, West window. Fan insides on full.
Lights power: 400W
Lights schedule: 18/6
Humidity: 50%
Dry soil temp: 35C
Wet soil temp:β¨ 28.5C
Fan leaves temp: 28.5C
β¨Center of the flower temp: 30C
β¨Stem temp: ~32C
β¨Air temp. Inside tent: 30-32C
β¨Air temp. Outside tent: 25.5C
β¨Air temp. Outside house:β¨ 21C
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Farm Control Sheet
Date:β¨ 21th May 2024
Time:β¨ 15:53
Tent status:β¨ Side windows full open. Front doors 75% open. Big-ass-fan on second gearwest window.
Lights power:β¨ 400W
Lights schedule:β¨ 18/6
Humidity:β¨ 50%
Dry soil temp:β¨ 36C-38C in front // 38C-40C in back
Wet soil temp:
β¨Fan leaves temp: 28-29Cβ¨β¨
β¨β¨Stem temp: 29C
β¨β¨Air temp. Inside tent: 31C
β¨β¨Air temp. Outside tent:β¨β¨ 26C
Air temp. Outside house: 20C
Details:
Smol plants growing stronk! They have little bit crumbled leaves cuz of heat I guess.
32C @ 50% RH is max for my setup.
Edit from 22th May. @ 13:10
Nothing changes. Plants are happy and praying to their god ( me ofc :) )
Same temps
Same RH
I watered them yesterday after long days/weeks of dry season (cuz of FuckYouGnats).
Edit from 23th May. @ 11:40am
Same temps or even a bit lower then in last two days. I like it. I closed 85% of windows in tent (door fully closed) to create negative pressure that's gonna suck out the hot air. It seems to work better than what I did yesterday.
Today I gave them second dose of nematodes. There is really very little Fungus Gnats around now. Sometimes, occasionally one or two "teenagers" or "baby" Gnats would fly out from bottom of pot or top of the soil after watering but that's like nothing comparing to what I had at the beginning.
Shit-ton of yellow-sticky-tape does the job as well, just put it everywhere you can.
/ What I'm singing to Lady Banan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZEddFi1W8k
/ What I'm singing to Lady Banan?
Edit from 23th May @ 2pm
So I'm reading about VPD now and I think, this is what is happening in my tent right now. High temps but RH at right levels makes the plant comfy in that zones.
Right now plants sitting at 30.6C @ 55% RH
So I'm sitting at 1.27 VPD? If I could lower my temps to 29C and keep RH at 55% that would be 1.20 VPD (which would be perfect)
N o t B a d R o o k I e
Edit from 24th May @ 11:24 am
So in last 3 days the temperature outside my house is dropping + raining. So that means I have perfect VPD in my tent now. We are sitting at 30C @ 50-55% RH. Most plants have praying leaves, even Lady Banan stops being moody and just start fucking flowering like it should. Finally. But I can see she wanna grow even more upwards, like wtf, this is not 3 meter tent, its only 2.2m, chill the freaking out Lady Banan... Im gonna have literal forest if the rest of Bananas would grow like that.
As you can see I'm kinda happy with the grow now. Fungus Gnats still present but under control. Yellow Sticky tape, especially under the mesh window, the tape is catching fuck-ton of these motherfuckers.
Few days ago I did "Very Light Stress Training" with Royal Critical. So I basically just tackle the fan leaves in the way, where, when fan leaves are growing bigger, they push the side branches more to the outside (apologize for my English but you can check out the pictures and see what I mean). So she is training by her self, alone, with the power of nature = and it works, she is opening more and more every 2 days.
Edit from 25th May @ 21:53
Yoyoyoyoyoyo! So my ADHD and Bipolar kicks in so Idgaf about temps, its colder, around 29C @ 45%
They got a lot of fresh air today, I was "luchting" today.
I think I had to water them today but... Will do tomorrow morning.
I'm thinking about Pimpology classes for myself, for better communication with the bitches, you know what I mean... They ain't thickening up if they aint stressing!
Edit from 26th May. Sunday. 7am
DOUBLE DROP
NEVER STOP
LET THAT BEAUTY POP
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PLANT SIZE:
BANAN = 72CM
CRITICAL = 65CM
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