New Grower Red Strawberry Banana

[Suki]

I think its @Waira who has a really awesome write up on the where and why on defoliating

 

[narnia420]

I’ll check it up now, thanks a lot

 

[WildBill]

I think @WildBill uses something like that?

I'd rather do a full bloom J, all sorts of fruits, but nanner J is mainly for potassium.

Still good stuff! Peels N All go in.

 

[narnia420]

Day 36
I’ve done more lst to free up some space for the plants. Fun times. Light sits a bit higher now as i forgot to adjust it when plants got bigger, it’s at 18 inches now. One leaf turns yellow i guess that was because of light. I cut off 4 fan leaves in total, they were huge and blocked a lot of light, all of them at lower branches. Not much of a change but in a week i’ll cut another 3/4 and that should be enough for some time hopefully. One plant suffer from purple stems more and more with every day but it’s getting only water for 2 weeks, is soil too hot? biobizz allmix. also, the plant in the back(the one with purple stems) seems to have very tough soil surface and absorbs water a bit differently than others two. When it’s dry it’s still quite tough while other can be dig(diggen, digged? idk lol sorry) with fingers easily. I’ve read somewhere once about issue similar to this which caused plant to absorb infinite amounts of nutrients but i’m not sure if that’s real. Apart of that, one plant starts developing purple buds.
Btw do i cut off leaves closest to stem or closest to leave?

 

[MonteVerde]

Day 36
I’ve done more lst to free up some space for the plants. Fun times. Light sits a bit higher now as i forgot to adjust it when plants got bigger, it’s at 18 inches now. One leaf turns yellow i guess that was because of light. I cut off 4 fan leaves in total, they were huge and blocked a lot of light, all of them at lower branches. Not much of a change but in a week i’ll cut another 3/4 and that should be enough for some time hopefully. One plant suffer from purple stems more and more with every day but it’s getting only water for 2 weeks, is soil too hot? biobizz allmix. also, the plant in the back(the one with purple stems) seems to have very tough soil surface and absorbs water a bit differently than others two. When it’s dry it’s still quite tough while other can be dig(diggen, digged? idk lol sorry) with fingers easily. I’ve read somewhere once about issue similar to this which caused plant to absorb infinite amounts of nutrients but i’m not sure if that’s real. Apart of that, one plant starts developing purple buds.
Btw do i cut off leaves closest to stem or closest to leave?

Lookin good!

 

[R Wayne]

We do have very similar setups. I was wondering if I could fit 3 plants in my tent, so I'll be watching to see how they grow very exciting...they are looking great btw

 

[narnia420]

We do have very similar setups. I was wondering if I could fit 3 plants in my tent, so I'll be watching to see how they grow very exciting...they are looking great btw

thanks you! for now the three ladies are doing good but it was definetely lot of tying down, shuffling and stuff, even though i know i’ll finish these in that specific tent, i’ll never do this again to myself and i’ll just go with 2 big pots or 4 small lots of fun rn anyway

 

[narnia420]

Day 39(i suppose? lol)
Busy day today, i had an hour or so to take care of the plants, so i started feeding them with bio flores and bio boost, plant in the back wasn’t fed for over 2 weeks now but still shows yellow tips. Gonna go very easy on her as stems go purple a lot too. I cut off more fan leaves from the bottom of all plants. Some little bud sites develop at lower branches, they will never get enough light so i’m just thinking to chop it off too to allow them focus more on top bud sites? Good idea? Also as from beginner experience, smart pot seems to be tricky when watering in flowering stage, as the water drips through the pot very quickly with the amounts they drinking lol. Apart of that i have bad feeling in my guts about their health, i hope im just being paranoid. Didn’t have time to take better photos, i’ll take and post more if i’m gone be home before the lights go off. Enjoy your friday guys!

 

[Suki]

They look pretty good to me! The yellow tips that are already there won't get any less yellow, as long as you're not getting new yellowing you should be good.

 

[narnia420]

So the purple stem plant now also get some yellowing leaves(not just tips). I was going really easy on her i don’t know what causes that. I’m doing research about removing all lower leaves and branches now and getting mixed signals, humidity went from 50% to almost 60% and i guess that’s due to lower air circulation in the lower parts. Don’t wanna stress them out too much though. The other 2 plants looking very good. I think i’ll just test defoliate one or two and compare it with the other not trimmed. Any thoughts?