New Grower RQS Fat Banana Auto by Myskellos

[Myskellos]

Hello everyone, I'm going to finish my first round of grow with a Fat Banana and a Quick one within a few weeks.

Since we're going to be in lockdown again at least one month... Well... Let's make a good use of this home time

This time I will run just one plant, a RQS Fat Banana Auto. I dropped the bean yesterday in a small plastic glass with Biobizz Light Mix, few drops of water and some cling film on top. I put the glass on the led light plate, so that is going to be warm. I would prefer place to the seed straight into the final pot but there is not much space left in the tent.

Now that I have a decent ph pen I am able to control the ph of watering and feeding straight from the beginning. I want also to avoid messing up with nutes as my current growing... So yeah pretty excited I must say

I will document here as thoroughly as possible, avoiding paper journals as done up to now, maybe with your help I will have a good yield for the summer!

Hear ya when the seeds break off the soil! :smoking:

 

[Myskellos]

Yey everyone, say hello to the baby seedling
It sprouted on 1st of March and today has been transplanted into the final 5gal fabric pot.

Hope I did it fine! Some specs about the setup:
- Soil is Biobizz light mix
- nutes are the BioGrow, biobloom and topmax of biobizz
- light is a marshydro ts1000 (150w)

 

[Harukisan]

Yey everyone, say hello to the baby seedling
It sprouted on 1st of March and today has been transplanted into the final 5gal fabric pot.

Hope I did it fine! Some specs about the setup:
- Soil is Biobizz light mix
- nutes are the BioGrow, biobloom and topmax of biobizz
- light is a marshydro ts1000 (150w)

Good luck I love Fat Banana Auto, a delicious strain to vape.

 

[Myskellos]

Quick update, now it's 17 days old and still on plain water. Up to now I kept the soil slightly wet, today I gave it a good amount of distilled water (since my tap water sucks...).

I also did the first LST session. Everything seems to be ok, no spots or whatever. Just the first set of leaves grown a little 'twisted'.

Now I'm not sure if wait until the first signs of deficiencies to introduce the veg bloom and the top max of biobizz. Or maybe during the next watering (I guess the weekend) I can start the veg nute.

Any advice? Thanks!!

 

[Myskellos]

Day 30: did some LST and watered. I didn't gave it a single drop of nute, but I don't see any deficiency yet. It's getting bigger and bigger and seems very healthy.

In comparison to the one of the first grow, it has a thicker stems and stiff leaves.

Cheers

 

[Myskellos]

Hi everyone! Day 45 here, the baby is flowering.

The plant is thickening, it has stopped the stretch.

I can see some dark little dots spread among the middle leaves, that to me looks like Ca deficiency. Also the top new leaves seems to have some intervenial chlorosis (see pictures). To this plant I give really nothing (except distilled water or tap water brought down to 100 ppm) up to day 37.

Day 37: This was the first veg fertilization, with only Biobizz BioGrow. I used 2 lt of tap water at 100 ppm, added BG 1 ml/l -> 2 ml. The nute solution had 436 ppm; pH 6.3.

Then a few days later (day 41) I saw that the plant was full flowering and looked stunted, so I introduced the flowering nutes in the following composition:

3 lt distilled water
CalMag 0.3 ml/l -> 1 ml (Water + Calmag = 31 ppm)
BG 1 ml/l -> 3 ml
BB 0.5 ml/l -> 1.5 ml
TopMax 1 ml/l -> 3 ml

Final solution: 390 ppm; 6.4 pH

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To help to debug the dark dots problem I did a runoff test this morning, which gave me a pH of 6.8 and a TDS of 350-400 ppm.
I also did a slurry test (1:1 soil and distilled water, stirred up and let sit for a few hours, then sifted and measured): 130 ppm and 7.15 pH.

I'm pretty confused about what to do. Any advice?

 

[DDubs]

Little high on the pH scale? I found that even a few points out of the 6.3-6.7 range can affect my plants. Wont kill it but definitely affect vigor.

 

[Myskellos]

Yeah my feeling is the same, pH seems a bit on the high side. I will try to lower it down on next watering and I will keep an eye on the marking evolution