Banana Purple Punch Auto

Nugget_head88 Watered with Rhizotonic and calmag, I'm using calmag as my water is 60-80ppm out of the tap and there is very little calcium & magnesium present, on the next watering I will start with following the canna feed chart with it set to light feeding. I'll be aiming to feed once a week but will see how she responds. I'm using VPD and DLI as a guide for my conditions so currently lights are on for 20 hours as they will be for the duration and I currently have them about 25cm away on the 25% setting, putting out around 160 PPFD, so DLI is at 11ish and VPD is sat around 0.5kpa on average, this will increase incrementally throughout the grow. Update - missed day 6 photo...oops but I have moved the humidifier into the tent as a bit of an experiment as I wasn't happy with how erratic the conditions were day to day, even with the humidifier on a set humidity, the conditions varied wildly. Update - day 7 I raised the lights to around 55cm away and increased the strength to 50 percent, for 2 reasons, one to increase PPFD to around 220 and also to generate a bit more heat as the temps started to drop lower than i wanted, I should really get a controller so I can raise it in 1% increments but that's one for another time. I decided to just water with calmag and Rhizotonic again as she seems happy. Week 1 complete, All going well so far.

Nugget_head88 26/05/2025, Start of week 2, looking nice and healthy. 29/05/2025 fed today. 01/06/2025, end of week 2, no issues everything seems to be going well.

Nugget_head88 02/06/2025, start of week 3, decided to do a bit of LST (tied down main stem) let's see how she responds. Reduced humidity by around 8% to increase leaf VPD to between 0.7 and 1.0 kpa, and lowered the light a little more, increasing to around 300 PPFD for this week. Hoping to see a bit of a rush of growth once she recovers from the LST as I expect flowering will start in the next 2 weeks and need her to fill out a.s.a.p Update 04/06/2025, Looks like I should have probably waited for the next node to stretch a little and then tied her down as I could have brought the top full level with the the other shoots and perhaps encourage better branching as this particular girl doesn't seem to be very branchy, this may change though, will probably have to bend her again but time it better so I can actually tie round the very top instead of one node down and hopefully then encourage some real branching and filling out. Another lesson learned for this rookie. Update: 06/06/2025, fed at 1.2 ec ph 6.2. Update 08/08/2025, end of week, should have waited at least a couple more days to water, she looks over watered, not terrible though and looking better this morning than yesterday morning, will make sure she is properly dry next time.

Nugget_head88 09/06/2025, start of week 4, a bit annoyed with myself for overwatering as it's set me back by a few days at least but she's not looking too bad and can hopefully achieve a good stretch now she's showing some preflowers. 12/06/2025, watered with 1ml/l calmag only (0.4 EC) and PH'd down to 6.2, backed the light off a little as the leaves were cupping quite a bit. 14/06/2025, looking much happier, starting to stretch. 15/06/2025, end of week 4, looked much happier the last few days and stretch is definitely starting, I have tucked her today and might do again in a couple of days but beyond that I'll just let her go.

Nugget_head88 Monday 16/06/2025, start of week 5. The stretch is underway and has been for a few days, happy with how she looks health-wise currently although I've made some mistakes along the way that she has had to recover from. i made one final tuck under the net on day 29 (17/06/2025) although it's not a proper scrog by any stretch of the imagination, it's helped keep the canopy level so the side branching could catch up, and I'm letting her go now, hoping she stretches a good 20-30cm but we will see. Day 30, fed at 1.2ec, was probably 12 hours late on the watering as she did not look happy at all, bounced straight back though once fed. Day 31, not much to report, a lighter shade on the newest growth but to be expected at this stage, I've pinched a few of the lower fan leaves over the last few days. Day 32 backed the lights off slightly as the leaves were looking a little light stressed. Day 34, fed with calmag and water only at 0.4 ec, forgot to ph it down but hopefully it won't matter too much in soil, she's had a good stretch over the last day or 2. 22/06/2025, end of week 5, happy with the progress this week, pinched a few more leaves today and reorganised the canopy a bit, had a bit of a heatwave over the last few days so had to increase the humidity to compensate, this also helped with the temps although she did have to deal with temps around 28c for quite a few hours and up to 29c for a very short time, didn't seem to have any ill effects though, temps now settled back around 26c. Looking forward to seeing some bud development in the upcoming week.

Nugget_head88 23/06/2025, beginning of week 6, she had a mad stretch, after a bit of light stress previously I was cautious and probably waited a little too long to increase intensity, once I did she definitely slowed down although she looks like it might be time to focus on flowering. 24/06/2025, she was looking a little dry so i gave a full feed but was really unsure whether to give one last dose of veg nutes or switch to the flowering nutes as it's so close to the stretch being finished.. I think...🤣. So I decided to use a half dose of each, will see if that was the right choice, she's still a very nice shade of green so it's possible I could have gone straight to flowering nutes. Pinched a couple more leaves, will strip all the undergrowth in the next few days. 25/06/2025, looking much happier today after a feed yesterday, although I do have a couple of leaves that are lightening up somewhat and it looks like she's still stretching so I'm now thinking a full dose of veg nutes might have been optimal to avoid any nitrogen deficiency later on, there's no serious signs of deficiency yet but I'll be keeping a close eye on the couple of leaves that are showing a small issue.