Solitary Watermelon Auto

drakkon My Watermelon Automatic is doing fine on day seven. It's working on a third set of leaves and appears relatively healthy. There are a few light spots on one leaf, which I will monitor. Calculating the watering volume is difficult, because this week I watered it by submerging it and letting it absorb water from the bottom and sides.

drakkon The Watermelon Automatic is doing swell at 14 days. She appears healthy overall, except for a few tiny spots on a leaf or two, which I will monitor. She got a plain-water misting several times per day, and I expect to transplant and top her soon.

drakkon It was an eventful week for the Watermelon Automatic. She was topped on day 18 and transplanted on day 19 without suffering any shock or slowdown. At the time of topping, I also pruned the two branches from her first node, which now leaves her with nodes #2, #3, #4 and #5, for a total of eight main branches. She is currently growing nicely and appears healthy. Each day, I mist her with water several times. I have not fed her any nutrients beyond what's in the Happy Frog soil, other than some mycorrhizae I added during transplant. Training will commence in the upcoming week.

drakkon The Watermelon Automatic appears happy and healthy, and she underwent training this week. I fertigated her once with half-strength grow nutrients and once with diluted cal-mag. She looks great to me for a plant at day 28.

drakkon The Watermelon Automatic is growing fast and has not yet started to flower. There are pre-flowers at many branch sites, but the growing tips still appear like vegetative growth. I did introduce some dilute bloom nutrients to her watering regimen, as I expect she'll start flowering soon. Training and light defoliation continue. She's starting to have quite a lot of secondary branches and potential bud sites, which looks promising.