diff --git a/src/plotting/postprocessing_plotting.py b/src/plotting/postprocessing_plotting.py
index 19c511d9b6f8442ea30ec7f7623b0f2f598f5cc2..b8f67e3393c4443fed523902765278654e78a0a9 100644
--- a/src/plotting/postprocessing_plotting.py
+++ b/src/plotting/postprocessing_plotting.py
@@ -215,9 +215,6 @@ class PlotConditionalQuantiles(AbstractPlotClass):
         :param obs_name: name of observation as stored in netCDF file (for example "obs")
         :param kwargs: Some further arguments which are listed in self._opts
         """
-
-        logging.debug(f"started plot_conditional_quantiles()")
-
         super().__init__(plot_folder, "conditional_quantiles")
 
         self._data_pred_path = data_pred_path
@@ -375,6 +372,7 @@ class PlotConditionalQuantiles(AbstractPlotClass):
         self._plot_base(data=self._data, x_model=self._model_name, y_model=self._obs_name, plot_name_affix="cali-ref")
         self._plot_base(data=self._data, x_model=self._obs_name, y_model=self._model_name, plot_name_affix="like-base")
 
+    @TimeTrackingWrapper
     def _plot_base(self, data, x_model, y_model, plot_name_affix, season=""):
         """
         Base method to create cond. quantile plots. Is called from _plot_all and _plot_seasonal