Mandala Seeds - Satori Grow

Looking good so far, really nice compact plants. I usually find that if you underestimate that smaller one it will come back and bite you, because it may well turn out to be your best fem.

nongreenthumb said:

Looking good so far, really nice compact plants. I usually find that if you underestimate that smaller one it will come back and bite you, because it may well turn out to be your best fem.

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Thanks ngt, I appreciate your comments I'm actually hoping for big things from my little plant. It might be small, but it's packing on so much bulk! It's growing kind of sideways at a bit of an angle, which I kind of like too. It's certainly different! I do hope it's a girl anyway. It will be interesting to see how it clones/roots, cos it started life being a proper little freak......bless!!

SnowWhite said:

Thanks ngt, I appreciate your comments I'm actually hoping for big things from my little plant. It might be small, but it's packing on so much bulk! It's growing kind of sideways at a bit of an angle, which I kind of like too. It's certainly different! I do hope it's a girl anyway. It will be interesting to see how it clones/roots, cos it started life being a proper little freak......bless!!

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I have a freak too, i don't know if it's how yours was, i just posted a picture of it in my journal.

nongreenthumb said:

I have a freak too, i don't know if it's how yours was, i just posted a picture of it in my journal.

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Nope, mine was totally different to yours. It didn't germinate till day 9 or 10, at least 4-5 days after all the others, and then the first young leaves were so deformed and a very light green colour, almost yellow. But she's getting a lot better looking with age!

SnowWhite said:

Nope, mine was totally different to yours. It didn't germinate till day 9 or 10, at least 4-5 days after all the others, and then the first young leaves were so deformed and a very light green colour, almost yellow. But she's getting a lot better looking with age!

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Sounds a lot like the Satori I got!

Germinated in about the same time frame after all the others as you described and also started life with very light coloured green leaves, also like yours! The upside is, that plant turned out to be the most vigorous and healthy plant of pretty much all of them and will probably yield the most - it's certainly the tallest!

Keep your fingers crossed yours turns out the same

babygro said:

Sounds a lot like the Satori I got!

Germinated in about the same time frame after all the others as you described and also started life with very light coloured green leaves, also like yours! The upside is, that plant turned out to be the most vigorous and healthy plant of pretty much all of them and will probably yield the most - it's certainly the tallest!

Keep your fingers crossed yours turns out the same

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Very odd....it must of got bred in to the strain somewhere along the line. It's all good though, growth is certainly vigorous and there's loads of good shoots for cuttings. I just hope it's a girl too!!

I actually took an early unexpected cutting last night. I was getting pissed off with my tallest plant (had about a 1-2 inches on the others) making me raise my lights....so I thought I'd just top the fucker! And instead of throwing the top away, I dipped it in a bit of clonex and dumed it in one of my root riot cubes that I purchased the other day. It's now just sitting on a window ledge in my small propagator. Hopefully it will root nicely and turn out to be a girl as well! The growth on this one is very nice as well actually. I know being the tallest it will probably turn out male, but I will keep my fingers crossed anyway.

looking nice so far man

turbo said:

looking nice so far man

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Thanks turbo....I'm well pleased with their progress!

It's the middle of week 5. 39 days since I popped the seeds into the dirt and it's starting to get interesting now! I'm pretty certain I'm seeing some pre-flowers developing, but I'm not toally sure on them yet, so I'm not going to comment any more on this for now.

I am seeing some slight N and Mg def, so I've given them all a nice light feed of Bio Grow (1ml/litre) and also foliar fed some Epsom Salts with a very light Alg-a-mic dose. I think they will like this feed a lot! They'll be getting nice fresh soil soon as well, they will like this even more!

My roots are starting to poke out the bottom of my 6" pots, so I know they are very ready for the final repot, which will be happening on Friday. I'm going for a 10l (aprox 2.5 gal) final pot size this time. Last grow I used 15l (aprox 4 gal) pots for flowering, but I think 10l will work much better for me in my space this time, but we'll see.

Here's some pics anyway.....

Front left is the one I topped.
Middle one is my 'runt'....this plant is insane, it's going to be be a BUSH!! Please be a girl!

Lots of work has been done for my Satori grow today......my flowering space had just been sat empty and untouched since I harvested my first grow. So I had to give it a very good clean out and also make some modifications before my Satoris go in there. I've now installed a 4" fan for my intake, this should give me better control of my temps. I just had some passive vents before.

So here's my new intake...YAY! It's doing very well on this hot August day!



All the Satoris are now in their new home as well and repotted up to 11l (3 gal) pots, using the same soil mix as before. The root growth was crazy!!



They are now under a 400W Grolux HPS.

I was going to take some cuttings today as well, but I have to go away next week with work, so I won't be able to give the cuttings the attention they will need. But when I am back next week I will take some cuttings then.

I plan to switch to 12/12 a week on Monday.....that will make it 7 1/2 weeks veg!

Snowhite, great grow here and unreal plants.... thick and bushy! Anyway two questions for you and if they are somwhere in your journal I apologize as I did not see it. 1. How long after germ did you wait to put them under the 400W Grolux? 2. Have you been using the Growlux the entire veg period and do you plan to flower with it? Keep it up!

nice work on the Inline fan! Got mine not to long ago, its makes suck a big differnce!

SylvanElf said:

Snowhite, great grow here and unreal plants.... thick and bushy! Anyway two questions for you and if they are somwhere in your journal I apologize as I did not see it. 1. How long after germ did you wait to put them under the 400W Grolux? 2. Have you been using the Growlux the entire veg period and do you plan to flower with it? Keep it up!

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Thanks mate. They went under the 400W HPS just on Friday. Till then, they had been under 2 x 125W envirolites.

mattso101 said:

nice work on the Inline fan! Got mine not to long ago, its makes suck a big differnce!

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Cheers matt...yeah, it really helps. But my grow room still gets a bit hot in the middle of a hot summers days to be honest. But that is why I am growing the Mandala genetics, because they are supposed to be very heat tolerant. We'll see....it's gonna be another hot day today!

It's been a week since I potted up my Satori's and they're loving it. The growth over the last week has been incredible!! I'm well pleased.

I'm still not certain of my femlaes yet, I am being patient/cautious with this for now. I will just put them all into flower and see how they turn out. I think I will change to 12/12 on Monday, but I might leave it another week to let roots fill out in the new pots a bit more.

I took cuttings yesterday from the lower branches. They are now in my propagator. I'm just used root riot cubes and a bit of clonex rooting hormone, and misting with mineral water.

The plant I topped/cloned a couple of weeks has taken roots now It took 14 days exactly for a tiny root to poke out of the root riot cube. I'm gonna leave this one a few more days to develop some stronger roots, then I will pot it up into some nice soil. I'm really hoping this one is a girl, cos she'll make a great mother I think....and it's 2 weeks ahead of any of the other cuttings I've just taken. Please be a girl!!

Anyways, here's some pics.....

Clones



And all the others...

Snowhite, so what made you decide to veg for 7 weeks over the usuall, from what I have read, 6 weeks? Was it size or did they start to auto-flower?

SylvanElf said:

Snowhite, so what made you decide to veg for 7 weeks over the usuall, from what I have read, 6 weeks? Was it size or did they start to auto-flower?

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Auto flower? No mate...I'm not growing a low-ryder here.

Slightly longer veg, for better roots = better buds!! Just how I like to do it. Each to their own though!

Obviously if head room in my grow space was a concern, I would flower sooner, but I'm still ok on the height front.

Today is Day 1 of flowering!! I have just changed my timer for the 12/12 cycle. Happy Days!!

Ideally, I would like to have left them a few more days to root out into their bigger pots a bit more, but I don't want them to get any bigger now before flowering.

I think I have identified one male so far, but I will give it a few days in flower to be sure. My suspect male, is of course the plant I topped a few weeks back, that I have a rooted clone of. Typical!! I always kind of knew that this one would be male though as this plant was really trying to grow TALL!

Some pictures to mark the start of flowering will follow shortly!

Just a quick update on the girl count....

Satori #3 and #4 confirmed today as girls. I have found some tiny white pistils coming through about half way up! YAY!!

Satori #1, I'm sure is male, but not quite 100% sure. I'm still watching this one.

Satori #2 and #5 are still unconfirmed. Maybe get confirmation on these in the next days or so. Fingers crossed! I'll keep you posted.