Mandala Seeds - Satori Grow

SnowWhite, what temps are you running, max day and min night, for flowering?

SylvanElf said:

SnowWhite, what temps are you running, max day and min night, for flowering?

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31 degrees C max day (can get hotter on hot days, but Mandala strains can take it) Average around 28 degrees C (ish!)

9 degrees C was my minimum temp the other night, so I've now put my greenhouse heater on during the night, which keeps my night time temps around 17 degrees C.

I'm growing in my garden shed, which is why I need a little heater to take the edge off now the nights are getting a bit colder.

Wow, a bit hotter than I expected but you are right, the Mandala site does talk about the better heat tolerance thier strains have. A heater!?! man it is still pushing 90F here in the day and just around 70F at night, sucks.

SylvanElf said:

Wow, a bit hotter than I expected but you are right, the Mandala site does talk about the better heat tolerance thier strains have. A heater!?! man it is still pushing 90F here in the day and just around 70F at night, sucks.

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Yeah, it's a bit hotter than I would like it during the day to be honest, but that was part of the reason for me choosing Mandala strains, becasue of their heat resistance. It will be better for me in Winter, it's a lot easier to keep a grow room warm!

Yep, I'm afraid I need a heater too! I only run it for a few hours during the night on it's lowest setting. With outside night time temps down to 9C (48F) in the UK at the moment, I need it.

I thought about running my lights at night instead of a heater, but this is just not practical for me with the daily checks that I like to do in my grow space.

Just took some more pics, not really much change except some good growth and a bit of stretching, but i like to take pics anyway Check it out.......




btw....I've done very little feeding so far. Only a small amount of BioGrow around week 4/5-ish and a little Alg-a-mic and Epsom salt foilar feeding, apart from that, they've just been feeding from my nice soil. I will probably give them a light feed of BioGrow and Bloom this weekend.

Some clone pics....just one week old.



Another week and they should have some good roots! I should also be sure of all my males by then as well, so I will know which ones to keep. I will then select a mother plant to keep in veg for further cuttings and then just flower all the other female clones. Nice!

I planted 4 of my Hashberry seeds into some soil 3 days ago as well. 2 of them are already coming up Gonna start a new journal for my Hashberry's though I think

Nice, hashberry! Thats the next strain on my list to grow. I will follow that journal.

Satori #1 - Confirmed male and killed today I have it's rooted clone still to kill as well.

Satori #2 - Suspect male, to be killed shortly in the next day or so.....and all clones.

Satori #3, #4 and #5 all confirmed FEMALES!!

My #3, #4 and #5 Satori (female) clones are all doing great and are showing roots through the cubes now as well I will pot them up into soil in a couple of days time.

My 4 Hasberry's I potted in the week were all out of the soil on day 3-4! New journal to be started shortly for these babies.

And a final bit of news which I'm very excited about.....I'm setting myself a challenge and have decided to grow a classic African, pure land race sativa for my next strain, Malawi Gold! Seeds turned up yesterday, I just need to wait a few weeks before I can start them off.

And then there were 4.....Day 59 from seed....1 week flowering!




I'm still not certain on the sex of Satori #2. I think it's a boy though, but obviously I want to be sure. I'll be happy with 3 out of 5 females anyway!

That will also leave me with 9 healthy female clones that I can select a mother from and then just flower the rest.

Snowhite. I continue to enjoy this grow! What is the smell like for these girls? When did they start to really smell? Also, you probably mentioned it earlier in the journal, but I have read many since following yours, but what type of soil did you use for the grow and could you give a rundown of your pot size progression to date? Thanks m8!

SylvanElf said:

Snowhite. I continue to enjoy this grow! What is the smell like for these girls? When did they start to really smell? Also, you probably mentioned it earlier in the journal, but I have read many since following yours, but what type of soil did you use for the grow and could you give a rundown of your pot size progression to date? Thanks m8!

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Glad you're enjoying it......me too!

It smells like lovely sweet, fresh marijuana.....it's very nice! They started smelling pretty early on from about week 3 ish....and the smell just keeps getting stronger

I'm just using a general multi purpose compost without any added ferts or 'moisture control'. It's a pretty standard peat based potting mix, 3 bags for a tenner from the local garden centre. I also mixed in a little perlite for improved drainage and aeration. For the pot sizes; I started off in 3" pots, then potted up to 6" pots and finally, 9" pots (11litres/3gal) for flowering.

Wow, that sounds wonderful and I wish I could enjoy the smell (and bud) with you. Keep it up, a I said, can't wait to see how this progresses.

Satori #2 has just been confirmed male (as suspected) and killed!

Check out the balls on this....just before I cut him down!



And then there were 3.....

So that leaves me with Satori #3, #4 and #5 confirmed females. I'm very happy with that and I also 3 rooted clones of each.

Here they are on Day 10 of flowering.....

So what strains have you grown so far then, the snow white fem, and then these mandala strains. Have you grown anything other than mandala or nirvana, how do you rate the genetics of the mandala.

nongreenthumb said:

So what strains have you grown so far then, the snow white fem, and then these mandala strains. Have you grown anything other than mandala or nirvana, how do you rate the genetics of the mandala.

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Hey man, thanks for stopping by....

This is only my 2nd grow mate, so I've only ever grown the Nirvana fem snow whites before. Which I have to say I was very impressed with. All 10 seeds germinated, were very stable/consistent (except for 1 that was a bit weird) and all 10 were girls! Lovely smoke too (he says puffing away on my snow white herbal breakfast! mmmmmm) So well done Nirvana Bit pricey for the fem seeds though.

I'm very happy with the Mandala genetcis so far, but obviously I don't have much to compare them with. They cloned very easily though and they really do seem to thrive off big pots, nice soil and low nutes. Which is exactly what the breeders claim. I've only fed my plants a couple of times to date.

I've just started my Mandala Hashberry's off as well and they are a week old now. So far so good. I have started a new journal for these babies.

For my next grow I've got some Malawi Gold, a classic pure Sativa. So I'm setting myself a bit of a challenge with this one by trying to grow it indoors. These are gonna get TALL and flower for ages, but hopefully it will all be worth it for the bud!

Have you had any experience with this strain or other pure Sativa's? Growing indoors?

btw.....your girl count is looking good man! Nice work!!

I've potted all my female clones up into soil now.....except one that did not have much root growth compared to the others, where the cubes were totally bursting with roots. The slow one is still in the my propagator. Male clones are now in the bin!

Here's some pics of my clones in soil......it's 2 weeks since I took the cuttings. My Hasberry seedlings are in the middle.

It's Day 13 of flower today and I just went out to check on my girls. Flowering is really kicking in now and little bud sites are starting to form all over the place It gets exciting from now folks!

You can see for yourselves on Monday when I update with pictures to mark the start of the 3rd week of flowering.

What kind of temps you running?

SmokerE said:

What kind of temps you running?

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Hey man....about 28-30C max day in the green house at the moment, outside temps 18-20C. 16C at night (with a small heater running low) in the green house, outside temps 9-12C.

It's much better now the weather's getting cooler....and when winter sets in, my speed adjustable intake fan will come in very handy so I can reduce the amount of COLD air coming in. Right now I'm still running the intake at full speed.

Today is the start of the third week flowering and I'm very excited about the little buds which are starting to form I had forgot how exciting this part of the grow is!!

Anyway......I'll let the pics do the talking.....any questions or comments welcome! Thanks

My 3 girls together....




And some individual shots of my very young buds....