Mandala Seeds - Satori Grow

Beautiful,keep up the good work and good luck!

daddychrisg said:

I wish we could fast forward this thread and hear about how the smoke is! Looks great so far SW, keep up the love!

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Thanks man,,,,I wish I could fast forward the grow as well! I would love to taste this stuff and have my hashberry's ready too. However...patience is a virtue and good things will come to those who wait!! .....and take care of their plants!

trapper said:

ive read quite a bit about mandela seeds,they seem to have put in the time and effort going to india to get good breeding and then stableizing the strains,i wish i could grow some,baby grow is growing them too,im waiting to see how they end up.

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Yeah, it was babygrow who put me onto the mandala seeds actually. After reading up on the mandala strains, I really liked the sound of the breeders and their seeds, and of course the very cheap prices!

madcow said:

Beautiful,keep up the good work and good luck!

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Thanks man!

Hey all,

I can't be bothered to resize my photos anymore to upload them as "attachments", so this time I've uploaded some pics to one of these photo sharing sites and it seems to work quite well! You can click on the thumbnails below and then you will get the full size, un-edited image! COOOOLLLL!!! Just wait for the bud shots!!! .....a little way to go before then though I'm afraid!

I think the plant in the front right of these pics is starting to show some mild signs of Mg deficiency, not seen in any of the others yet. This one is also the 'runt'! I'm just keeping an eye on it for now, but will foilar feed with some Epsom Salts if it gets any worse.

Apart from that they're all doing very well and I'm pleased with their growth. Time really flies, I can't believe it's nearly been a month already.....this is Day 27 from seed!!

SnowWhite said:

Apart from that they're all doing very well and I'm pleased with their growth. Time really flies, I can't believe it's nearly been a month already.....this is Day 27 from seed!!

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Looking very good Sw, don't think it's Mg looks like water splashes to me but I can't see it very clearly.

Just look at those stem thicknesses

I have a strain that produces a fuckin trunk, and I was wondering if it is wasted energy to have so much mass developed in the stem..Just a thought.. Sorry to bump your thread SW, but I think there is over qualified growers watching this thread! BTW SW, @ this point, between what BG and you have produced with the Satori, I am going to have to get some on order today! Happy growing..

babygro said:

Looking very good Sw, don't think it's Mg looks like water splashes to me but I can't see it very clearly.

Just look at those stem thicknesses

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Thanks mate......thick stems, for FAT buds! HEHEHEHE I've spent some time today dribbling over the Mandala Satori gallery pics! I can't wait till mine are like that!!

What looks like water splashes in the lowest fan leaves, is in fact just leaf damage from when they got very dehydrated and nearly died in week 2. The first set of fan leaves on the other bigger plants were totally dead and shrivelled and I removed them. But as this plant was smaller anyway (the runt), it needed less water so it lasted a bit longer with less damage to the leaves, bascially what you can see now. A bit of water and they all recovered well actually. You can't really see the Mg def in these pics, it is very mild. If it gets any worse I'll take some better pics so you can see for yourself.

You better keep those babies alive and healthy SW! I am fixed on this thread, and can't wait to see them next week! GL

daddychrisg said:

You better keep those babies alive and healthy SW! I am fixed on this thread, and can't wait to see them next week! GL

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Thanks for following my grow mate, I really enjoy keeping a journal and sharing the progress with you folks on here! I don't talk about it to anyone else, for obvious reasons and my mrs gets really bored if I even mention my plants, so I don't even go there anymore!

This site is the only place I get to chat about my grow, with people who are actually interested, and can't report me to the cops or hassle me for weed all the time!! I love it!

Here's a "macro" shot of my suspected Mg deficiency in one of my Satoris. The pics a little blurry, but you can still see it. Click on thumbnail to enlarge.



They will all need a drink later today, so I'm just going to give them all some natural spring water as it contains some nice trace minerals, including Mg. Hopefully this will help.

SnowWhite said:

Here's a "macro" shot of my suspected Mg deficiency in one of my Satoris. The pics a little blurry, but you can still see it. Click on thumbnail to enlarge.

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Mg starts at the leaf tips, and that still looks like water spots to me or a hangover of your old under-watering problem.

I don't think it's anything to worry about at the moment.

One other thing you may to consider - is the final height of the plants. I think I flowered mine a little too late and they've got too tall for my area really. I switched to 12/12 in the second day of week 8, which was about a week too late in my mind.

Just be conscious of the height you have and the height of the plants prior to flowering.

babygro said:

Mg starts at the leaf tips, and that still looks like water spots to me or a hangover of your old under-watering problem.

I don't think it's anything to worry about at the moment.

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I'm not really worried, whatever it may be, I'm just keeping a close eye on it. Still no signs of it in any of the other plants. Maybe I did just splash some water, but I'm pretty careful not to. I'll let you know if it gets any worse anyway.

babygro said:

One other thing you may to consider - is the final height of the plants. I think I flowered mine a little too late and they've got too tall for my area really. I switched to 12/12 in the second day of week 8, which was about a week too late in my mind.

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Yeah, I've been thinking about height actually, having been watching your grow. I was thinking another 2 weeks, then take cuttings and repot to final pots, veg for one more week, then flower. So that would put me in week 7 anyway, like you suggest. I've got quite a bit of head room in my flowering space, so hopefully I'll be ok. I just need to get my shit sorted for taking cuttings/clones....and I will also start off my hashberry's at week 6/7. Can't wait!

SnowWhite said:

Yeah, I've been thinking about height actually, having been watching your grow. I was thinking another 2 weeks, then take cuttings and repot to final pots, veg for one more week, then flower. So that would put me in week 7 anyway, like you suggest.

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Yeah, just keep an eye on it for it getting worse.

That's the main reason mine vegged for longer that I ideally wanted - I was waiting to take cuttings and there wasn't enough strong cuttings to take.

The big advantage of vegging them that long was that they all showed sex in veg before switching to 12/12 - handy for getting rid of the males and giving the females more room.

What you're planning on doing sounds ideal.

My moms are coming on great, I'll try and get a pic for later - and I need to take clones now ready for when the main plants finish, so I can swop them straight over. I'm going to SOG these - should be interesting.

babygro said:

My moms are coming on great, I'll try and get a pic for later - and I need to take clones now ready for when the main plants finish, so I can swop them straight over. I'm going to SOG these - should be interesting.

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Interesting indeed, looking at your colas so far, SOG should work very well!!. Yeah man, get some pics of your moms up on your journal...I'd like to see them!

I filmed my Satoris with my mobile phone for a laugh!.......and here it is.....my first ever VIDEO update!! LOL!!!

Day 32.....in the grow cupboard!

SW,That was sweet! I will look into setting up a video up load myself after seeing that! OH' yeah the plants look very happy!

SnowWhite said:

Interesting indeed, looking at your colas so far, SOG should work very well!!. Yeah man, get some pics of your moms up on your journal...I'd like to see them!

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Pics are up there

Took clones last night - 8 of them. Decided to do a rooting test, 3 in Riot clubes, 2 in Westlands MP + JI + handful of perlite, and 3 in a new seedling compost I picked up recently - Genie No1 + handful of perlite. Will be interesting to compare the results to my benchmark Riot cubes.

The colas on two of the plants are now so heavy they won't stand up on their own!

I also took a sample of one of the Satori's at the weekend. Man that is some fucking good weed, smoked as smooth as a babys bottom in baby oil - unbeleivable! And that was a microwave dried bit of bud - fuck knows what it's going to be like properly dried and cured!

Only two weeks to go now, can't happen soon enough, that's if there's any left to harvest

You're in for a real treat here Sw!

babygro said:

You're in for a real treat here Sw!

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I just can't wait!

My satori seeds should be here early next week, and I will start a SoG right away! I also picked up the Sadhu, but I am going to have to wait 4 weeks to pop them!

daddychrisg said:

My satori seeds should be here early next week, and I will start a SoG right away! I also picked up the Sadhu, but I am going to have to wait 4 weeks to pop them!

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Nice man. It'll be good to see the Sadhu as well. Someone just needs to grow some Speed Queen and a bit of Mandala #1 and we'd have most of the Mandala strains covered on here I think You keeping a journal?

Before you start a SoG, you will really need to find a good mother. Is that your plan? SoG really needs to be started from clones so ALL your plants grow the same and feed the same. Otherwise your life could get tricky. Have a word with babgro...he's gonna do a SoG and has already selected his mom's! Good luck with it all though. I think you will be very happy with your Mandala seeds!

My Satori's are coming along nicely and I'm very pleased with the progress.

Today I gave them all a misting with a very light BioBozz Alg-a-mic foilar feed. It's just an organic vitiality booster with loads of trace nutrients, I think it's from seaweed extract. They seem to be liking it though. I can't tell you the EC of the feed, as my cheap EC meter has packed up!!! But it was a very light dose, around 0.3ml per litre.

I'll probably give them their first feed of Bio Grow to the soil soon. I nearly fed them today, but I thought I'd do the light foilar feed first.

The side shoots are really starting to develop nicely now as well, which is great as I want to take some cuttings next week. I could take cuttings from a couple of the plants already, but I'm going to wait till next week when they are all ready.

Here's some pics anyway. The plant in the middle is my 'runt' and is still a lot shorter then the others, I've had to rasie her up a bit, but she's getting bushy as hell!! The foilage is so thick.