Mandala Seeds - Satori Grow

[SnowWhite]

and here are my Satori clones 19 days since they were cut. They are now really starting to grow!



2 of my clones are looking a bit sorry, both of them from Satori#5 which was my 'runt', although you wouldn't know it was ever runt to look at it now. The third Satori#5 clone is not great either, but it's doing better than the other 2. So clearly Satori #5 doesn't clone so good, so I know for sure that I won't be using #5 as my mother.

 

[SnowWhite]

 

[gigi999]

Hey,
nice grow I am thinking of going satori after my huge and messy oaxacan sativa.
it's day 17 today, have they stopped stretching and hwo tall are they now?

cheers
G

 

[SnowWhite]

hey gigi, thanks man...I am really enjoying growing my Satori's, so I would certainly recommend the strain. Can't comment on the smoke yet obviously, but I hear it's some lovely shit!

The stretch really slowed after 10-14 days of 12/12. You can see what they were like Day 1 flower in the attached pic below, compared to the above pics from today.

They are currently about 70-75cm tall.

 

[gigi999]

great, that sounds about right for my tiny grow space.
keep it up it's looking very good

 

[SnowWhite]

I'm going away in a couple of weeks and I'm going to be away a lot with work in October as well, so I've decided to set myself a small pump based irrigation system to keep my plants fed/watered while I'm not at home.

I've purchased the following:

Nova Pump 800
Air Pump Rena 100
Airline and airstone
Low pressure drippers x 6 on 4mm pipe
25L Bucket (res)
And then some 13mm pipe with fixings and fittings for the drippers etc

I'm going to setup a ring main with the 13mm pipe and then I'll have the 6 drippers running off this line.....2 per pot. The drippers are 2l an hour.

Just doing some tests in the bathroom before I take it all down to my grow room and plumb it all in.

Testing my equipment......

and measuring the drip rate for myself so I can work out my timer/watering schedule....

My plants like 4 litres of water every 2 days, so based on 2 x 2l p/h drippers, that means I'll need to run my pump for just an hour every 2 days. I'll set the airstone off 10 mins before the pump starts to get my res nice and aerated before being fed to the plants....

I'll post some more pics once I've got it all hooked up in my grow room.

This is not a permanent irrigation solution and it will just be used when I'm not at home. When I am home, I will continue to water and feed manually as normal.

 

[SnowWhite]

Fuck it!!....bloody thing leaks where I fit the 4mm drippers into the main irrigation line. That's why I tested it in the bath though!! I've tried a few times fixing the drippers, but it's no good, they just leak. Gonna have to re think how I attach my drippers to the main line now. I've just seen an 8 outlet manifold for 4mm irrigation lines...I think this will provide a more secure, tight fitting for the drippers. The last thing I want while I'm away is to not give my plants any water and just flood my grow room instead!

 

[SnowWhite]

I wasn't going to update my flowering pics until Monday at the start of week 3, but I just took this pic and had to post it.....my girls are really showing their potential now........check it.....

 

[gigi999]

hey have you got some more updates?

 

[smi32th]

wel ive kept up with your past two grows, no comments yet tho, but i started my won closet grow, just with a 250w MH and have a fan blowing on 5 different plants, one of myplants I started off under just a reg. light about a month ago, now its been under the 250w with the other 4 plants i started. My plant is about 8 in tall. how tall should it be if i want to produce about an oz a plant. I have a 2x4x7 foot tall grow space, so upward height is no prob.?

 

[SnowWhite]

Sorry it's been so long since any updates...

so it's now 35 days of 12/12. 5 weeks flowering.

I've got some problems with one of my girls. She's showing some sort of deficiency or maybe a leaf fungus, I can't work it out cos the other 2 are ok, so I'm keeping a close on eye on her for now and just removing the affected leaves. Might have to harvest this one early though if it is a fungus, as I don't want her fucking up my other 2 healty gilrs. There is little/no treatment I can do for fungus at this stage of growth. Any sort of sprays are totally out now, so I've just got my fingers crossed for her really.

Anyway, enough rambling from me for now....here are some pics for ya....enjoy!

 

[SylvanElf]

Looking yummy! How tall are they now and have you been feeding them anything?

 

[gigi999]

looking very very nice indeed

 

[SnowWhite]

Looking yummy! How tall are they now and have you been feeding them anything?

Thanks for the comments. They are around 85cm now. They got over the flower stretch after 3 weeks of 12/12. I'm feeding all the time now with every watering, they are pretty hungry at this stage. I watered them once with just clean water and no nutes last week and they looked really hungry for it, so I won't do that again.

looking very very nice indeed

Hey gigi...thanks man....I'm pretty pleased, but I'm battling with a leaf fungus at the moment. I had to remove quite a few leaves from one of my plants yesterday to stop it spreading. No further signs of it today, but I am fearful of how much this will affect my yield. Especially if it spreads any more. I've only got 3 weeks left so I'm hoping they can hang in there and I can keep the fungus under control.

Thanks for stopping by my grow!

 

[SylvanElf]

Snow, thanks for the reply. Hope the leaf fungus stays under control, as that would be a real downer if you lost any girls this late on.

How often and how much water are they taking? Also, you might have mentioed it befor but, what kind of nutes are you using and how much? I ask because the Mandala site suggests that the Satori requires very little feeding and wondered if you found this to be true.

 

[SnowWhite]

Snow, thanks for the reply. Hope the leaf fungus stays under control, as that would be a real downer if you lost any girls this late on.

How often and how much water are they taking? Also, you might have mentioed it befor but, what kind of nutes are you using and how much? I ask because the Mandala site suggests that the Satori requires very little feeding and wondered if you found this to be true.

Thanks, I'm hoping I can keep it under control too. I'm getting some Citrofresh to spray on the plants. I know I said I wouldn't be spraying anything and normally I would not spray anything on my plants at this stage, but apparently Citrofresh is ok and can actually be used to prevent or treat bud rot as well. I've been doing some reading up on it. So we'll see how it does.

this is the stuff.....Citrofresh - Products - Citrofresh .....if you're interested. It is organically certified and it is bascially extracted from Orange peel, so I kind of feel ok spraying it on my plants this late in flower.

For feeding, I think I fed them only once during veg growth. But in flower I've found them to be quite hungry. As I said before, I missed a feed and they looked sorry for it. I am using BioBizz nutes and am currently feeding at 2ml Bloom and 2ml Grow per litre with every watering. This has increased from 1ml of Grow and Bloom p/l at the 2nd week flowering.

I give each plant 3-4 litres of water every 3 or so days. Depends how warm it has been.

 

[SnowWhite]

The citrofresh turned up and I covered my flowering space and plants with the stuff this morning. I'm really hoping it's effective at killing off my leaf fungus and stopping it spreading. I'll keep you posted....

In the mean time, a quick update on my Satori clones/mothers....4 clones have been moved into my flowering space, around the edges of the room. This is mostly to free up space in my veg cupboard, but also to give me a head start on my next harvest!

Meanwhile, in the veg cupboard I have 2 Satori clones which I have selected as mother plants (1st pic).....and then 2 other remaining clones, which I will just flower when I have more room in my flowering space (2nd pic).

The 3rd pic is of all my vegging plants. 4 Hashberry's from seeds in the middle and then my 4 Satori clones/mothers. It's getting a little cramped in there!

 

[SylvanElf]

The clones look great! How about some pics of the seeded Satoris in flower?

 

[SnowWhite]

The clones look great! How about some pics of the seeded Satoris in flower?

Thanks.....Here's a couple for ya from this morning! It's Day 38 flowering today.

 

[SylvanElf]

Thanks.....Here's a couple for ya from this morning! It's Day 38 flowering today.

A couple of questions: Are the lack of sideshoots in the pictures from the clones you cut earlier or did they just thin out as they did the flowering stretch? Also, are those sticks in the picture holding up the colas or are they there for some other reason?

Nice resin prodution evident on the leaves in the second picture. Thought about yield estimates yet?