mandarine punch

Just getting started with mandarin e punch👊🍊 , hope to have good results this year🙏. waiting for Biobizz additives🐟🌱 to arrive next week so i can start giving her a little push🚀 . the weather is opening up a little , i am planning to spend the first few week indoor so that i can control better and allow it to become stronger then when the weather is a little warmer i will move her outside for the rest of her cicles, i know it is not the best way to start and it can create a stress but i got a little too excited and i might have start too early for outdoor growing in northern Europe.😬

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Transferred my baby in a 19L fabric pot with Atami light mix soil. i added some terracottum to the medium and argyle balls on the top to make sure it stays moist

A little too small than I anticipated but that I am afraid is because I cannot give her enough hours of light. I am afraid next week she will enter flowering stage and the dimensions of the plant isn't great at all. I'm trying some LST and very minimal defoliation as I don't want to stress her too much an slow down the growth even further. After all I am not sure what will come out of this one. 😕

as expected the plant entered in her flowering stage as she start to show the firsts pistils so i've changed the feeding schedule accordingly sticking pretty much to what Biobizz says. i am happy to see the plant stretched a little more reaching 23cm which is not a lot but much better than one week ago , keeping in mind that i am doing some LTS and i buried at least 3/4 cm of the plant when i transplanted it ,it would be more around 30cm realistically which is more or less the normal size at this stage for this genetic. my cat decided that was a good idea to start chewing on the leaves so unfortunately i have some damage to deal with but it doesn't seems to effect the plant , i have to be more careful because it seems that now after he had a taste of it he constantly try to find a window of opportunity to snatch one more peace, i will include the little fucker picture .

i started to intensify the feeding schedule as for Biobizz and i notice a nice stretch of the plant, in the last 15days she grew almost 20 cm which is good news. i struggle to have decent light outdoor but she is doing her best . the bud growth is not impressive to not say quite slow nonetheless i hope there will be a fast build up toward the last weeks , there is still plenty of time. My cat is still chewing on my plant from time to time, i think he understood that i care about it and every time is upset with me he takes a chunk off it.

End of week 7 going into week 8. Lots of pistils popping out but still don't have that bud fattening I was hoping for, not enough light and temperature a little lower than normal are slowing it down I suppose. The plan is very compact and sturdy and start to smell everyday more. Buds appears to concentrate on the main cola, all the side branches are not giving much. I defoliate it a little bit to help sunlight to reach inside buds, I think i removed less than 10% of its leaves, some of which were half eaten already by my cat. Feeding schedule is getting heavy but the plant doesn't seem to feel any stress about it. Thanks for passing by and happy growing 🌱🌲🌳

End of 8th week. Buds not fattening, I guess I reached the maximum she can do for outdoor here where I live. The plant looks very healthy and happy so I suppose it's all about light and temperature which I cannot do much about it... It is what it is and could be worst. I did a little bit more bending and defoliating which is not recommended as well but fuck it i wanted to experiment a little, maybe I stressed the plant and slowed down her growth. In a month I will start a new one and I will definitely let her be this time. Happy growing and thanks for passing by. If you have any suggestions don't hesitate to drop a comment!

Last week before the flush I believe, pistils are turning brown, about 30% of them at the moment. If I'm getting 10 grams out of it I'll be lucky, not a lot but is better than nothing.

As the plant shows signs of being almost at the end of her cycle of life I've so started flushing her with pure water. I believe 10 days max 2 weeks she'll be ready to harvest. I happy the bud sites fattened up a little more filling up empty spaces. Can't wait to try it. She looks beautiful 😍😋

Super late with the update! I should have posted this 4 days ago as today I already harvested it. Anyway looking forward to taste the results of hard work.

The plant came out exactly how described by the seed bank and it took 3 days longer to harvest. Honestly I thought it was going to be much smaller than what it really is but still not a monster and I believe it's due to the week sun and low temperatures but after all I believe we really did not bad at least. The plan is was very healthy throughout the whole cycle and never gave me problems even if it was sleeping outside, she is really compact in size and dense so I believe for an experienced indoor grower she can give great results with the right care.