Pure Mandarine Bomb 🍊

Gingobeaz Hello and welcome to my next grow! This time, I'm growing a Pure Mandarine Bomb from MGFarms420. I got the cutting from HNNY (Instagram) and NoProbation4weed (Growdiaries). The strain is a cross between Mandarin Sunset from Ethos Collective and Pure Michigan F2 from 3rd Coast Genetics. After the cutting had been in transit for just under 4 days, it was planted in a 2L pot with 70% coconut and 30% perlite. This is my first attempt with coconut, so let's see how it goes.

Gingobeaz After 10 days of recovery, the pot was well rooted and the plant was transferred to a 30L fabric pot. This time, I used straw for rodents from the drugstore as mulch material. The soil is recycled soil from the last run, prepared as follows: Soil: 60% Worm humus: 20% Coconut: 10% Perlite: 10% 30g Greenhouse feeding bio grow 20g oat flakes

Gingobeaz It has reached its final pot and is doing very well. It looks super healthy. I have only had good experiences with S&R fertilizer so far.

Gingobeaz The plants have been moved to the new 100x58 tent, where each one now has its own lamp, so it's a bit more relaxed in the box. They were topped this week and some LST is coming up soon. I didn't want to do SCROG this time.

Gingobeaz After 4.5 weeks, we are entering the flowering phase. The plant is growing vigorously and has continued to be trained. Now, before flowering, it has been defoliated and lollipopped. I could have continued the vegetation phase for another week, but I want to bring forward the outdoor season to mid-May.

Gingobeaz The plant is doing very well. Every now and then, some leaves were removed and LST was applied to create a reasonably flat surface. After one week of flowering, very little stretching is visible.

Gingobeaz I had to deal with powdery mildew despite low relative humidity. I installed two extra fans and pruned and defoliated earlier than usual (day 16 of flowering). The plant didn’t seem to mind, though, and looked great again the very next day. I also sprayed it with a mixture of whole milk and water—that’s supposed to help against powdery mildew. I’ll give it another treatment next week, and hopefully that’ll get rid of it so the buds can grow.

Gingobeaz Flowering is going well so far. The buds are slowly taking shape, and you can already detect fruity, sweet terpenes. Unfortunately, the powdery mildew is back. Since I can no longer spray the plant, I’m dabbing the affected areas with hydrogen peroxide. I hope I can contain the infestation. Vivosun has received an update that allows you to display two sensors (indoor and microclimate). The indoor sensor is located directly above the plant canopy, and the microclimate sensor is placed on the rim of the pot. It’s really interesting how different these values are. This calls into question the whole discussion about VPD, etc. SANlight is now also achieving very high VPD values in their lab because they take the average of these measurements.

Gingobeaz Unfortunately, powdery mildew got the better of them. I’ve learned a few things, so hopefully I won’t have that problem again. The terpenes were already super tasty, though. I’ll definitely grow them again if I can get my hands on some!