Exotic's Mango Cream

So it's that time again. But unfortunately this will be my last grow for a little while due to personal priorities that I need to focus on. Non the less I'm stoked to be growing exotics fine genetics, Somango crossed with Blue Diesel. I LOVE diesel strains. Even though it has a lower % of THC that I'm used to, I'm sure it will still be quite effective. As always, in water for for 12 hrs and then into a paper towel till she cracks a root. I'm going to be in 100% coco coir, and I will be using Aurora Innovation Soul Line. So far the other 2 plants I have going on are doing awsome with AI soul line. Within 12 hrs, she dropped, and into the paper towel for a nother 16. She cracked a her little tap root is on the move so into the root riot cube she went.

She is chugging right along. Put her into her 1 gallon pot with Mother Earth 70%coco 30%perlite. Running Aurora Innovations soul line of nutes, they have been on point with my other grows, so not trying to mess with a good thing. She got a little streachy out the gate, but that's all I have to report so far.

She is Veging out. Nothing really interesting to report.keeping her veg nutes around 350ppm and ph @ 6.1 I'll be taking off her true leaves here shortly. I've noticed that it helps with speed of growth in early veg.

She is coming along, topped her a couple days ago @ her 4th internode. She is a little droopy and I'm trying to figure out what's up with that. It happened after I topped her, maybe it's a stress response. No issues or deficancys as of yet.

Training time for this girl. Took a couple of her fan leaves and started her bending prossess. She is a little lanky. Getting positive growth so not super worried. No issues or deficancys.

She is becoming a pretty plant in her own right. Kinda lanky but that's absolutely fine. I will be holding her up with bamboo in flower. I'm bushing her out to 4 main tops and 4 branches. I'll let her go a nother 2 weeks before i start flower, just so she gets a little. No issues or deficancys. Update, I transplanted her to her 7 gallon final pot and mixed in Extreme Gardening mykos & azos, then hit the hole with great white myccroriza to nullify the transplant shock. I gave her a little nute mixture along with some worm casting to set off the azos bacteria. She is in Mother Earth 70/30 coco/perlite mix. I did a defoliation to help speed up her recovery time as well. She started drying out her pot every other day so I gave her a little extra room to spread her roots.

She is coming along. She is loving her 7 gallon pot. A tone of space for her streach her feet. I staked her for the times to come to make it easier for me to tie her up. No issues or deficancys.

She is now in the flower tent. She is a streach thing as well. The first 3 days in the flower tent she grew about 5 inches. She has large internodal spacing. I did a good defoliation prior to putting her in the flower tent. No issues or deficancys.

For being 75% Indica, she streached like a sativa. Could be her Diesel genetics. Huge internodal spacing. She is a heavy feeder. I cut the Grow nute out at a attempt to keep her from streaching any further. She is 3/4 up the tent with the light maxed out to the top. I might bend her branches a little once I harvest the MSNL: Carmelicious

Her vertical climb has tapered off. She is going to be a tall one. Huge nodal spacing, I'm not really a fan of that. I am only watering this week and then next week I'm going to start her bloom regimen. No issues or deficancys. 11/5 I did the last of the pruning this AM. I also gave her a nice bloom nute feed ar 750ppm. To be honest, I dont understand why people go into the 1000's of ppm. I find less is more, and I don't have to worry about nute burn along with high soil acidity blocking nutes. I moved the fan lower pointed up to move some air around a little better at the bottom..

She nothing new really to report. I put some zip ties on her to help keep her up. She is getting frosty as well. I'm going to keep her nutes at around 700ppm, and the feed, feed, water cycle that I have been using. No issues or deficancys.

The one good thing about Massachusetts, is while growing during the winter you can get the temp low enough to get the plants to change color with out an AC. I'm trying to draw out those blue and purple colors. 67°F seems to be the sweet spot for those colors. So I'm on to week 5 and she is getting chunky. There is enough light penetration that it's getting to the lower parts, giving me some decent buds at the bottom part of the plant. She has already started her color fade with the leaves turning yellow. There is no other deficancys so I happy with that..

She is starting to chunk up nicely here in week 6. Wonderful sweet fruity Diesel smell coming off her. You can tell she is starting to finish up with that smell. Haven't touched her much. Her lower buds are shaping up well too. Hope they got some density to em. Her stigmas are starting to turn a pretty amber, trying to get the purple and blue colorations with the colder lights out temp. She has shown to be drought resistant. Going with 4-5 days without water or feeding. Likes the dry environment, and handles 80°F just fine. Mediterranean climate conditioning She is top heavy, I had to add a couple more baboo poles to hold her up. She wants to fall over.

She is looking right. She is becoming top heavy, and falling all over her self. I had to add some zip ties to keep her held up these last 2 weeks. Smell is on point with a sweet tropical fruit followed by a fruity diesal smell. She has that indica style fat buds on the sativa style long branches( streach indica) I started her flush/only water run for the next 2 weeks. I did add some URB organics to the water to get her to pull the rest of the nutes from the soil, and I added a touch of PK to help her keep that bloom going strong. PPM were 170, so should have no I'll effect in the end product.

I harvested her today, the trichomes were to my liking. She is STINKY, she is definatly taking after her diesel heritage, granted, she does have a super fruity tropical smell. She developed some purple tinges to the calix with the lights out temp in the 60's. Super starchy, and lanky. She needed support 3 weeks into flower. The buds are fat and solid. There was some foxtailing at the end, but its expected. She is super frosty and I'm happy with the outcome thus far. I'm trying out whole plant hang drying instead of individual branch hanging. Definatly saving me some time.

She stayed short during veg, and then quadrupled (400%) in size by week 3 of flower. Make sure you have the space. She ended at 36 inches. She whent within 3 inches of the light. Starting at week 5 she used a tone of K. The Aroma off her is exquisite. Tropical fruit with some diesel mixed in. The berry lends that sweetness to the overall aroma but she kept to the tropical smell. A good carbon filter is needed. She handled drought conditions well. Mediterranean climate for optimal growth out doors. The high starts off clear and alert but not overwhelming. Your face gets a numbness in the nose and front teeth area. It's clear and delightful for about an hour and the Indica part of her genetics take over with a body buzz that soothes out any body ake. She allowed me to fall asleep but didn't induce it. Very enjoyable strain and recommend if you dont want a balanced diesel strain. She came down on day 55 with 36 grams of finished nugs. 11 grams of trim. She needed supports starting in week 2-3 of flower. Very lanky and top heavy. The pheno I got was a diesel. The nugs are a good density and size. Large internodal spacing. Some of the buds at the bottom of the plant were small and fluffy but that's expected. A good defoliation is required during the 2-3 week of flower as well if not done the week before initiation of flower cycle. I will definatly be growing this strain again to play with her genetics.