Sweet Run#1 - Red Mandarine

--------------- Day 36 [06.10] --------------- New week, new soil , new pot ! A 10L pot for my Red Mandarine VF and a soil mix of my own with some garden store soil ( for flowers ) some TKS2 soil ( super charged / with a lot of peat inside) , some perlite ( I have a 40L bag ) and some coconut that have crush with my hand ( 1 year old coconut ). With that new soil I did not feed but I am about to do it today , yesterday ( trandplant day ) I only gave her some water ( about 1L . Why do I feed straight after transplant and not with the 2nd watering ? Because I consider the plant strong enough to handle a nutrients shot and by experience I know that most of the sweet seeds strain can handle a full dosage. I have seen some white flies around my grow area so au took 1 kilo of aleo vera, crushed the "leaves" , and put 5L of water to make a foliar stinking spray ( 5 day in the water is enough , 7 is ok but 2 weeks will make you a nice potion to kill you plants ). LST is the next last step , I will bend the girl with a 90° angle to encourage the secondaries growth and build a bushy shape , I must have said it before but she makes me feel like she is a vertical stretcher so she'll need some help to be like I want to see her. --------------- Day 42 [12.10] --------------- Picture update ! She is reacting well to the bending aka LST but she needs a little defoliation or I should maybe say that she needs to get rid of the lower weaker stems to have a quicker upper stems development. The smell is "Yabadabadou" ❤️💛💚 , just touch the main stem and the smell is diffusing around your nose and is staying on the fingers 😍. That Mandarine smells like berries for now. By the shape she's building I can say that I'm not ready to flowering yet , I would like to push the last week(s) of veg in a 15L pot to be able to transplant in a 26L final pot because I am sure she can be a nice yielder if she have the space that she deserves..... and I have already grown the Cream Mandarine F1 fast version which was a queen in term of vigor. Let's talk about the LST , you can see the 1st day (D 36) and how it changed after 6 days only (D 42) , she's the good choice for the shape builders. Feel free to ask , comment , like it or hate it !