Giving Mango Sherbet Bag Seed a Whirl

10/05 I’m so friggin dumb sometimes. The sprout was still getting long, and I found a journal of someone who had been able to bend the stem into a knot. Of course I tried it myself, which ended up being a terrible mistake. It almost worked…and then it suddenly didn’t. I worked the stem until it was stretched into the right general shape – but the sprout was just a hair too short for knotting the stem and instead it cracked about a half to 2/3 through, on a low area by the dirt that I hadn’t really worked on enough. Between the weight and movement as I worked on the last stretch, I pushed it too far too fast. I panicked at first with trying to figure out what to do – my grow area is pretty clean, but still – after an injury like that, time was of the essence so the sprout didn’t get any bacteria in the crack and it didn’t start leaking too much plant blood, sending it into shock. In my panic my first thought was to use stakes to keep the plant upright and in place, pressing the stem wound on itself to try and stitch back together, but that leaves the problem of exposure to the air and inviting bacteria. And to be honest, I just didn’t think it would actually work. In the end, I figured my only real chance was to bury the sprout. Again. Which of course means re-potting for the third time in the week since it germinated, which let me just say this – if Mango Sherbet somehow survives this too, what a friggin trooper; for real. I buried the sprout up to just below the leaf growth with Ocean fox farm soil; putting it in a larger pot to turn the entire growth of stem up to this point into a root system and just try restarting again if Mango Sherbet can pull through. I’ll leave it under the T5 light, about an inch away from the leaves to try and curb further length until the leaves grow in more. Fingers Crossed. 10/06 Last night my new LED light grow light arrived, and I immediately set it up and put Mango Sherbert, a GSC clone, and a new seedling I’ll start a different journal for called Light Saber that just germinated two days ago. I left them under the T5 while I set up shop, and then when everything was ready I moved the plants to their new grow area (closet grow until I can set up my grow tent next week) and moved the outlet timer to the LED so the 17/7 light cycle I’ve got going on for the group is as unchanged as possible. I left it alone overnight, and checked in on the plants this morning before work. Mango Sherbert’s stem growth is maybe a centimeter taller if I’m not being crazy, but the leaves actually did seem to grow a tiny bit bigger overnight. Hopefully it’s not just my imagination and the sprout has not only survived my replanting and the injuries I caused, but now that it’s getting the light it needs it may be able to actually thrive now too. I checked on the plant after work today…and holy marijuana Batman, we’ve got continuing leaf growth!!! I’m straight up shook. No signs so far of it looking or acting sickly from my shenanigans yesterday, the leaves are actually growing instead of the growth pausing from shock (though it’ll prob be a bit slower for a few days), and that new leaf green color is so friggin gorgeous and unblemished it would make an angel cry. I’m unbelievably pleased.