Giving Mango Sherbet Bag Seed a Whirl

10/13 I’ve been out of town for several days, and using an outlet timer I left Mango Sherbet on a 20 hours of light/ 4 hours of darkness cycle, with misting twice a day from my house-sitter using plain filtered water I’d PH balanced. I have two small fans running (though one was plugged in to the timer as well, and was off when the lights went dark), one pointed above the plants and one pointed below for good circulation. Mango Sherbet also gets rotated in half turns 2-3 times a day to get a nice, even coverage of light all around. I left the dehumidifier on the entire time, which was definitely a good thing with how humid and rainy my city got during this past week. Even left on, the humidity level in the room stayed at about 66%-67% - which is right where I want it right now, so it works out. Growth on leaves and stem pretty much halted while Mango Sherbet adjusted to its 3rd re-potting and redirected the bulk of her energy toward growing roots from the buried section of the stem. Not a huge difference in growth compared to last week overall, but from the pics sent from my house-sitter it looks like Mango Sherbet’s leaf growth finally started up again about two days ago. The stem looks a bit thicker now and the leaves have definitely grown. My badass Mango Sherbet is dusting herself off and kicking back into big-girl growth with a new set of healthy, happy little leaves. I just love the particular gorgeous shade of green that shows up on new growth, and I’m really pleased to announce that although not really grown in yet, the new leaves are looking exactly as I’d hoped so far. After the repotting I would say that it took maybe a full week or so for growth to start up again above-ground. It’s about what I expected realistically after some research, though I‘ll admit I was low-key hoping she’d bounce back right away and start taking off with the vigor my other sprout (Light Saber – different journal) has showed. To be fair though, my other sprout did benefit quite a bit from the learning I went through to figure out how to fix mistakes with Mango Sherbet, so it started out with comparatively ideal circumstances while poor Mango Sherbet had to work with me a bit until I figured out what to do. Still, it’s only the third week in a five to six month journey, so I can’t let myself get too excited and impatient lol. Despite being three weeks old, Mango Sherbet is probably closer to a week 1 or 2 sprout in terms of development. Final note for this week before posting – finally got my grow tent (5ft tall, 2ft deep, and 4ft wide) this morning. Setting it up today, so week 4 posting will occur after a full seven day run with the tent.