Giving Mango Sherbet Bag Seed a Whirl

10/21 Mango Sherbet is still growing slowly but steadily. I’m definitely glad she’s a photoperiod though lol, otherwise this would be around the point she’d go into flower – not exactly ideal at this size lol. Her stem is getting adorably chunky considering she’s still a short little thing. 10/22 Growing some new leaves on pre-existing branches and continuing to pop out more big and gorgeous growth up top. She’s thriving and doing it in style, though is for sure still a little thing at five weeks. To be honest I’m not too mad about that though, when I did research on this strain I found she tends to get pretty tall, especially during flower. Having her just a little shorter than others of her kind may actually make her easier to manage later considering I’m still a newbie and not as experienced in dealing with managing the flower stage and the insane stretch that can come with it. 10/23 I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to start topping and low stress training Mango Sherbet, but she’s so dang short I haven’t been able to start. And despite how healthy she looks, she’s still so little that I don’t think I’ll be able to do it this week either lol. She’s got three nodes and working on the fourth right now, but I’ll wait till the fifth starts coming in before starting on training. Honestly, if this rate of growth continues maybe I’ll fim to keep the stress down so she doesn’t get even slower. Mango Sherbet sure likes to take her time lol. 10/26 I went ahead and fimmed Mango Sherbet this morning and gave her a watering. I’ll add in the LST in another day or two after giving her some time to deal with the FIM. Otherwise she’s looking good, doing good. I’ll want to repot her soon, but I’ll wait a week, repot her, then wait another week before trying topping of fimming again. 10/27 Did the low stress training last night since I was doing a bunch of maintenance stuff anyway. It’s pretty dope to see how quickly the light penetration affects the newly exposed growth – most of them have almost doubled in size since last night. It was quick and easy at her height and I just used one tie for the main stem, but may add more to hold some of the leaves I can’t tuck using some gardening wire. I like it a lot better than the twist-ties I tried with another plant since it doesn’t start to dig into the plant as it grows.