har10

Im thinking of ordering satori. This strain is exacly what i have been looking for, especialy for the price. They have some of the best discriptions of their strains ive seen. I think they are featured in high times.
So would this be a 'safe' company to go with? ie. Service, shipping time, not linked in anyway to the possiablity of getting busted.

OldBasilisk

I've tried two of their strains, and was very happy with the outcome. The quality isn't evident until they hit the flower chamber.
In both cases, the plants grew very slowly until flowering.

These plants bulked up faster and crystallized earlier and more densely than any of the other strains I had in the chamber, and I'll definitely choose them again. A pleasure to grow.

redman71

Yeah I am going to have to go ahead and disagree with your first part...The quality is evident from the day they sprout! My Mandalas (Hashberry, and Mandala#1) were already at 15" tall when they showed their pre-flowers at age 6 weeks from seed! The thickness of the stems, and the over-all vigor of these strains are second to none! Plus $20 a pack of 10 isnt bad either! My two cents

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OldBasilisk

Bah, I had landraces that ate up the mandala in terms of vigor.

The landraces were flowering 3 weeks prior to the mandala stains, and they were all grown under the same conditions. The mandala were simply not ready to flower as soon as the LR Sativa

Now, in flower, the Mandala have caught up and surpased the landraces, bulking and crystalizing at an accellerated rate.

Their picking up speed and putting on weight the final stretch doesn't alter their history of slow growth during veg.

Slo Rated Friend

Are you comparing or opposing landraces to the Mandala strains. I believe all of the Mandala Sativas are comprised of mostly Nepal Landrace genetics.

speedracer-x

Bottom line from the vast majority is that Mandala is great for the $$$.

OldBasilisk

I am not dissing Mandala strains, I LIKE THEM.
I happened to have ~6+ strains going at the same time, and
SIDE BY SIDE, MY LANDRACE VARIETIES ATE THEM UP IN VEG.
All of them.

Not suprising either, considering un/acclimatized landraces have likely been naturally selected for vigor for generations. If they were fighting over nutrients in a patch of dirt, the landraces would have shaded out and starved all competition.
It is not that the Mandala strains were the slowest growing of all the strains I had in the side-by-side. Mandala was the simply the subject in question.
That was my experience with a very homogenous batch of ~20+ Mandala plants of two strains grown in a side-by-side. Based on the homogenicity and the number of plants, I am certain that my results were representative.
As I said before, they did show quality once in flower and overall I am very pleased with them.

I do favor landrace genetics in the mix.

Slo Rated Friend

So in other words your landrace was better then mandala's landrace. Which strains were these?

OldBasilisk

lol, SF - I haven't said that yet.

As it stands, this is my first Mandala grow and I'm willing to give them a good cure / share them around a bit for feedback before I paint them with such a broad brush - though they do have some pretty stiff competition.

Maybe they are better, maybe not. By appearances alone, the Mandala are much more frosty, nevertheless...

Off topic, the landrace I grow are unavailable commercially - likely equatorial (origin of import) - I really have no idea where they came from. They've been local for several human generations according to one source. I just came into them a few years ago, but haven't found a higher grade replacement.

bobbooty

the hashberry by mandala is certainly gaining some notice, even high times lists it in its top 10 strains currently. (the best of high times:hydro guide 2007, pg. 20). hashberry supposedly contains landrace gens from Kashmir, hence the "hash" part of the name, we just need people to grow out as many of these as possible, and find a good pheno, worthy of producing elite clones for this strain, and share the gens with the rest of the growers here in the US.

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