Slush Mint Cake - Dutch Passion

Danylo For a few days now we had the first 5-pronged leafs which means we're officially in VEG! Quite a lot happened in the last six days .. she grew, she rooted through her little 0.5L pot - got transferred to a 3.5L and then she got her first haircut. Gave her a day to acclimatize after getting repotted and then removed most of her fan leafs. Her fan leafs had long stems so there was some light reaching the lateral branches, but they weren't developing as fast as they should. Yes she looks a little ratty directly after.. (Marked the pictures for easier temporal placing this time : lower number = younger plant)

Danylo When the pics were taken, the plant already was 8 days older than the previous diary entry. A little over a week but I'd rather do this than skip the week. This pretty Slush Mint Cake lands (structure wise..) right in the middle of her two roomies. Internodal spacing not too large and not too small. Until now it grows mostly predictable! (which I love ❤️) Defoliation at this stage focusses mostly on fan leafs and some larger leafs of the lateral branches. Yes, the plants look a little hungover from that sometimes 💩 In her near future there is a move into her final pot (and the flower tent) and almost directly after that she is getting topped and set to 12/12 by daily decrements.

Danylo I transplanted the Slush Mint Cake the day after the Chemdog. She was a little smaller but appeared to have great roots! And despite me being a little too generous while watering, she had almost no visible deficiencies. Her frame right now is almost candelabra-shaped! Interestingly, she (for now) has just a moderate "yep that's a cannabis plant" smell. The other two are already slightly stinky. I'd love to know if there is any way to predict the finished intensity from these early impressions.. 🤷 The slight overwatering fixed itself after 1-2 days. Not droopy anymore ❤️ Next week she'll get topped, rested for a few days and then sent into 1212-land!

Danylo This is my Slushy at the end of W4Veg! The drooping from "overwatering" is mostly past us, but as it seems right now, she LIKES to droop everytime she's getting something to drink. She hasn't established her final root-system in the big pot so this may very well change later! She got topped this week. Structure after topping is very much to my liking! ❤️ ...topped her at the same time as the major defoliation for the whole tent and realized afterwards that I didn't take any "before-defol-top" pics. 8( Leaf tips have some clawing down-and-up stuff going on.. shouldn't really happen at these EC levels so I will keep an eye on it!

Danylo Soooo. Week5Veg is finished for this very interesting Slush Mint Cake! Let's start with the usual: Pre-flowerflip cleanup is done and I took off sooo much that I'm questioning my methods. 🤷 This usually means I did just enough. During this she gave off an aroma I can only describe as candied tobacco. Very FULL bouquet, very sweet. Already. I don't really like _burned_ tobacco , but the fresh stuff is pleasant! Now for observations that go contrary to my experience with other cannabis plants: - She is THE droop queen. Droop from medium watering, droop when she'd tanked enough light that day. And I don't mean a little droopy. Major-League professional drooping! Only chance to see her praying was the first few hours into her daily light-time when she had been watered the day before. - While doing the preflower-cleanup I finally realized why that was (probably) happening. Her leafs are BIG, have long stems which add lever, and to round it off they are heavy af and have thicker stems than some lateral branches I've seen on other plants. - I had to cut off some actual branches during this and for the first time I'd seen a plant leak some serious fluid from the cuts. I guess she had to provide some actual pressure to keep those leafs up! I really gotta read up on the processes that make this happen .. I think its called turgor ? Anyways... I love to see new stuff and learn more about this beautiful plant-species! Excited to see what she surprises us with in flower!

Danylo Sorry, not the most (and not the best) pics this week... This is her first week of mostly 1212. Didn't have to do a whole lot of work on her this week. She's been through enough recently. 💩 She's looking a little lopsided/disproportionate at the moment, because I left on some of her big fan leafs to help with photosynthesis during recovery. And these are growing hilariously fast on her! As soon as she's filled out again these will have to go too.

Danylo About ten days of 1212 now. Transition into flower is going well. Stretch is hitting the afterburner though. 😬 She's a little lanky atm but thats just ample space for buds! 🙏 After the heavy defol during the last few weeks she recovered nicely and makes good use of the light she gets from above again. Did some defoliation (as usual) ..she produces these perfect dark green fanleafs! Always hurts to remove them. Can't wait to rub off some trichomes in her near future to see what she aims for bouquet-wise! Always one of the highlights in a plant life-cycle for me.❤️

Danylo This week it was time to do the last big cleanup in her run. During the last one I do some defoliation and (more importantly) remove the branches/budsites which won't be getting enough light or space to become good flower. I REALLY don't want some larf-to-be stealing resources from good buds. On her, luckily, I didn't even have to remove that much! She went from droop-queen to stretch-queen though.. damn. Anyway, she should be mostly through that now, and her spacing is still quite good. Sometimes this kind of stem-growth results in amazing looking bud structure in later flower so fingers crossed!😋 Right now she is a little light-green in the upper third. I'm upping the EC a smidge to be safe, but she should acclimate soon anyways. Trichome-wise she is the furthest of the three! Can't wait to rubby smelly in the coming 1-2 weeks. 😊

Danylo So this was the third full week of flower for my Slush Mint Cake. I have, by now, bumped the light hours from 12 (to switch initally) to 12:40 again. I think with these three I can go to 13. Actually trying this out because I read a very interesting study regarding 12h vs 13h light in flower¹. Too bad I don't have a control group 8( Not a lot to do this week. Stretch has finished.. And while she stretched quite a bit, she has very nice and sturdy stems! Stem-genes are often underappreaciated but as I like to take my plants out of the tent for inspection/work this kind of dictates how much fun caring for a specific plant is for me. Trichome-wise she is the fastest of these three. I did the rubby-smelly twice now and even had to tell my brother about this: At the moment she actually smells sweet(creamy/doughy) with a note of freshness (eucalyptus/minty?) Very little spice or funk yet. Super cool! .. looking forward to "retest" this every time I come by the tent 💩 Took shit pics with my phone again this week and tried to correct them.. still don't look right. Sorry bros! ¹)Ahrens, A.; Llewellyn, D.; Zheng, Y. Longer Photoperiod Substantially Increases Indoor-Grown Cannabis’ Yield and Quality: A Study of Two High-THC Cultivars Grown under 12 h vs. 13 h Days. Plants 2024, 13, 433. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13030433

Danylo Another week done and happy that she has somewhat settled into her final form! She kept me on my toes until now so I don't know if she would be the right strain for me when I was just starting out! As with the others: This week was MKP-week (right after stretch ends), where I add 200mg/L of MonoKaliumPhosphat (0-52-34) every watering to help provide changing nutrition-needs from vegmode-flowermode. It's somewhat of a PK 13/14 analogue. She is the most resinous of the three by quite a bit still. Aroma is getting more complex by the week... aaand this week was a Gelato push? Had to make sure my nose isn't lying to me (via seedfinder) but yeah some gelato is creeping in.. which I really like ❤️ Stretch was a lot but stems are THICC and as it looks we are in for some really cool flower structure! Some flowering parts are getting a little light-green in appearance. At the same leafs, however there are signs of colour change into something darker. A lot of times when a plant gets dark, they get a little lighter during transition... sooo we'll keep an eye on it!

Danylo I tried an old 10MP DigiCam this week and despite being 15 years old it took pictures that were sometimes better than my phone. Seriously considering buying an actual camera ATM. If there are camera-people in here: Would a (used) Sony Alpha 6000 be a bad choice ? This Slush Mint Cake is doing very well! She is packing on mass, visible trichs and aroma! Right now she is smelling somewhat like creamy sugary candy with a fruit note that in our society would be described by colour rather than the fruit itself (like "Blue" or "Pink") .. What colour would she be? No clue! .. Delicious! Jokes aside: ..right now she might be one of my all-time favourites bouquet-wise. ❤️ Can't stop the rubby-smelly every time I come by the tent 😋 Leafs are visibly getting darker around the edges and now even on the surface. I like where this is going! Unfortunately she suffers from a little bit of clawing ..possible that she needs a little less Nitrogen than the average plant. Oh right! .. What did I do with/to the plant this week?: Nothing! Just watering. 😎

Danylo [Cams'n'Pix] This week again there are pics from two different Cameras. MotoG84 and Nikon Coolpix 7100. I entered the source into the "Your message here" Field for each picture. (Don't have to do much to the Nikon pix, but with the MotoG84 colour temp is usually sooo far off... I think if it would just completely guess, it would at least SOMETIMES be correct 🤷 [Plants] I am VERY happy I got a new carbon filter for this run, because even this new, BIGGER one is fighting for its' life LOL.😶 This Slush Mint Cake, which is right now in it's "rainbow-gummy-bear-icecream-phase" is stiiinking!! wtf... Growing weed is legal! here, but during longer work with the tent open I have to put a towel over the outside-facing door's (bottom) gap, because even for ME it's a little much 😦 The buds on her are probably the densest/heaviest ones I had until now. Luckily the stems are appropriate in strength because they would straight up break from these sand-filled-hackey-sack-ass-buds. For some time now I reduced her nitrogen because of visible clawing, and that does seem to have worked a charm. Slightly reduced clawing on the affected regions and no new clawing anywhere else. Maybe she doesn't like nitrogen that much, or maybe she loves a competing cation sooo much she pulls in more NO3 than she should. 🤷 Upper leafs are getting visibly darker all around - I'd love it if she ends up Dark Purple/Gray like on some of the pictures I've seen! ❤️

Danylo About 10-14 days until harvest left! 😍 Out of the three, the Slush Mint Cake is the lowest maintenance plant this run. She's just chugging along, making trichomes, terpenes and chilling. Stems are great, smell is super delicious ... love plants like this! Most pics this week were taken on a Sony α6000, and while the good pics look great, most of what I am producing looks like ass. 💩 This thing has more buttons/dials than a fucking time machine. Lots of respect to people who just take good pictures with stuff like this because as a beginner: shit ain't easy! (I'm taking a course on photography basics right now, just so stuff like aperture and focal length and and and etc. doesn't sound like an alien language in the future.) Right now pics are hit-and-miss mostly. My phone had like one! button!!

Danylo This is the last update before harvesting this beauty! I probably should tomorrow... buuuuuut im postponing to the weekend which means I have a few days to make up a reason why. (Lazyness 😶) She has been a very good girl! No capriciousness, no bananas at the end no nothing! Amazing aroma and probably the most resin of all plants I've grown until today. (I literally had overexposure problems on pictures taken with flash because of all the trichome glitter!) I took a little test-bud and the effects seem very very enjoyable too! 😌

Danylo Boys I got lucky with this one! VAPED: Taste is not that easy to describe: .. think: "Verrrrrry sliiightly roasted caramel-cream+fruit Gummy-Bears" with a strong Gelato direction. Even though there are a lot of OGs in the family tree, THAT aroma isn't really prominent. Wouldn't have been a great fit anyways I think. EFFECTS: Don't know how much of my experience is transferrable to other people, but for me primarily there is a CLEAR relaxation component. Super good mood.. but no racing thoughts/ideas. I don't wanna get up and do LOOOTS of stuff... , but the thought of making dinner feels like a very interesting thing to do, you know? All in all taste and effects are awesome AND I got lucky with a great pheno/harvest at the same time ? Happy Dan!😌 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A big thanks to everyone for your interest in this strain/diary. Love you guys! ❤️