Danylo (I'm growing P&C and ICCF2 side by side, so both diaries will share (copy&paste) some non-strain-specific-information)
Everyone has a different interpretation of what the "Germination Week" means. I've seen some seeds that take more than a week to even break soil surface so for me it is: "The seven days following the seedling break surface.
The lovely people working at Dutch Passion sent me these seeds in context of the "Dutch Passion Growing Competition 2026" and I gotta say: Quality-wise these seeds are among the best I've ever held in my hand. They all "feel" heavier than usual... also I'm a sucker for strain-specific patterns/colors on the husk! You could put several of these strains in a bowl and it would be easy to seperate them just by their look!
So lets move on from first impression to some actual real life results! :
I let them soak in 0.6-0.7% H2O2 PH7 solution for a little less than 24h. Unusually, they all had their tongue already out when I was putting them in low nutrient soil for actual rooting. And then 2-ish days later they all burst through the soil surface looking for light. All of them. Time between the fastest and the slowest was like 8 hours. Like little bio-robots! 😳
Since then they have almost outgrown their small 0.5L pots during this week. Interesting facts about them:
- While you could easily differentiate them by seed-appearance, the seedlings themselves look almost identical to the ICCF2.
- Quite the elongated leafs for this amount of Indica.
- Fast growing.. ugh I hate repotting 8(- no freaky growth on any of them. Usually there would be _at least_ one that needs to grow out of some funky broccoli shit.
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Germination Method
1
Week 1. Vegetation
7h ago
1/12
9 cm
Height
5 hrs
Light Schedule
22 °C
Day Air Temp
6.4
pH
No Smell
Smell
54 %
Air Humidity
19 °C
Night Air Temp
3.5 liters
Pot Size
Danylo Preface: After initial germination I realized that I didn't have 6 little pots free so I had to 3D print some more. SHOUTOUT!! to Thingiverse user "seajseven" for the model! ❤️ - A 1Kg-Spool prints about 30 of these bad boys so they cost very little, especially in a pinch! =)
I had some fears that the ANYCUBIC PLA+ I'm using would interfere with plant metabolism, but after seeing the healthy plants coming out of these pots I dont think these fears were justified.
Going on... LOTS of other stuff happened this week! : These amazing! Peaches&Cream had rooted through their initial 0.5L pots a good bit faster than the ICCF2s. I know n=3 isn't really great empirical evidence, but all three have better roots than the ICCF2s, resulting in more vigorous growth. I'm guessing the Peach Candy F2 added some amazing root-genes to this cross?! While I was right on time for repotting the ICCF2 , these could have been done 1-2 days earlier!
As with the ICCF2, fresh 3.5L Pots have been prepped with Floragard Professional Grow Mix as well as about 2g/L of an AWESOME powdered Tomato Fertilizer made by Sonnenhof. That shit has saved so many plants and I don't even understand why.
You know... you try to do your best with your method BUT SOMETIMES you just have one plant that starts turning yellow and you don't understand whats going wrong?? I gotta repeat that I don't really understand the mechanism here... I'm guessing it is ph related but that stuff has saved so many plants for my brother that i'm now using it myself as an additive.
All three of the plants are looking great and the middle one is looking even bigger! ❤️