More Dutch Passion Greatness, Blue Zushi and “SLIC” !!!!2025!!!!

[KingRatt]

After the Lemon Z grow i was so impressed i decided to devote my Photoperiod tent to Dutch Passion strains for the foreseeable future! Im growing in a 2x2x4 tent with a Spider Farmer G3000 300w full spectrum with 4”inline and filter. I am in 5gal fabric pots with Fox Farm Happy Frog and perlite inoculated with GreatWhite. Im using Fox Farm soil trio nutes, Molasses, Botanicare Silica Blast, GreenLeaf Bud Explosion, Humbolt County’s Own SnowStormUltra and TPS CalMag plus on standby if needed. I started the seeds(1xBlue Zushi and 1xSlic) by soaking them in room temp distilled water for 4-5hrs and the put them inside of RootRiot plugs ripped down the side for ease of use, inoculated with GreatWhite, and placed in a humidity dome in the tent with the lights keeping ambient temps at 79f-82f. The beans sprouted after about 48hrs. So here we are!

 

[KingRatt]

Girls are doing great! Im fighting the low RH but im hanging in There! Not much to say yet.

 

[KingRatt]

The girls are starting to catch their stride! The Blue Zushi looks a little ahead of the SLIC as it is a bit bigger, but both are on their third sets of leaves! Ive had to add both small humidifiers to keep RH up but temps amd RH are good and consistent. Just watering with dechlorinated ph’d tap water.

 

[KingRatt]

I started training today! Just very lightly to give the girls a head start and keep my canopy super squat!

 

[KingRatt]

These girls are picking up pace now going into veg! Will probably veg for 5-6wks as they are on the smaller side of hybrids. Ill keep the tops down until they are level and release them along with any additional training and defol before i drop the scrog net(using 2”x2” metal mesh this time around). They got their first real watering in today. Still just getting plain phd tap water (dechlorinated/dechloriminated) )at 6.5. I trimmed their first leaf each also! Temps at 82f and RH is at 55%

 

[KingRatt]

The girls got a little haircut to give the lowers light and help airflow. Theyre just growing amd doing their thing! SLIC is pretty easy to manipulate and is alot strtchier than i was expecting but i like that. The Blue Zushi is super vigorous, bushy and tight noded. It will be a cool contrast between the two! The Slic has 4 and 6 fingered leaves, and the Blue Zushi is putting iut some 6 fingered leaves as well. Dont know where i heard they were rare, but i come across them quite often. I took all the leaves facing inward or shading new growth. Now that they are picking up pace in veg i will probably drop the screen/net in a week ro so.

 

[KingRatt]

The girls are vegging hard, right on time! The SLIC seems to have caught up to the Blue Zushi. I love diversity in my gardens, and these two are growing like polar opposites! The SLIC is Lanky with more space between the nodes, and the branches amd main stem are very flexible. The Blue Zushi is very tight nodes and the branches are much more robust and sturdy. You cant see because the foliage is so thick now, but ive been using garden staples to train them out after i tied the tops down. I will release all that when i drop the screen. They both smell of strong dankness already just in veg. Soon they will get a heavy defoliation, lollipopped slightly and the screen dropped. They will also get their first real feeding when they need water next, probably tonight as they are going on 4wks plain water. Botanicare Silica Blast at 25% Fox Farm soil trio at 50%, GreenLeaf Sea-k at 25%, and molasses at 1/2tsp per gal. ph’d at 6.0-6.5. They should like that! Temps and RH are good at 80-84f and 45-55% rh. I Will flip to 12/12 when the screen is about 90% full.

 

[KingRatt]

This is what they look like after a first defoliation. Early training, the tops have been tied and kept down for about two weeks now, the branches have been stretched and pinned with garden staples and left each branch with a couple true leaves aside from the new growth. This should really encourage secondary growth and just more bud sites in general. They were both fed today for the first time, same as mentioned above. SLIC and Blue Zushi! These genetics really help in Making it look easy!

 

[KingRatt]

Ended up dropping the screen amd pulling the staples this morning. Figure ill start now, I plan on flipping when the screen is just about full, neither of these strains stretches much according to Dutch Passion so ill probably flip when the canopy is 90-95% full, as opposed to 75-80% when i run stretchy genetics. They are looking great!