Sugar Bomb Punch Grow Diary and Strain Review

This run with Sugar Bomb Punch from Dutch Passion started as a bit of a challenge. A friend wanted an organic grow, and I usually lean more toward mineral feeding, so I treated it as a chance to see how far a good living soil setup could carry one plant.

I only started one seed. Before the run, I had read that Sugar Bomb Punch could be slow in veg and that phenotypes might vary, so I didn’t want to fill the whole space before I understood how this plant would behave.

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Sugar Bomb Punch (Dutch Passion)

• Photoperiod
• Euphoric couch-lock
• 500 g/m² indoors

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1

3

10

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Starting the Run

Week 1-4

I didn’t plan to keep a full diary at first, so the early part is mostly from memory. The seed started normally, and the plant spent the first stretch in a smaller pot before I moved it into a 40l (10.6gal) container with organic soil.

The room stayed around 25°C (77°F). Veg was not fast, but it also didn’t look sick. I topped the plant once it was ready, then let it settle before expecting too much from it.

That big pot was part of the experiment. I wanted the soil to do most of the work, without adding bottled nutrients unless the plant clearly asked for help later.

Week 5

The transplant went fine, but there wasn’t a big growth jump afterward. When I checked the old root ball, it didn’t look badly crowded, so the plant probably hadn’t been desperate for more space yet.

The light was a Mars TS 1000 at 150W, hanging about 90cm (35.4in) above the plant on an 18/6 schedule. With the larger pot, I stopped watering daily and switched to 3l (0.8gal) every 3 days.

By the end of the week, a few fresh shoots had formed, and the plant was around 15cm (5.9in) tall.

Week 6

The white clover cover crop started coming through and slowly made a living carpet over the soil. It looked good, but I mostly liked the idea of having something active around the root zone instead of bare soil.

The plant was getting bushier by now, with a squat shape that made training necessary. I set up the ScrOG net and started tucking the tops under the elastic lines to spread the growth sideways.

Week 7

This was the first week where the plant really changed. New leaves came in quickly, the side growth picked up, and the height reached about 20cm (7.9in).

The net was already useful, but I managed to make a mistake while tucking one branch. I heard a crack and saw that the shoot was half-broken. I fixed it in place and hoped it would heal, but it was still annoying.

Veg Progress and Training

Week 8

The plant still hadn’t received any added fertilizer. The soil seemed to be carrying it well, and the growth looked strong enough that I had to remove about 10 large fan leaves to open the lower part of the canopy.

The broken branch didn’t recover, so I cut it off. Not a huge loss, but I would have preferred to keep every top after spending this much time filling the net.

By the end of the week, the plant had spread nicely across the horizontal space. I decided this would be the last full week on 18/6 before moving into flower.

Week 9

The first week on 12/12 went smoothly. The plant stayed healthy, and the clover cover crop was still doing its job on the soil surface.

I kept using filtered tap water, since the whole point of the run was to let the amended soil provide most of the nutrition. To prepare the plant for flowering, I removed leaves and small growth up to the last 3 nodes on each branch.

Week 10

The plant kept stretching toward the light, and the canopy filled back in quickly after the cleanup. The leaves had a bright green color, so at this point I still felt that the soil was holding up well.

The first pistils appeared in the nodes and on the tops. I used prepared compost tea this week and alternated it with plain water.

There was almost no smell in the room, but even a light touch left a familiar hashy scent on my hands.

Week 11

Flowering moved forward, but I started seeing small signs of nutrient deficiency. I didn’t want to let the problem build, so I added a small dose of CALiMAGic and a minimal amount of pH Perfect Micro, Grow, and Bloom.

That wasn’t the original organic-only plan, but the plant looked like it needed help. I’d rather correct a small issue early than watch the leaves fade through the most important part of flower.

The Flip and Early Flower

Week 12

The plant kept developing, and the dense leaf structure pushed me into another defoliation. The buds were already starting to take shape, but it was still too early to call the flowering stage halfway done.

This week I fed only compost tea. The super soil clearly wasn’t working perfectly, though, because the leaf issues didn’t fully disappear.

Week 13

The plant was holding up, but the magnesium and phosphorus problems became more obvious. I added Epsom salt at 4.5g (0.16oz) per 1.5l (0.4gal) of water, then followed with seabird guano a day later.

I hoped the corrections would be enough to keep the damage small. The plant still looked capable, but the soil mix obviously wasn’t as complete as I wanted it to be.

Week 14

The plant changed a lot over the next few days. Resin production really picked up, with large pale trichomes covering not only the flowers but many of the nearby leaves too.

The smell grew stronger, though it still wasn’t sharp or difficult to manage. From this point on, I kept adding Epsom salt and bat guano to the water until the flush.

Week 15

The buds were rounding out and gaining weight. The whole plant had that frosted look, with trichomes sitting so heavily on the surface that the strain name suddenly made sense.

Some trichomes had already started turning cloudy. Judging by their condition, I figured harvest was probably only a couple of weeks away.

Late Flower and Finish

Week 16

Near the end, the plant looked healthy again and seemed much happier than it had during the deficiency scare. The flowers were dense enough that I stopped wanting to interfere much.

I watched the trichomes closely and kept the last stretch simple. After the corrections in mid-flower, the plant didn’t give me any new serious problems.

Week 17

Harvest came a little early. The resin made trimming slow, and it took me the whole evening to get through the plant, but that was a good kind of work.

The wet flower weight was around 400g (14.1oz). After a week of drying at 30-40% humidity and 20-24°C (68-75.2°F), I ended up with 130g (4.6oz) of dry buds, plus several dozen grams of sugar leaf from trimming.

Sugar Bomb Punch Yield and Final Thoughts

For a first organic run with a strain I hadn’t grown before, 130g (4.6oz) of dry flower felt like a decent result. I still think there’s more to get from the remaining seeds, mostly by building a better soil mix from the start.

The finished aroma leaned nutty and piney, with a sweet aftertaste that made the smoke more pleasant than I expected. It didn’t come across as a simple dessert profile, which I liked.

Because I harvested early, I wasn’t expecting a heavy couch-lock effect. What surprised me was the mix of euphoria and body energy. It felt balanced enough for an evening with friends, but it also worked fine for a quiet night in front of the TV.

Sugar Bomb Punch made me work for it in the middle of flower, but the plant recovered well. The resin production was the highlight of the grow, and next time I’d trust the strain again while taking the soil recipe more seriously.

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