I always put em straight into a small yogurt pot or something similar (cut down a drinks bottle 500ml) straight into the soil just make a small hole with a pencil i mean small about 5-10mm deep put the baby in and cover it. Then place this on your windowcill KEEP THE SOIL MOIST in about 3 days it will have broke the surface.
The seed case may well be still on, dont be tempted to pull it off just spray it with a 'mister' or wat ever there called! this will soften the case and by morning it will have shed the shell by this stage but if not it may need a little help by all means coxe it off but be very gentle and treat them like a baby, During your grow watch everything Always treat it like a baby obsereving every day you will learn fast hopefully.
After the 'cress leaves are out' Then get it under your light wat lighting are you starting with?
A normal energy saveing bulb would be best as it is hard to scorch those delicate seedlings.
Get a smaller pot before you go straight into the 4 litre. Let the soil dry out a little and then gently press the egdes of the yogurt pot, hold the pot with the baby inbetween your index finger and middle and invert the pot and gently tap out, the dryer the soil the easyer this is..
Then put in your second pot and bury it right upto the first node or set of 3 fingered leaf, the steam under the soil will root in time. This stops em going too tall.
then place em under your light making sure not to get em too close but to far and you will get strech between the nodes which anit to desirable... use the back of hand test if you can handle how close it is then a seedling deffantly wont...
Im doing an AK cross and im a few days ahead of you mate ill charge some batterys for my cam tonight and sort you some pictures tomorrow step by step no worries ive got a small one nearly finshed so it will give you something to look foward to as im sure youll blow mine away i fucked up a lilttle but thats a diffrent story!! Best of luck mate it will be interesting to compare hey? got a camera?
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