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I have been using this method and it works very well.
1) Soak a cotton pad with a solution of (20%) 3% H2o2 and (80%) tap water. Don't wring it out or squeeze any water from it. Put the seeds in there. Let soak until the crack. This is the party I stole from another member on here. I do not remember who. If you are reading this and this sounds like your idea, feel free to take credit.
2)Put in pre soaked rockwool cube.
-----Soak rockwool for 24 hours at pH 5.5. 1 tsp/gal bleach, 1 Tablespoon per gallon clonex.
3) Then place the seed in the rockwool, break off a small chunk from the corner of the cube, just enough to lightly cover the hole.
4) Place the cube in a small styrofoam cup the kind they use for water dispensers... it's the small small one. When you need to water the cube, pour a tiny amount of water down the side of the cup so that the cup fills about 1/8" with water. The cube will suck up the water and you can pour out any excess that doesn't get soaked up, or add more if it sucked up everything. Until it's saturated.
Usually I water every day this way because the cubes can dry up fast. I keep them under a double t-5 and when they pop I let them get their tap root to the bottom of the cube, and from there it will start to branch out (new auxiliary roots from the main tap root. Now you can transplant to a 4" cube or coco that has been pre soaked/conditioned. Place cube, and do not water until almost dry with very light nutes. Once seedling is up with 3 nodes or more, you can be less gentle with it as it will be past the stage of being able to die from damping off. The hardest part of seeds is not watering them too much.
I'll throw some pics up too to detail this better, but I get 100% germ this way and no damping off anymore.
1) Soak a cotton pad with a solution of (20%) 3% H2o2 and (80%) tap water. Don't wring it out or squeeze any water from it. Put the seeds in there. Let soak until the crack. This is the party I stole from another member on here. I do not remember who. If you are reading this and this sounds like your idea, feel free to take credit.
2)Put in pre soaked rockwool cube.
-----Soak rockwool for 24 hours at pH 5.5. 1 tsp/gal bleach, 1 Tablespoon per gallon clonex.
3) Then place the seed in the rockwool, break off a small chunk from the corner of the cube, just enough to lightly cover the hole.
4) Place the cube in a small styrofoam cup the kind they use for water dispensers... it's the small small one. When you need to water the cube, pour a tiny amount of water down the side of the cup so that the cup fills about 1/8" with water. The cube will suck up the water and you can pour out any excess that doesn't get soaked up, or add more if it sucked up everything. Until it's saturated.
Usually I water every day this way because the cubes can dry up fast. I keep them under a double t-5 and when they pop I let them get their tap root to the bottom of the cube, and from there it will start to branch out (new auxiliary roots from the main tap root. Now you can transplant to a 4" cube or coco that has been pre soaked/conditioned. Place cube, and do not water until almost dry with very light nutes. Once seedling is up with 3 nodes or more, you can be less gentle with it as it will be past the stage of being able to die from damping off. The hardest part of seeds is not watering them too much.
I'll throw some pics up too to detail this better, but I get 100% germ this way and no damping off anymore.
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