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Yeah makes sense. This is good lesson for me, I don't know what I was thinking drowning them. Luckily have some extra seeds, I'll do a one hour soak and put them on a moist paper. Damn this is one of the best lessons in the grow journey. Some lessons are hard.Between the 40 hr. soak and the sopping wet paper towels, those seeds have been drowned. Let me put it this way. If I hold your head under water for ten minutes, the water doesn't kill you, the lack of oxygen does. Those seeds have been without oxygen for a week and are dead. One way to avoid this in the future is a 4 hr. soak, MOIST not wet paper towel, 70-80F with 75F being optimum.
Toss themHey guys, doing my second grow this time and put my seeds to germinate, first 40 hours in water to hydrate them, then into wet paper towels and it's been more than 1 week and the seeds haven't popped. Some have shown signs of about the pop but hasn't. These seeds I got the same time I got the previous seeds and last time they popped so easily with the same method. Any ideas on what wrong with them? They have swollen also but its not popping. View attachment 1192688View attachment 1192689
If your using old seeds. A trick my old mentor showed me once. He took a toilet paper roll tube and lined it with sandpaper and placed the seeds in the tube and shook for a about a min or 2. I forget what he called this method.
I just did mine for the first time since jr. high lol...never actually grew them, didn’t have a clue how. But when I germinated my 5 seeds a couple weeks ago I used the soak and paper towel method. I soaked for 24 hours in distilled water. You know those Clorox disinfectant wipes? That’s about how wet my paper towels were. I sprayed them each day so they wouldn’t dry out and on the 2nd day they popped, 3rd day one already left it’s shell lol.Hey guys, doing my second grow this time and put my seeds to germinate, first 40 hours in water to hydrate them, then into wet paper towels and it's been more than 1 week and the seeds haven't popped. Some have shown signs of about the pop but hasn't. These seeds I got the same time I got the previous seeds and last time they popped so easily with the same method. Any ideas on what wrong with them? They have swollen also but its not popping. View attachment 1192688View attachment 1192689
haha the first place my friends look to see if i have anything new going is the cable box. Its a good heating pad. Just the right amount of warmth to kick start those seeds.set them on top of your cable box, or modem. that will help. but soaking them that long, im not sure that is good. do you have enough seeds to redo
You don't even want the paper towels to be moist. Just damp. I personally dampen two paper towels, fold the seeds into the two damp paper towels. Then I put two dry paper towels over the damp ones and pop it in a Ziploc bag. Depending on how much moisture the two dry towels soak up you may need to spritz a bit of water into the bag after day 1 but that will be it for water. You don't even need to soak the seed first in my experience. I also put the Ziploc bag in my tent on top of my light which will be on, this generates the heat and creates the humidity you want. They always sprout in 2-3 days.Yeah makes sense. This is good lesson for me, I don't know what I was thinking drowning them. Luckily have some extra seeds, I'll do a one hour soak and put them on a moist paper. Damn this is one of the best lessons in the grow journey. Some lessons are hard.
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