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Hi all.
I was just wondering the ideal pH for germination? Even very early seedling stages if left in the ‘germination water’/‘germination medium’/paper towel/etc. so long that that the plant starts to need light.
I was doing a little home experiment the other day, trying different pH water, range of 4.0-7.5pH skipping by 0.5 the whole way. My mistake was to use the water to soak a paper towel in the pH’ed because the paper towel made the pH of the water ~irrelevant. It always would rise to 7 and more, I didn’t pay a lot of attention after seeing this though, just always out if range on the high side.
I have started my home experiment againnearly on day 3, this time I’m just using shot glasses of pH’ed water to germinate the seeds.
What I wonder is which pH will do the best?
I just saw a day or two ago where Bruce Bugbee was on Reddit a little while back and he stated the following...
I noticed that he said this after starting my experiment, though I do try to keep all my mediums the same, 5.7-5.9 ish now.
So that is what I was thinking anyways. But I also wonder the ~longer term effects of germination in a ~medium that is so far out of range on the pH. I will be using all the seeds to grow out, at least a little ways, in the cups as long as possible to see what they do, and how much difference between different pH.
So normally, if doing a paper towel method there is only a day or so spent in the paper towel. This will not be very similar to that, at the time, I should have put the ones that didn’t germ in a paper towel into a cup of 5.9 water to see if the initial high pH paper towel, also made them no longer viable.
I’m just doing this for fun, I always just plant my seeds in the ~5.9 pH soil now and everything germinates.
I have them elevated now so there won’t be any hot spots from the heat mat. 70-75F.
So, what do you think is ideal pH for germination?
And, do you think it will harm germination rate if you soak or use paper towel that the pH is to far out of range, prior to putting the seed into the medium?
I was just wondering the ideal pH for germination? Even very early seedling stages if left in the ‘germination water’/‘germination medium’/paper towel/etc. so long that that the plant starts to need light.
I was doing a little home experiment the other day, trying different pH water, range of 4.0-7.5pH skipping by 0.5 the whole way. My mistake was to use the water to soak a paper towel in the pH’ed because the paper towel made the pH of the water ~irrelevant. It always would rise to 7 and more, I didn’t pay a lot of attention after seeing this though, just always out if range on the high side.
I have started my home experiment againnearly on day 3, this time I’m just using shot glasses of pH’ed water to germinate the seeds.
What I wonder is which pH will do the best?
I just saw a day or two ago where Bruce Bugbee was on Reddit a little while back and he stated the following...
I noticed that he said this after starting my experiment, though I do try to keep all my mediums the same, 5.7-5.9 ish now.
So that is what I was thinking anyways. But I also wonder the ~longer term effects of germination in a ~medium that is so far out of range on the pH. I will be using all the seeds to grow out, at least a little ways, in the cups as long as possible to see what they do, and how much difference between different pH.
So normally, if doing a paper towel method there is only a day or so spent in the paper towel. This will not be very similar to that, at the time, I should have put the ones that didn’t germ in a paper towel into a cup of 5.9 water to see if the initial high pH paper towel, also made them no longer viable.
I’m just doing this for fun, I always just plant my seeds in the ~5.9 pH soil now and everything germinates.
I have them elevated now so there won’t be any hot spots from the heat mat. 70-75F.
So, what do you think is ideal pH for germination?
And, do you think it will harm germination rate if you soak or use paper towel that the pH is to far out of range, prior to putting the seed into the medium?