JWM2 said:

I quit using jiffy pellets personally. They do work but they are not ideal imo. One thing to do if you want to keep using them is soak them in some lime water when hydrating them. Then squeeze off the excess moisture so they aren’t too wet.

Imo you should start your seeds before putting them in any growing medium. To do so just use the paper towel method.

Take a sheet of paper towel and get it damp with warm water. Then wring our the excess so they are damp and not wet. Then put your seeds in and fold the paper towel over them so they are encapsulated in damp paper towel. Then insert that into a ziplock bag. Blow a little warm air into the bag and close it. Then put it in a warm spot and usually within 24-48 hours they’ll crack and show a tap root. I like to wait for the tap root to get about 1/2-1” long and then carefully plant that into your growing medium.

You may need to poke a hole in the medium to not damage the tap root and then using the tool push a little growing medium around the tap root. Just be sure to plant it tap root down.

Personally I’ve started using a mixture of BioBizz light mix, coco coir and perlite to start seedlings and freshly rooted clones. It gives them a little nutrient to work with and then you can start feeding almost right away. With seeds I’ll wait a week or two before their first feeding. With clones I start feeding right away.

I use the small clear solo cups as my container for seedlings and roots with holes punched in the bottom for drainage. Then insert the small solo cup into a larger solo cup and wait until the roots have filled the bottom of the small cup before transplanting to another container.

To remove the rooted plant from the solo cup you can lightly squeeze the bottom of the cup to loosen the roots and soil from the edges. Then they just slide right out. Don’t worry if you lose a couple small roots, they’ll grow back.

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JWM2 said:

Yeah go ahead and ride these out. There’s not much you can do now really. You can dig away some soil and see if there has been any activity with the seed(s). Maybe they are just growing slowly.

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JWM2 said:

Btw the plant inside the solo cup with a dome lid was a freshly rooted clone. I like to keep them hydrated this way until I can see roots. Once I see roots the dome lid comes off and they’re off and running.

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elcolombiano said:

ok, thanks! Will try to ride this germination out. But will begin some tests, too!!! got plenty of seeds to test while i decide on my light (and what good is my light without seeds to grow)! So in case anyone else is interested in how I will be testing how to germinate these 6+ y/o seeds, here it goes.

So, first:
I took the oldest jiffy, the one that has 2 seeds in it (soaked the 22nd, put on jiffy the 23rd) and has got the spores forming on top, and dug out the seeds. Nothing, not even a mini crack to be found. They just look swollen... bigger than before. So maybe, the embryo is growing but the shell is too hard for it to crack open? Decided to keep the seeds (put them in the soil outside with other random plants) but threw away the moldy pellet. Let's hope they at least pop in that soild outside.
I wont bother looking at the other jiffy seeds (soaked and put in individual jiffys the 28th). I'll give em another week, hope they don't get moldy, and them dig em out to see what is happening if they haven't sprouted, but i have a good feeling about them.

Second:
I have 12 seeds now trying the paper towel method...
8 were just put/wrapped in the warm moist towel, introduced the towel in a ziplock, blew a bit of warm breath into the ziplock, closed ziplock, and placed it over my cabletv decoder. condensation is already forming inside the bag, so i guess all is well so far.
the other 4 seeds were also placed in the papertowel/ziplock/decoder method but in a different ziplock than the other 8 AND 2 were scared/scrapped using a razor blade, other 2 were untouched. Let's see which germinate first.

My further plan is to transplant the germinated seed into coco coir to grow in hempy buckets. I like the double cup method @JWM2 shared, so i might try that instead of passing straight into the bucket.

Thanks again!

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Erick31876 said:

I like your trick of using the clear cup as a humidity dome.im gonna have to give it a try

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Madmax said:

Ive had old seeds .put some in warm water bud..not luke warm..warmer than that and put cup somewhere where it will stay warm..just try it you gou nothin to lose.if not cracked in say 18 hrs make it even warmer.and see how you go..

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