I haven't sprouted seeds in close to 12 years, decided to do some dj short. Finally have the time and space to do a large run to try and find "that" blueberry. I have ALWAYS sprouted using Jiffy cube pots. 10 days later out of 60 seeds, I have 4 sprouts. I dug all the plugs apart and pulled all the seeds out, none had tap roots. Place them in wet paper towels inside a zip lock just to see if they would sprout. Then I recalled - don't DJ short seeds notoriously take FOREVER to sprout and also have horrible percent to sprout? Or am I just making that up? Seeds were from DC Seed Exchange, which I have used in the past with no issue. I have been growing for 30 years and grew up on a farm, so it's not technique.
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DJ Short Seeds Sprouting
- Thread starter merkaba
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Take a seed crack it open and see what's inside. If the embryo is not white and is dead, you are planting dead seeds. Another way is to heat up a spoon red hot and drop a seed in the hot spoon and if it pops loudly it was good.
Old Piney
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If your like me in 12 years you may have fogotten some things . Im not a big fan of the cube for starting seeds , I think they hold too much water . I like the paper towel technique, remember after a good soak wring them out to get that sweet spot not too wet just moist. Another hack I always do is use about a 1/4 tsp of 3% hydrogen peroxide solution to a cup of water to wet everything .good luck !
Yeah, I have always had no issue with peat pots. really you want them very wet at first, then just make sure they don't stay wet once it sprouts to damp off correct? I dug them out and put in a wet paper towel. I'll double back in a day or so. Think I will just get some Riot Seeds Blueberry IX to skip the headaches
