gemination techniques

[juanhue]

whats the best way to geminate seeds?

 

[vostok]

depends on the type of seeds you mean,
fresh, old, ancient, they all have their purpose, assume its fresh seeds,
use the paper towel method,
lay your seeds on a damp kitchen towel for 2-3 days in a warm place to see them germ ...
then to a pot of soil​

 

[Granger2]

I would skip the paper towels. Soak seeds 24 hours, plant 1/8" deep in medium. Avoid the risk of damaging tap root. Good luck. -granger

 

[Nostur]

I used towel and rockwool plugs. Paper towel was fast, but the problem is when transplanting, it is easy to damage the taproot. I suggest to put the seeds directly to PH5.5 rockwool plugs. It's easy and foolproof, just follow many of the manuals on the internet.

 

[vostok]

Avoid damaging the root
let by ensuring the seed
has cracked and sowing
early​

 

[juanhue]

I used towel and rockwool plugs. Paper towel was fast, but the problem is when transplanting, it is easy to damage the taproot. I suggest to put the seeds directly to PH5.5 rockwool plugs. It's easy and foolproof, just follow many of the manuals on the internet.

I agree with this method.
What if started in soil, would you change the ph or use ph 5.5 until you see the first set of leaves, then up the ph levels?
Any thoughts on using rain water indoors

 

[Nostur]

If it was on me, I'd use PH say 5.8 and flush the soil thoroughly with it. Or just buy 5.5 soil mix from shop. Personally, I use PH between 5.5 and 6.2 during the whole growth, and never had any problems.

Rain water can be fine, for peace, just get EC meter and find out what EC does it have. Also, if you can afford it (its not expensive) collect some rain water and do a lab tests to see what is inside the water. Chances are you have some factory around that produces some shit and ventilates it in the air, thus fucking up your water. Lab tests are quite cheap and unsuspicious, don't be afraid.

 

[mk6]

like Vostex said 'careful not to damage the roots'

Roots have a tendency to grow right into the paper towel, so when you transfer them, ie take them off/out of the towel the roots get caught and break. very sad

not sure why you'd put the seedling into rockwool, then soil, when you can go straight into soil, it works but slows the initial growth, as the roots have to adjust.

I do like Granger, 'soak-m for 24 hours' then I place them in a prewetted lightly packed cocomix cup, place-m in a tray under a some low watt cfl's, and in a few days their up.

 

[RonSmooth]

Soak the seed in room temp water overnight, make a small hole & drop it in. Keep the environment comfortable and stable. Then wait.

 

[Nostur]

Soaking seeds is dangerous due to the possibility of starting mold pretty fast. I suggest using wet paper towel, or rockwool plugs, thats foolproof.

 

[DrFever]

Yea nix the soaking of seeds where on earth do seeds naturally soak for 24 hrs ????
to me that is ridiculous ,,, and looking for a failure rate and other issues
Best way to germinate is paper towel with out a doubt mist ass wipe place seeds on top mist seeds cover with another layer of ass wipe mist and place in clear plastic container with lid mist top of lid then under into dome with T5;s 12 hrs later there cracked 100 percent of the time then carefully place in medium of choice

 

[DrFever]

like Vostex said 'careful not to damage the roots'

Roots have a tendency to grow right into the paper towel, so when you transfer them, ie take them off/out of the towel the roots get caught and break. very sad

not sure why you'd put the seedling into rockwool, then soil, when you can go straight into soil, it works but slows the initial growth, as the roots have to adjust.

I do like Granger, 'soak-m for 24 hours' then I place them in a prewetted lightly packed cocomix cup, place-m in a tray under a some low watt cfl's, and in a few days their up.

yes they do grow into paper towel if left unattended trick is to not worry about the paper towel carefully cut around the root structure and pacing that little paper towel into your medium as well it will break down with no stress to plants

 

[barnyard]

a seed tray with seed germination mix under a pair of 4' florescent shop lights with one cool white and one warm white bulb

 

[vostok]

As many may be aware(sarc) seeds need water and heat to germ
one way is to soak the seed in a jar of water, and a pinch of household bleach, to sterilize the process,
the bleach don't make it into the seed just the water, bleach is used to kill any chance of a virus,
or bugs messing with this delicate process

once the seed has sunk(absorbed more water than air?)in the jar,
transfer to a damp kitchen towel for the next 24 hours, be quick here as seeds can actually drown!
if the seed don't sink, thats an indication water has not penetrated the outter shell,
another 8 hours of soak then, if no go, dry the seed out and scarify the outter shell and try try again.

Once the seed has germed, the seed has 'cracked' and a small white tail is sticking out,
once that tail is 1/4-1/2 inch long, very gently tip your seed to your prepared 4 inch pot or jiffy plug,
keep warm in low light for the next 2-3 days, once the little 'baby'(cotyledon)
leave are up and running give her some more light​

 

[barnyard]

A short bleach soak is a good idea.

I'm not seeing the benefit of germination outside of the medium.

 

[Guest]

Any of the methods posted here I'm sure work fine. It's pretty hard to argue with just making a hole in moist dirt and throwing in the seed, provided the soil is kept reasonably warm. I just seem to be in the group that has to see a tail pop out before burial. For that reason and because I have very good results, I use a baby wipe warmer. Low heat level and humidity is easy to control in the closed chamber. I lay sponges on a plastic grate that sets just above small amount of water. Cheap and works great for me.




Keif

 

[smartone]

any of the posted methods here will work however I am also with kief on this one I must see my seeds germinate before planting.the way I choose to germinate my seeds is by placing a cup full of water next to a heat source such as top of the fridgerator or on top of my water heater or using a heat pad I would then place seeds inside Cup and allowed to soak for 24 hrs.after 24 hours I go back and check the cup and usually about 40 percent of my seeds germinate I then place the seeds that have germinated in my pots in my veg room. the seeds that have not germinated is then placed into a wet paper towel folded and put into a sandwich baggie and placed on top of the heat source I have chosen to use until said seeds germinate and then get placed into medium and put into that room I have a 100 percent germrate on viable seeds doing this

 

[Don Dump]

direct in the medium.. these are not hard seeds to grow.. majority should pop up in like 3-4 days, if not check your sources and environment.. I dont like to monkey around with delicate little roots

from my observations I think the seed should stay in one place, because immediately after (during?) germination it feels which way is up/down and shoots then root down and tries to flip itself up out of the dirt. when I used to plant pre-germinated seeds it seemed it would twist around in the dirt and take an extra day or 2 to get sorted and start growing

 

[barnyard]

Agreed Don, the radicle needs leverage to lift the canopy. The radicle emerges then plunges down into the medium creating 90* angle. Proper hilum positioning prevents confusion of the radicle.

 

[vostok]

Any of the methods posted here I'm sure work fine. It's pretty hard to argue with just making a hole in moist dirt and throwing in the seed, provided the soil is kept reasonably warm. I just seem to be in the group that has to see a tail pop out before burial. For that reason and because I have very good results, I use a baby wipe warmer. Low heat level and humidity is easy to control in the closed chamber. I lay sponges on a plastic grate that sets just above small amount of water. Cheap and works great for me.

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Keif

I never heard of these, then again I have no immediate baby ...a tutorial here would be nice, as I often leave the seed to germ in a dish on my modem ...lol​