Simple backwoods hillbilly germination technique

[DirtDevil]

Aside of the conventional way of germinating your seeds in wet paper towels, this year I tried a side experiment for sprouting. All I did was dig a hole chop up the dirt and throw about 30 seeds in it and threw a thin layer of dirt on it, then in about a week they began popping up at a slow stedy pace about about 2 per day and now over half have come up, as soon as they came up I simply pulled them out of the ground tap root and all or with a ball of soil and transplanted it into a more suitable location with very little shock.

 

[glock23]

I do the same thing in potting soil indoors and out. I often get 100% germ rates like this.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

i believe the wet paper towels method is much easier. rather than having to pull a somewhat rooted roots out of dirt.

 

[DirtDevil]

yeah im not really promoting the backwoods method

 

[Xdox]

true the paper towel method probably is easiest but dirtdevil is simply informing us of something and hey maybe someday it would be useful if you didnt have a papertowel eh? thanks man for the info

 

[G. Potter]

I take my little home made cloner tub - keep my water at 90 degrees and then float a lttle bottle of soaking seeds in the tub. At 85-90 degrees germination rates even for difficult strains is greatly - greatly-increased

 

[pipeline]

I didn't have the opportunity to prep one of my spots, but wanted to get some seedlings germing before the summer heat comes, so i did the same thing you're talkin about. Dug up about a 2 ft diameter hole, and sowed the seeds like they were in a flat. The soil is creekbank silt, really good stuff. Its a good technique for certain situations. The weather is favoring germination right now, but in a few weeks who knows.

 

[glock23]

Oh...I don't transplant mine out of the soil. I start right in a pot or cup and then transplant when fully rooted, or sometimes even in the container I'm going to use right up to harvest. Far less stress this way