My #$*&@# Seed Won't Hatch...

you had it right Stinkster......now imagine a perfectly FLAT crushed seed.

I'll scuff some up before trying again...:thumbsup:

Some seeds are just to thick sometimes.

Or in my case, where the seeds were old, abused, and utterly USELESS.

This was my first attempt.

My second attempt is going along pretty well thus far. I am hoping to see the little saps poking through the substrate soon.

hey weedhound ive been growing feminized seeds fro ages an never really had a problem if those seeds are from the same company i think they are then there customer service is very good but they dont help people in the states ive had replacement seeds sent out to me on a few occasions but if your in the usa then you should contact the person/ company you get em from see if they can replace em for you i jus soak mine in water over night for no more than 12 hours then pot em in soil i usually find that one or two have popped thru in the water overnight
u could try that technique its always been used by me for many years an always is given at least a 90% germ rate or i got the seeds replaced for free cos none sprouted. on 3 occassions that happened from 2 different companies

Thanks for the tips you guys......I dumped the crushed one and have started on number 3....nice and scuffed thanks to Stinky's advice.

If this one doesn't go I WILL get in touch with the company and see if I can get them replaced...;)

I once had some extremely tough seeds. Filing them a bit worked. I also had success by carefully filing and then prying a seed open and taking out the embryo-baby-fetus-plant... whatever you wanna call it.... kinda like performing a SEED-section. Then put it into the damp-paper-towel-tupperware-incubator and it started to grow fine without any damage. I did a few like that to make sure it would work; thousands of bagseeds are fun to play with!