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12-16-2012, 10:40 PM #6Senior Member
Help! Is she dead? - Seedling did not sprout
OK, there's one thing you can try.
I've had days when nothing would sprout, and other days when seed from the same batch germed 100%.
Lola used to blame it on the moon.
I no wanna believe, I wanna know!
So, I started checking variables.
Bingo!
Moon, schmoon, the correlation was Relative Humidity.
Seeds get their sprouting signal from moisture.
On high humidity days here, the seed husk has trouble knowing that it just got wet.
So, I planted a bunch on a day with 80% RH.
Not a sausage.
So, I just left them there until the soil was very dry.
When the RH hit 40% I figured the seed husk was dry enough and gave them plain tap water.
90% germed!
This is not science, of course, but I'd call it an indicator.
And, it won't help sprouted seeds, sprouts must never dry out.
Now I watch the RH, and I'm back to >90% success with known good seed.
You got dead seed, you got problems.
Bottom line?
At this point you could wait another 7 days.
But you should dry out at least some of them and try re-wetting.
Aloha, hope it he'ps,
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