So I'm completely new to the entire realm of growing and I'm already having trouble at step one. seems my luck. anyway, it was bagweed and i've placed about five seeds inside of about 6 moist paper towels in my closet. i have a florescent light bulb in there (not using it for growing, i'm just describing the environment) about 4 feet away from them that i generally leave on at most times. it's been about 3 1/2 days since i set this up and since then my seeds have only browned. no sprouts or anything, but they've changed from white to brown and their color is deepening by the day.

I assume i messed something up as i doubt that's supposed to happen and i'm new to this. so any ideas? are the seeds just bad, should i make sure to leave the light off/on, is there a better set up instead of paper towels...anything.

just doing some of my own morning research i saw someone say to not use tap water on seedlings because they don't take well to chlorine. i used water out of my faucet when i moistened the towels so i'm thinking that's what the problem was but if i'm also doing anything else wrong...please tell me. anything you can add will probably be new or helpful to me. thanks.
WaRuKaWa Reviewed by WaRuKaWa on . Complete n00b needs advice on the germination process. So I'm completely new to the entire realm of growing and I'm already having trouble at step one. seems my luck. anyway, it was bagweed and i've placed about five seeds inside of about 6 moist paper towels in my closet. i have a florescent light bulb in there (not using it for growing, i'm just describing the environment) about 4 feet away from them that i generally leave on at most times. it's been about 3 1/2 days since i set this up and since then my seeds have only browned. no sprouts or Rating: 5