how to germinate

[NightProwler]

can anyone please tell me the best, eaisest most effective way to prepare seeds to planted? all i know is it has something to do with wet paper towls.

NightProwler Reviewed by NightProwler on 07-28-2005. how to germinate can anyone please tell me the best, eaisest most effective way to prepare seeds to planted? all i know is it has something to do with wet paper towls. Rating: 5

[sir smokes alot]

i think you would get more replies in the begginers grow thread or is that foruem i get them mixed up

[STDzRus]

This works. I've never grown past sprouts but I had about 25 female sprouts by doing this.


Get a starter growing set for regular plants, those little tiny planters and put a screen over the top, a dark window screen is the best.

WATER THEM LIKE CRAZY, try to make your own little irrigation drip system

I used a Milk Gallon and a hose from fishtank waterpump and put a small ball berring <sp?> in the tube and it dripped slowly.

Within a week I had about 15 sprouts and after three weeks I had 25 total sprouts ranging from less than one inch and the largest being 4 inches.

Regardless to say they died.

[partyguy420]

i heard that u put them in water for 24 hours???? but after that u cant touch them with your hands

[stankystank]

get damp papaer towels get someting or somewhere to put them in i use a old video game case i dont play anymore put the towels in the case or whatever keep them in a dark place but it has to be warm check it everyday because mold will kill the seedlings they take from 2days to a week to sprout sometimes longer then wear a rubber glove when you take it out so as not to contaminate the seedlings

[partyguy420]

^^^^^^ yea... do that....

[sir smokes alot]

partyguy your signature.....is weird but here is a germanation way i think

Germinate seeds in sterile soil (for planting outdoors) or a hydroponic medium of rockwool or vermiculite. DO NOT (!) use a Jiffy cube #7 to germinate seeds. Informal tests and experience show these peat cubes do not work well and stunt the plants growth. Planting in vermiculite gives the seedling so much oxygen, and are so easy for roots to grow in, that the plants look large 1 week after germination!

Keep them moist at all times, by placing seeds in vermiculite filled 16oz cups with holes in the bottom, placed in a tray of weak nutrient solution, high in P. Rockwool cubes also work extremely well. When the seed sprouts, place the rockwool cubes into larger rockwool cubes. No repotting or transplanting, and no soil mixing!

You can germinate seeds in a paper towel. This method is tricky; it is easy to ruin roots if they dry out, or are planted too late after germinating. Paper towels dry out REAL FAST! Place paper towel in a bowl, saturated with weak nutrient solution (not too much!), and cover with plastic wrap to keep it from drying out. Put bowl in a warm area; top of the gas stove, water heater closet, or above warm lamps. Cover with black paper to keep out light. Check every 12 hours and plant germinated seeds with the grow tip up (if possible) in a growing medium as soon as the root coming out of the seed is 1/16" or longer. Use tweezers, and don not touch the root tip.

Transplant as little as possible by germinating in the same container you intend to grow the plant in for a significant period of time. Just plant in vermiculite or rockwool. You will be amazed at the results! 90% germination is common with this method, as compared to 50% or less with Jiffy Cubes. (Your milage may vary
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