Your favorite Pre-Pot seedling Techniques

[Lite]

imagine...
Somebody is giving you a 55% THC brand new GMO mega pot seed. You only get one. You know this will make you famous.

If only... but stay with me here, im trying to stress how critical success is...


What is your go-to strategy for?

I have 3 seeds popping right now, my plan is to put them in some 1.5"x1.5" starter pots in a 50/50 perlite coco mix and feed them some easy goin 6.1ph water for a bit. I never know what to do with them as far as lighting, typically i throw them on the edge of my flower tents shadow underneath the main plant while it's just a baby.

Any pro's here pop a lot of seeds and get really good at it? I'm lookin for some advice.



Here is a picture to make people more likely to respond.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

well, i wasn't going to respond, till i saw the pic.....
i float em in water till they sink, put a piece of paper towel in a small plastic container with a lid, mix up a pint of ro water with a couple of drops of bleach, put enough on the paper towel to wet it down good, drop my seeds in, close it up, and set it in the cabinet with my ballasts where it stays warm and relatively dark till they sprout, then they go into 75% perlite 25% pro mix in nursery pots, then they go into hempy buckets with the same mix

 

[macsnax]

I like the paper towel method, between 2 plates on top of the fridge. Sometimes I just use peat pellets. De-chlorinated tap water. Both work really well for me.

 

[Richard Drysift]

I prefer to germinate directly in soil. Its done in a yogurt cup on top of a heated seed mat with a ziplock bag draped lightly over the top. I mist them daily with a hand sprayer to keep the soil moist and they stay in the dark until they sprout. Then under the 400w once they break the surface. Ez breezy

 

[xtsho]

I soak in regular tap water for eight to twelve hours and then plant directly into 2.5 x 2.5 inch plastic starter pots filled with soil. Once they fill the pot up with roots they go into three gallon fabric pots of 100% coco. The reason I don't start seeds in coco is because coco has nothing in it and from past experience it's easier to provide a freshly sprouted seed with a more stable growing medium with soil. With coco you'll need to pay much more attention to nutrient levels, ph, etc... I've found that even though I grow in coco starting seeds in soil is much simpler. I let the seedlings grow until they are close to being root bound and then transplant into coco. I usually have roots poking through the fabric in three or four days.
That's my method and I'm sticking to it.

 

[theflowerman.dc]

Put them in water with few drops of humic acid, NOMORE then 12 hours as you can drown them.

After 12 hours take them out gently and put them in damp paper towel NOTTT wett,

Leave them unbothered for 48 hours and you should have reallly good germ rate,

Humic acid helps to activate the seed.

 

[Nutty sKunK]

Soaked root riot cube I found works well.

Make sure a white spectrum light is available immediately as the seedling comes through, if not I find it promotes stretching.

CLFs work great I find. Low heat, right spectrum

 

[Dr. Who]

Paper towel method - cpl drops of H2O2 in the water I dampen the PT with.

Tap root shows and into root riots.

Roots break outside the root riot. Into Solo's.

Scuffing heavy shelled strains, help the pop.

 

[vostok]

Truck arrives tips into hopper

hopper into swim pool no chlorine or bleach

(but have used that in the past for suspect TMV)

cover with bird netting

once seeds sink drain pool

spray aloe vera juice

in the morning once cracked

contractor arrives with Komatsu 61PX

back into hopper I prefer the Bobcat its fun

into seeding machine

seed machine into pucks or 4inch pots

into the YungPo Evaporator,

steamed for 36 hours at 75F

into glass house 18/6

good luck

 

[too larry]

Truck arrives tips into hopper

hopper into swim pool no chlorine or bleach

(but have used that in the past for suspect TMV)

cover with bird netting

once seeds sink drain pool

spray aloe vera juice

in the morning once cracked

contractor arrives with Komatsu 61PX

back into hopper I prefer the Bobcat its fun

into seeding machine

seed machine into pucks or 4inch pots

into steamer, steamed for 36 hours at 75F

into glass house 18/6

good luck

With a little work, you could scale this up to a usable amount of plants.

 

[vostok]

its the labor cost

goddamn ridiculous

and shareholders wanting an early dividend ...lol

no chance

 

[too larry]

I plant in soil. When going in pots, I use my regular {hot} soil mix in the bottom 1/4 of the pot. Then a 50/50 mix of hot and mild soil for the 2nd 1/4. {I add a little of the rooting powder below the seeds} Another 1/4 of mild, then put the seeds in, pointy end down. Cover with another 1/4 of mild soil. Soak well with warm, but not hot water.

When going in solo cups, since they don't stay in the cup as long, I skip the hot mix, and just do 50/50 in the bottom and mild on top.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

Truck arrives tips into hopper

hopper into swim pool no chlorine or bleach

(but have used that in the past for suspect TMV)

cover with bird netting

once seeds sink drain pool

spray aloe vera juice

in the morning once cracked

contractor arrives with Komatsu 61PX

back into hopper I prefer the Bobcat its fun

into seeding machine

seed machine into pucks or 4inch pots

into the YungPo Evaporator,

steamed for 36 hours at 75F

into glass house 18/6

good luck

this is what i see......

 

[vostok]

well, i wasn't going to respond, till i saw the pic.....

 

[SPLFreak808]

My favorite pre-pot method is trying to pick healthy seeds and planting them straight in a warm/moist & forgiving environment such as soil.

I like to use diluted aloe with young plants/transplants.

 

[Budley Doright]

My favorite pre-pot method is trying to pick healthy seeds and planting them straight in a warm/moist & forgiving environment such as soil.

I like to use diluted aloe with young plants/transplants.

Only one seed .... no picking .

 

[macsnax]

I plant in soil. When going in pots, I use my regular {hot} soil mix in the bottom 1/4 of the pot. Then a 50/50 mix of hot and mild soil for the 2nd 1/4. {I add a little of the rooting powder below the seeds} Another 1/4 of mild, then put the seeds in, pointy end down. Cover with another 1/4 of mild soil. Soak well with warm, but not hot water.

When going in solo cups, since they don't stay in the cup as long, I skip the hot mix, and just do 50/50 in the bottom and mild on top.

I do the same thing, putting the pointy end down. I seen a thread a while back where someone's seedling was curled and growing funny out of the soil. Most likely because the seed was upside down.

 

[SPLFreak808]

Only one seed .... no picking .

Lol.. Well in that case (IMHO) i would still prefer straight into the dirt, only to reduce my chances of a slow 1st week from accidentally touching the tap root.

Also, "Sometimes" if you plant a manually germinated seed too late, the shell might not have enough time under the soil to moisten and fall off and you'll have a sprout with the shell stuck to it, planting with the pointed end down can have similar effects because the shell didn't need to put up a fight through the soil.

Everyone does have different results, so of course this is just what works for me best.

Pointed end down = shell sprouts straight up
Pointed end up = shell swings through the soil (like nature, heavy side hits the ground first)

i have found that if it sprouts in a warm/moist paper towel then it will sprout in warm/moist soil if properly planted, atleast for me.

 

[too larry]

I do the same thing, putting the pointy end down. I seen a thread a while back where someone's seedling was curled and growing funny out of the soil. Most likely because the seed was upside down.

But they will come up, just about whatever you do to them.

I grew a few Poly Shunk 1's {Triangle Kush Cookies X Nightcap X Shit/Skunk} and had the chance to initiate a little brother/sister love between the best two before dispatching the male. The female was a real beauty. Thick, sticky buds, and started flowering a good week ahead of everything else.

But anyway, back to the seed planting theme. {I'm very high at the moment}. When I started my fall/winter seeds, I dropped about 10 of the Poly Shunk 1 IBL seeds. They were fresh shelled out of the bud, with no real drying time, other than the time the bud was drying. Had one sprout, and it kind of pissed me off. It just happened that I was smoking an early, early cut of PS1. {rain and rot were issues with this plant} It had lots of white seeds mixed in with the good ones. I thought about what a pain it would be to clean all those light white seeds out, so I tossed a handful into a roasting pan. About 35 of them came up. lol Transplanted into pots when they were an inch or two above soil. Just about all of them made it. And I used up the rest of the soil in the pan, and I have been killing sprouts for three weeks since I potted them. Every time I go check on them, I kill a few more sprouts.