germinating seeds

Lookin for a few ideas on seed germination. Thanks in advance.

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yeah man everyone posts questions about this. Ive even done it myself, if you look around you will find the many diffrent ways to do it along with peoples responses on how it all worked for them...alot of veterans and knowledgeable people, Spanish fly being one, just puts there seeds in the soil and waters it. I believe he does this if i remember right. I myself have figured out that if i take 2 paper towels and water the shit out of them on a plate, enough water so that after 5 minutes of soaking in i have to dump the excess off, then i put my seeds down and press a dry paper towel on top of them and put them in a zip lock bag in my drawer i get success 100% of the time, provided the seeds are viable...with good seeds you will see the taproot in no more then 24 hours...other seeds can take up to 3 days...but to be honest i just put 8 seeds in cups last night without the paper towel method. i figured i would try something diffrent this time...good luck

i use the wet paper towel method also ,

but , you can put in a cup of water also , or do direct seeding ,

the fly is right my man , ...

Read up, tripanic. Then come ask questions when you can't find the answers elsewhere on the board. The search function is very helpful, but is sometimes finicky so I use an advanced search command via Google (replace "BLANK" on the search page with whatever you want to find) and the it will be a more thorough search than RIT's search function. Enjoy and get to reading.

Keep It Simple. Put each $10 seed in its very own 10-25 cent home. Jiffy pellets, off-brand pellet, Oasis cube, Root Riot cube, STG cube, or old school soil in a seedling cell. Pick one. Most Hydro stores sell all the mentioned mediums.... but they dont sell special paper towels. When it sprouts, let it grow some roots, then transplant the "starter home" into a larger "home".

The paper towel technique has its place. Hard to germinate species {marijuana is not one I would characterize as hard to germinate} ... or old seed. Typically, in such a scheme special treatments like GA3 might be involved. OR maybe an experienced grower has a good eye for sexing, based on the appearance of the sprouted seed. Either way... none of the above scenarios involve you right now. an experienced grower would also be more careful, and skilled at extracting the seedling from the paper towel without stressing or killing it.

paper towels, jiffy pellets, bla bla.... the most important thing to remember besides oxygen and nutes is 81F...if it goes well at 73F it will be even better at 81F...some Afghan strains are a little higher. Go to petsmart and get the small $15-20 heat mat (sorry but the average hydroponic heat mat is a piece of shit) and a hydrofarm thermostat for around $30. Sensi, Greenhouse, Sweet...100% rate. Privada..not so much.

2 Most Popular Methods:

1) Get a small glass (shot glass works fine), and fill it up with clean water. Put the seed(s) in there. Wait about 1-2 days and if the seed is floating on the top try to poke it gently, and it should sink. Once it sinks give it a couple more days and the root should be out.

2) Get about 2 pieces of paper towel and wet them. Put the seed in the middle of them. Check up daily to make sure paper towel stays moist. In about 1-8 days you should see root coming out.