Seed Germination strategy 2024

I have to mention that the Exotic Genetix brand/breeder had the best looking seeds!

(Exotic Genetics Prime Time) seeds were fat/round and they all 6 Cracked and Breached fast with Spring Water!

Gotta keep trying EG seeds I vaped Gouda Berry and it was really really impressive!

Next Grow is refined to:

Tap water, Rapid Rooter or Root Riot. That's it, couldn't be easier or more reliable.

I had some issues with rockwool, might have been too wet, IDK. Sowing directly in coco, peat, soil, whatever, works fine most of the time. Paper towels work, just make sure they aren't sopping wet. All methods work or no one would use them. I prefer Rapid Rooters but use whatever you want, the seeds just want moisture without being drowned, and darkness, they don't care otherwise. I've mostly used Greenpoint sees lately but have used others, including bag seeds, and never had a problem with germ rates as long as they were mature seeds and I didn't drown them.

Soak overnite in tap water. Then in wet paper towel wrung out in zip loc on top of water heater. 1-2 days.

But truth be told best plant I have this year is one I just stuck in a red solo cup with dirt/coco/perlite mix. Filled with water and drained. popped up an a couple days and took off. Granted it was skunkx mixed bag seed.

if germinating in a paper towel placed into a Ziplock, I make sure I spray about 5 squirts inside and also that the Ziplock is puffy when you seal it for plenty of air. I do get the towel quite wet.
I put mine on top of my tent under an old boot box.

Noobs here trying to germinate. This is all I get. I soaked the seed overnight and put the seed in wet towel. Nothing happened for the next days. On the fourth day the seed show signs of life. 7 days later from the day the seed is germinate is still remain the same in appearance.

What did I do wrong? Is the seed or just me? Help please....

Winter is the only time I'll use a heat mat. But root riot cubes all the way. Sometimes I soak, most times I don't, just depends on the seed I guess. I do like to add 1-2 drops of lactobacillus serum to the RO water I'll hydrate my cubes with. I think alot of folks overthink germination and that's where mistakes are made. Mother nature doesn't do any of these wild techniques and has been popping beans since the beginning of time.

In all my years I think the most successful germination comes from plants that were grown organically. They'll contain certain microbes that the mother plant hosted during her life cycle.

ancientpush said:

Noobs here trying to germinate. This is all I get. I soaked the seed overnight and put the seed in wet towel. Nothing happened for the next days. On the fourth day the seed show signs of life. 7 days later from the day the seed is germinate is still remain the same in appearance.

What did I do wrong? Is the seed or just me? Help please....

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You drowned the seed. Just plant it like nature intended........it's that simple.

ancientpush said:

Noobs here trying to germinate. This is all I get. I soaked the seed overnight and put the seed in wet towel. Nothing happened for the next days. On the fourth day the seed show signs of life. 7 days later from the day the seed is germinate is still remain the same in appearance.

What did I do wrong? Is the seed or just me? Help please....

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Yea, that paper towel is too wet, it's not damp.
Plant them as soon as they crack, don't let the tap root to wander around while other seeds still germinate.
I just find it easier to use RootRiot plugs (or not) in a small 3"x3"planter, less handling involved and higher germ rate.
Helps keep the plugs moist without babysitting.

I soak the seeds in plain water for about 12 hours, basically overnight, then straight into soil. I use small 3” pots to start.

Keep em warm and moist, but not saturated, and give them access to some oxygen, and they’ll grow. Everyone here has a slightly different method, but the successful ones all incorporate the same basic principles. Personally, I like the paper towel method, because I like to label my plants in order of vigor at transplant time. The one with the earliest/longest tap root is #1, and then #2 and so on, down to the least vigorous. Sometimes this matters in terms of pheno later on, so I track it early.

Try float tech. I've been getting pretty much 100% germination since I started doing it this way. That is the method that NASC recommends on their site.

Not sure why people make germination so complicated with seed germination strategies?
There has to be hundreds of threads on this forum with people having paper towel germination problems.
I never understood the soaking, the paper towel, heat mats, and domes........
I just plant them and within 3-4 days they sprout.
I can't remember the last time one didn't sprout.........it's been years.

MickFoster said:

I think most people make planting a seed way too complicated.......heat mats, domes, special kits, paper towels, glasses of water.
I use rapid rooters and have been for decades. I can't remember the last time a seed didn't sprout.
Soak the rooter in tap water.
Squeeze out the excess.
Stick the seed in the hole and put it in a drawer.......3-4 days later you got sprouts.

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Really? No lights? Hm....

I do the the same as you. Rapid Rooters but keep the seeds under lights for 6-8 hours. Increasing light to ten hours after sign of true leaves.

FKH said:

Really? No lights? Hm....

I do the the same as you. Rapid Rooters but keep the seeds under lights for 6-8 hours. Increasing light to ten hours after sign of true leaves.

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Unless you're using lights for heat........there's no point until the seed actually sprouts. I stick them in a drawer.