To soak or not to soak

Oldreefer

Oldreefer

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Guess I'm lucky to be in a farming community where we just drop a seed. Cotton, corn, soybeans and cannabis. Never understood the need to do anything else. 30 years ago, we planted cannabis among corn and it got the same care (or lack of it) as other crops. There have been absolutely no improvements that improves any phase of it.
 
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Gorillaglue4u

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Oldreefer said:
Guess I'm lucky to be in a farming community where we just drop a seed. Cotton, corn, soybeans and cannabis. Never understood the need to do anything else. 30 years ago, we planted cannabis among corn and it got the same care (or lack of it) as other crops. There have been absolutely no improvements that improves any phase of it.
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Ill give it a go next ones i drop in a couple weeks.
 
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Alabamasf

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I grew up on a farm and we always just put seeds in the ground. Sounds straight forward. So when it came to my first grow, i did the same. Seed in soil in solo cup, water, wait. Worked fine. I thought it was kinda goofy hearing about people doing all this paper towel in a bag stuff. I thought it was dumb...... until i got some new soil as usual for my next set of seeds, dropped them in and lost all but 1 to these little clear worms that ate them as they cracked to sprout. Apparently i got a bad bag of soil. It was a first. So now to keep that from happening again im doing the paper towel deal. All soil can be contaminated, ya never know.
 
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P10p

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I've started soaking until I have a good tap root then right into soil. Saves mucking about and wasting unnessecary paper towel.
 
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teddy bonkers

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Alabamasf said:
I grew up on a farm and we always just put seeds in the ground. Sounds straight forward. So when it came to my first grow, i did the same. Seed in soil in solo cup, water, wait. Worked fine. I thought it was kinda goofy hearing about people doing all this paper towel in a bag stuff. I thought it was dumb...... until i got some new soil as usual for my next set of seeds, dropped them in and lost all but 1 to these little clear worms that ate them as they cracked to sprout. Apparently i got a bad bag of soil. It was a first. So now to keep that from happening again im doing the paper towel deal. All soil can be contaminated, ya never know.
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some soil can also be to "hot' for seeds.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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99.99999999999999999999999999999999999% success rate planting directly in soil with no soaking or paper towel. I take that back. I recently tried to germinate some really old seeds so I soaked them before planting. All sunk to the bottom but none germinated. That proves that just because a seed sinks to the bottom doesn't mean that it's a good seed as many people seem to think.
 
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Triple R

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Make it easy on the plants. The more times you have to move them the greater chance you have of killing them I plant directly in the pots they going to finish in rarely have a problem
 
Oldreefer

Oldreefer

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xtsho said:
99.99999999999999999999999999999999999% success rate planting directly in soil with no soaking or paper towel. I take that back. I recently tried to germinate some really old seeds so I soaked them before planting. All sunk to the bottom but none germinated. That proves that just because a seed sinks to the bottom doesn't mean that it's a good seed as many people seem to think.
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Exactly what I've had happen. I still have some of Stone's Dragon series that actually germed at 6-7 years old but my recent attempts at 9 years old failed.
Simple methods are often overlooked as some have a need to fondle seeds in complex ways which usually ends in complex problems.
 
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