What temp and light do you Germinate with?

stawawager

stawawager

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Check out my germ kit.

I put a 1/2" water in the bottom tray to conduct the heat from the heat pad set at 78F. Ambient temp is 78F.

The kit's top half has white, blue and red lights built in.

- I've never heard a blue light recommended to the best of my memory.

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stawawager said:
Check out my germ kit.

I put a 1/2" water in the bottom tray to conduct the heat from the heat pad set at 78F. Ambient temp is 78F.

The kit's top half has white, blue and red lights built in.

- I've never heard a blue light recommended to the best of my memory.

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No light you don't need it till they popped up out the dirt then I give em weaker light the heat Mat be ok till then bud
 
I use a 100 dimmable led dimmed to 20 or 30 percent
Heat mat
I have a tube heater which is good
But the light is the best as far as nodes go
Here's a pic of it in action Screenshot_20240913_215820_Chrome.jpg
 
budman111 said:
Still use an old UFO LED @25c from over 10 years ago for my seedlings in rockwool getting air root-pruned on a refrigerator wire tray before going into NFT
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So you have a little rockwool plug with roots hanging out of it's bottom and you snip them off?

If so, why not just plant them in the final substrate?
 
stawawager said:
Check out my germ kit.

I put a 1/2" water in the bottom tray to conduct the heat from the heat pad set at 78F. Ambient temp is 78F.

The kit's top half has white, blue and red lights built in.

- I've never heard a blue light recommended to the best of my memory.

Any thoughts, tips?View attachment 5425090
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78F is fine. They don't need light to germinate, but they certainly need it after. Many use T5's or a screw in fluorescent for young seedlings. I'm using an old COB LED dimmed to about 8 watts. You'll soon need a much more substantial light.
 
I like to KISS :mrgreen:

About 1/2 oz of spring water in a shot glass and a few drops of H202 !

Drop a seed in and place in large tupperware container on my kitchen table...

Just dropped five strains, when I checked them @39 hours All had tails.

Into solo cups and under Led at ~ 200 par (9000 lux).

Older picture, same idea !

Seeds soaking.jpg

Cheers
 
stawawager said:
So you have a little rockwool plug with roots hanging out of it's bottom and you snip them off?

If so, why not just plant them in the final substrate?
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I start seedlings in root riot cubes in 4" rockwool cubes and you don't manually prune the roots, they do it themselves when the root tips reach air and so new growth starts at the rootball and after a few weeks you have a massive rootball
that explodes when it eventually goes into my NFT tray rather than a few strands of roots

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MickFoster said:
I place them in a rapid rooter and stick them in a drawer........it doesn't need to be fancy........the seeds don't know the difference.
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I use a butter tub and some paper towels unless it's something finicky or landrace in which case I will germinate them in the dirt agreed as u said nothing fancy it works fine
 
chuckeye said:
I like to KISS :mrgreen:

About 1/2 oz of spring water in a shot glass and a few drops of H202 !

Drop a seed in and place in large tupperware container on my kitchen table...

Just dropped five strains, when I checked them @39 hours All had tails.

Into solo cups and under Led at ~ 200 par (9000 lux).

Older picture, same idea !

View attachment 5425369

Cheers
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I just recently read about hydrogen peroxide, Super interesting thanks for the demo!!!
 
I had 3 sprouts 1.5 inches high and I had to carefully pop off their shells. One of them kind of looks sickly after being forcibly cocooned.

I've never seen this before, anyone have an idea what would cause this?
 
budman111 said:
I start seedlings in root riot cubes in 4" rockwool cubes and you don't manually prune the roots, they do it themselves when the root tips reach air and so new growth starts at the rootball and after a few weeks you have a massive rootball
that explodes when it eventually goes into my NFT tray rather than a few strands of roots

image012.jpg
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Too cool. When do you introduce light?
 
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