What are my odds?

[grassisgreener1]

I just planted some bag seeds about 1/2 - 1 inch into the soil that was already there and just watered them with some purified water and left them. So I didnt do any pre planning or anything. Just planted each seed in the ground and let them do their thing. I think its pretty good quality soil cuz I saw a worm or two in the soil and a lot of plant life around the area. Do you think it should be okay?

[hootskers420]

To give you an idea, I planted (well I just sprinkled a bunch of seeds on the ground and watered it) about 100 seeds a few years ago. Of those 100 I would say 50 of them sprouted, of those 50 maybe 20 made it to full maturity, 10 of those were female, and of the 10 females, I harvested 7. Actually planting your seeds will give you a better germination/sprouting rate, but Id say, as a rough estimate, youll harvest maybe 10% of the seeds you plant. Of course I could be completely wrong, its all circumstantial.

[grassisgreener1]

Okay, Ill take very good care of my plants I guess and hope to god that they are female. Btw, are the males still smokeable?

[qwerty man]

Originally Posted by grassisgreener1

Okay, Ill take very good care of my plants I guess and hope to god that they are female. Btw, are the males still smokeable?

Nope, male hemp plants don't have any flowers, just leaves and pollen sacs.

[iAMtheLiquor]

I just don't see why growers (experienced or not) don't just take the time to germinate their beans using the paper towel method. I have been growing off and on as well as serious and just hobby for a couple years now. I really can not remember the last time I did not have a seed germinate for me, whether it be bag seed or purchased. Once you have a seed germinated half the battle is over.

Once you see that white tail stick out the shell, stick that white tip facing down into the earth. This almost gauruntees that you will eventually see green life come above ground in a matter of days. Aimlessly tossing seeds into the ground is just not a very systematic nor effective way to grow marijuana , whether you are serious about your grow or not. Like I said earlier, just take the beans and spend the extra 48 hrs to germinate them. This gives you basically a 100% success rate of actually seeing growth above ground.

There is nothing more simple in the process of growing marijuana than germinating any seed.