I have one seed sprouted that had its shell stuck to its cotyledons so it is bent over and I'm not sure how it will do. I also have one seed that cracked and I planted in soil and three more seeds germinating in a glass of water. Here is the seedling that's growing with some peppers. Here is where they will be growing with a bunch of pepper plants and one cherry tomatoe plant
The shell stuck to the plant is no big deal. Nature will make it fall off or in a few days you can carefully remove it. Good luck on the other seeds hopefully they crack soon. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that one light will not do it. Plus you want that light as close as you can get it like 2in away. Otherwise you will have tons of stretching in the new plants. You don't want a foot tall plant with 2 sets of leaves.
The leaves look blackish. I think something else is going on other than the shell getting stuck. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Haven't really been counting how long. A couple days germinating and its only 2 day since it come out of the soil. I was hoping it would stretch for the light and fix itself but the cotyledons actually closed together more so I think it killed itself. I'll leave it for another day but I have three more seeds germinating so it's not a big deal. I've also found out these seed are really hard to crack. I had one germinating for almost a week then decided to crack it myself and two day later it had a big taproot sticking out
I had it in paper towel for about a week with some other seeds that weren't germinating so I just gave them all a little squeeze until I felt it move a little bit then put them back in paper towel for a couple days It has only been in the dirt about a day
Here is another pic of the seedling and I wanted to show my seeds that weren't cracking so I decided to give them a little squeeze last night and they both have tap roots starting
It's been about another 24 hours so I'll put up another pic. The plant lost about three hours of light this morning because the power went out and the timer got reset.
The lights were only on for a couple of hours today because my timer was messed up. Turned them back on and I guess will leave them on until I go to sleep