im germinating some sweet 60 day wonder in commercial 1" plugs for the first time. Why is it taking so long? I put them in a week and a half ago and their shells are barely splitting... Usually i start with the old paper towel method but i had the extra money and thought id try a different method, so i bought a highly acclaimed propagation/germination kit with 55 plugs in a dome setup heat mat the whole nine. ph + ppms are perfect im using thrive alive and foxfarm solutions. Ive heard that it takes a lil longer for the plugs to form a symbiotic relationship with the seeds to give the best possible grow medium...but wtf i coulda had lil girls by now 12 days in and the seeds are barely split... any ideas??
Did you soak them and put a little piece of thwm into the hole it whatI do with RR and mine are out in 3 days. I still use the PT B4 I put them in though.
im using these plugs that arnt rockwhool, they dont have a name on the bag, there like plugs made from soil it looks/feels like, but i dont know what they are called, i just finally had them start, they have been in there 3 days, and now i see a white tail comming out, so i think its just a matter of time before i see them, thye should penetrate the sponge and come up in 5-7 days
i was reading on the inet and it said these sponges/soil sponge things are a little harder for the seed to creat a "symbiotic" relationship with the plug, they said it takes long than regular rockwhool etc.