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  1. #1 timmy, Jan 17, 2005
    wel i was answering a guys questions and i see so many people asking it that im gonna make a thread for this so i hope this helps you guys. these are the ways i use to germinate and they have always worked if my seed is good. so hope this helps.



    MAKE SURE YOUR SEED IS GOOD! i had lots of problems with that when i was starting out. brown seeds are usually ripe ones. black are usually dead. and greenish or or whitish are usually immature. this isnt true in all cases so try your seeds anyway. and one seeds per pot! and remember to be very carful when handling the germinated seed!


    WAY 1.....ok, the easiest way and the way that has the least room for human error is to practically drench a plastic cup filled with soil with no added ferts and then let sit for 15 minutes, remember to drill lots of holes. this will get all of the soil wet. then plop a seed in there and put that stretchy clear food wrap stuff over the top of the cup and put a rubber band around it, make sure it is tight. then keep in a pretty warm environment, NOT HOT!( i am currently using this method to germinate some seeds and it is around 32 degrees where i am doing it and they are doing just fine so remember heat isnt that huge of a deal.) then keep an eye on the cup and when the little girl(we all hope) pops her head up then take the food wrap off and stick him under a light.


    WAY 2... plop your seeds in a cup of room temperature distilled water and put a drop of super thrive in it. put it under a cover or somthing so no light will disturb the seeds. dont poke them or anything just let them sit. the tap roots should pop out within a week and then you can plant them with the tap root pointing down. put the food wrap stuff over it with a rubber band until she pops her head up and then stick her under a light.



    WAY 3 get a tupperwear container and some paper towels. get the paper towels wet but not dripping wet. put one in the tupper wear container and then put your seeds on top of it. then put the next two layers over the seeds. find a place with a little heat, a computer monitor or a fridge engine. just make sure its not hot. warm is better. then cover the tupperwear container so no light will bother the seeds. when the tap root pops out then plant with the tap root pointed down in the plastic cups and do the same thing with the food wrap until she pops out


    i have tried all of these ways and if i have good seed then i get about a 90% chance of hatching the little buggers . i think the chances go slightly down in the tupperwear container for me. water and plain old soil seems to get em almost every time. plus for me superthrive has made everything happen a little faster and hasnt made my plants funky or anything like that. remember only a little bit of superthrive works great, too much and you could have problems.

    hope this helps. hope your seeds germinate and you get LOTS of ladies!
     
  2. #2 stondIdle, May 11, 2009
    personally to me the easiest way to sprot seeds is:
    Fill water into a coverable container and drop your seeds in. Let it soak for a day, away from light. On the second day, shake up the container and throw out all the floaties. Floaties are dead one and all the good seeds should be on the bottom. Drain out all the water. Container doesn't have to be completly drain. Every day, rise the seeds with fresh water and drain. The roots should sprot on the 3rd or 4th day. You could keep going until the root came out about and inch then plant it in soil.

    Timmy, for you 3rd method. I think you should use toliet paper instead of paper towel. The fibers in the toliet paper is much lighter and easier on the sproting.
     
  3. #3 crystal_palace, May 11, 2009
    my so far fool proof method is to put seeds in a cup of water in a dark place for 24hours. I add a couple drops of kelp fertilizer too. After about 18 to 24 hours seeds should have plumped up and absorbed all the water they can. They should sink. After 24hours, i put into a cup of "Roots Organic" soil and water it pretty well. Cover with plastic or sara-wrap or something to make a "mini-greenhouse" Keep room temp of slightly above and once they sprout up and are at all visible, take off the cover and put under a light. Ive never tried the soaking until the roots sprout method....
     
  4. #4 gman101, May 11, 2009
    Germination: This is the almost magical process in which a seed changes from a dormant state to a living and hopefully thriving plant.

    While there are many opinions and individual methods for seed germination, they all have common elements as any reader can see. These are water, temperature and oxygen.

    While I agree with most of the methods I have read about here at the "City", my particular method is very simplistic. What i do is to take a single paper towel, lightly moistened. (The moistened towel helps keep the seeds in place) I then fold the paper towel in half and place the seeds to be germinated directly along the fold, leaving at least 1/2" between the seeds and 1" from the edge of the paper towel. I then fold the paper towel in half 2 times, opposite the original fold, and place it in a cup with 1/2 to 1" of water in the bottom with the fold up, which wicks water into the towel keeping it nice and wet. I place the cup in a cabinet or other dark area and my seeds generally germinate within a period of 12 to 48 hours.

    The only difference with my rather simple process (A folded paper towel in a cup with water), and others is that I can easily view the progress without moving, lifting, or unfolding the towel as the fold is up and the paper towel is rather transparent when wet. This reduces the chance to damage the little things by excess handling while allowing me to see if they have germinated.

    Then, my preference is to plant the babies once the tap root is visible, and not to wait for it to reach a specific length. My opinion is that the longer the tap root the greater chance of damaging it there is, and as mentioned here there are little hair roots that can easily become attached to the paper towel.

    I am certainly not an expert grower, but have done it more that a few times over the years.

    Stay balanced!
     

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