Germination Help

Discussion in 'First Time Marijuana Growers' started by airhead888, Feb 10, 2011.

  1. #1 airhead888, Feb 10, 2011
    Hey guys so this is my first time ever posting in grasscity and I'm planning on doing a journal of my grow after I get it growin.
    So I'm stuck in the germination stage and I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.

    To start it off I left it in a cup of distilled water for about a day and a half then transferred it over to my rockwool. When I transferred it there were no signs of the root coming out or anything. So once inside my rockwool stuck inside some hydroton already in the reservoir. I let it sit and sit and sit checking up periodically.
    To keep things short its not growing really fast at all, its already been almost 2 weeks and the root is still super tiny curling along the underside of the seed.
    Am I doing something wrong?
    my setup is in a growbox at around room temp of 75 and I've got some lights on to keep warm and fans for vents.
     
  2. #2 KyungYi, Feb 10, 2011
    Hey man.
    What kind of lights are u using? Also it sounds like you got a hydro setup. where is your water level at if you are in fa t using a hydro system.
    I prefer the papertowl method myself. That way you can see the tap root sprout.

    -Kyung Yi
     
  3. #3 MicroGrower420, Feb 10, 2011
    Paper towels & ziplock bag for the win.
     
  4. #4 airhead888, Feb 10, 2011
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    thanks for the replies,

    should i just take it out and go with the paper towel? i already know that the root came out, but i'm not sure how to put the seed back into the rock wool when the roots too long, i dont want to damage it :/

    i'm using good o cfl's

    and my seed sits right on top of the water level
     
  5. #5 Lay Low, Feb 10, 2011
    Viable seeds usually sink to the bottom of the cup after a day. That lets you know that they have absorbed water (which is the point of having it in a cup of water). It's possible you just got some bad seeds.

    I also use the soak method and I have near 100% germination rate, but I don't use rockwool so there might be something different about that medium that I can't help you with.

    Why even grow from seeds though if you live in LA? I would just get clones if I lived in Cali.

    Good luck either way.
     
  6. #6 airhead888, Feb 10, 2011
    Yeah my seed sank to the bottom of the cup after a day, then i transferred it straight to the rockwool. The tap root is slowly coming out, but really slowly. Does that also mean its a bad seed?

    Thanks though
     

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