undercovergrow
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not one bean popped.
Yikes! I am very sorry to hear that. What a heart breaker. I feel for you... So what are you going to do? What do you think went wrong?not one bean popped.
LOL it makes sense to me!LOL... Never thought of keeping a plant out of my garden because it wasn't pretty enough. I'll have to revise my criteria to: High Potency, Good Yield, Shorter Flowering Time and Pretty...
My guess would be humidity. I like to keep the temp up around 80 like Rory does but I also watch my humidity and like to keep it around 65% +/- 5%. I have had stuff sprout and die because the air was too dry.i'm not sure. as the weather is getting warmer, i wonder if that affected anything? i normally soak my beans for 24 hours in a maxicrop solution and then right to soil. as a newb, the winter was my first season and i only had one damp off on me and one die a few days after sprouting because i forgot to water it. so i'm at a loss for why these nine didn't pop. i have been busy so i was only watering them a bit in the morning and the soil did get dried out a bit...could that have done it??
i'm going to try again with blood orange, sunshine daydream, cheese quake, space bomb, sugar punch, and caramel candy kush, as well as chocolate rain...but the others that i tried too (blue dream, casey jones x green manalishi) aren't getting another chance this time.
just had big harvest (six done at the same time and wasn't expecting that! well, one started throwing nanners--my first experience with that--so she got chopped five days early) so them not popping is a bummer, but perhaps i should have waited until i could have paid them more attention
i don't think you'll have a problem with your girls at all with the breaker. i think it takes a lot more screwing up with lights for it to happen... but what do i know? pics of the twin when you get a chance, please. would love to see her!
ill be jeered and booed for this but here it goes..
pop your beans in really wet pro mix..keep it wet and above 70degrees,below 90degrees..thats all.there is to it..you get the added benifits of not disturbing the taproot planting it..the seed knows what it needs to do..i had a very wise old grower tell me pop beans in the same container youre gonba chop from...while not every bean pops,i have 75 to 80 percent come up and THRIVE,unless the beans are old or come from an unknown source..about a 3rd of my blue hawaiians didnt sprout,but they were years old and not stored properly..hope this helps.
I would say it is a matter of personal preference. I have a really good germination rate using the paper towel method, but I end up with some inferior stock. It is also a delicate and tedious task in transplanting the sprouts. They are very fragile and vulnerable. It is almost like performing surgery... At the moment I have a flower room that I am trying to fill so I am pushing things... I think the better and more natural way is to do what Rory says. Your germination rate may be a bit lower but you will have a better chance at good strong healthy plants. I would say watch your temp and humidity, and dome them if you need to keep them warm and moist.KeizerSoze i was thinking this time to maybe use the dome thing i use for clones--would that help? and to put the beans in root riot plugs (never done w/ beans)...maybe that would help them to not dry out. thoughts?
How incredibly male of me... What is the point in having a garden if it isn't going to be pretty???LOL it makes sense to me!
you got it! a garden should be pretty -- especially a garden of flowers we all love.How incredibly male of me... What is the point in having a garden if it isn't going to be pretty???
BTW, your avatar is really hot.
rory i'm sorry i totally missed this post...in fact, i think keizer had said in an earlier post to listen to your advice and i remember wondering what did i miss at that time!? lol smoking while trying to follow this new layout can be a bit confusing at times! i'm taking the advice, rory. my second space bomb just popped above ground as well as my blood orange (both second tries) but my second try on the others (four others!)-including my sugar punch-didn't work. major bummer on the two out of five beans of my SP not popping! only three left...gonna probably need to order another pack just so i have some since i was planning on running just one bean to learn the plant and then pop all four later.ill be jeered and booed for this but here it goes..
pop your beans in really wet pro mix..keep it wet and above 70degrees,below 90degrees..thats all.there is to it..you get the added benifits of not disturbing the taproot planting it..the seed knows what it needs to do..i had a very wise old grower tell me pop beans in the same container youre gonba chop from...while not every bean pops,i have 75 to 80 percent come up and THRIVE,unless the beans are old or come from an unknown source..about a 3rd of my blue hawaiians didnt sprout,but they were years old and not stored properly..hope this helps.
I would say it is a matter of personal preference. I have a really good germination rate using the paper towel method, but I end up with some inferior stock. It is also a delicate and tedious task in transplanting the sprouts. They are very fragile and vulnerable. It is almost like performing surgery... At the moment I have a flower room that I am trying to fill so I am pushing things... I think the better and more natural way is to do what Rory says. Your germination rate may be a bit lower but you will have a better chance at good strong healthy plants. I would say watch your temp and humidity, and dome them if you need to keep them warm and moist.
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100% agree , I also have my method of germination although not the paper towel method but similar 2 damp sponges seeds between and place in small plastic container place on my computer router box , and as you said it becomes a delicate task transplanting, I have found that sugar punch seeds germinate quick ,
I germinated 3 SP seeds about 3 1/2 weeks ago 24 hours the roots were just peeking out of the seeds on all 3 ,about 9 hours later the roots were 3/4 to 1 inch long to my surprise , one of them while transplanting got imbedded in to the sponge never happen before ,but then again never had a strain root grow so quick , most of the time I transplant when the root is 3/8' - 1/2'',
So here is what happened , and my next round of SP seeds will go rite in to soil