MichiganMedGrower
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I don't cull runts that are healthy either. They have been some of the best pot.
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Resinhound
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Sigh... Lol, ok.
DemonTrich
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Who cares how I do it. Some wipe their ass with their left hand, some with the right, some have a a shower head and a gold crapper, or a Butler to do the dirty work. All I know is it works for me and 100% germ rate.
SPLFreak808
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I think your talking about naturally stubborn seeds while resin might be talking about runts from a deficient mother ect. One has a greatly reduced shelf life over the other and runtz can come from shorted immature beans
MichiganMedGrower
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Yes I did mean healthy but slow or temporarily stunted seedlings from good seeds. I see the point now I think.
MichiganMedGrower
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Which part are you LOL ing about Resin?
I have seen the winter seed thing on Natural Geographic.
Lucky Luke
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Normal in nature for seeds to be in the ground dormant for years until the right environment makes them germinate.
Mother Nature is clever.
Resinhound
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I'm lol'ing because you totally missed my point. And it gets tiring trying to explain to people that it Shouldn't be hard to germinate a seed.It SHOULDN'T take a special process and it doesn't. It's what they are designed to do. You would think with plant counts being what they are people would see the value of only germinating the strongest most viable seeds...
But whatever floats your boat, if you deem it necessary to take a simple process that's been perfected for millenia and complicate it then so be it, doesn't really matter to me either way.
In any case I'm done with this discussion as there is really nothing more that can be usefully added here that hasn't already.
MichiganMedGrower
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I already stated @Resinhound that your advice was the best.
Just sharing what I do and why. And I asked a question? As I thought I may have missed your point.
And I stay with the notion that there is nothing natural about indoor growing. it is a hobby type of activity. And there are many enjoyable ways to do things that may be different than others. And they all seem to work.
Just sharing what I do and why. And I asked a question? As I thought I may have missed your point.
And I stay with the notion that there is nothing natural about indoor growing. it is a hobby type of activity. And there are many enjoyable ways to do things that may be different than others. And they all seem to work.
Olive Drab Green
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I suffer from severe PTSD and insomnia. What's there to explain?
MichiganMedGrower
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Sorry to hear that man. I suffer that way too. But likely for different reasons.
Uberknot
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LMFAO!
Uberknot
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Well I'll be Damned.....there is a study..
Effects of Low-Power Microwave Fields on Seed Germination and Growth Rate Lakshmappa Ragha1 , Seema Mishra2 , V. Ramachandran2 , Manmohan Singh Bhatia3 1 Electronics and Telecommunication Department, SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, Navi-Mumbai, India; 2 Bio Technology Department, SIES Indian Institute of Environment Management, Nerul, Navi-Mumbai, India; 3 Laser and Plasma Technology Divison, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Received January 2nd, 2011; revised March 14th, 2011; accepted April 22nd, 2011. ABSTRACT Experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of low power microwave radiation on germination and growth rate in seeds. In the present paper, the bioeffects of low power (non-thermal intensity) microwave modulated with 1 KHz square wave have been studied. Experiments were performed in X-band frequencies using klystron based microwave test bench. Microwave parameters like frequency, power, exposure time and power density were varied while irradiating seed samples to study their influence on germination. The seed samples used for the experiment included wheat (Triticum aestivum), bengal gram (Cicer arietinum), green gram (Vigna radiate) and moth bean (Vigna Aconitifolia). Seed germination %, plant height, root length and dry matter % (biomass %) were recorded and compared with control seeds. The effects of different treatments were found to be stimulating the germination and seedling vigour of plants especially in power and exposure time treatments while increase in frequency and power density has reduced the seed germination and seedling vigour. The effect also varied with the nature of seeds.
http://file.scirp.org/pdf/JEMAA20110500005_25633481.pdf
3. Results and Discussion The results discussed in this section are the effects of various parameters like exposure time, power, power density and frequency on seed germination and growth rate. Analysis is based on the results shown in Figures 1-4, Table 5 and Table 6. In case of wheat sample with increase in microwave frequency germination is seem to improve upto 60% whereas no germination observed at lower frequencies including control. High frequency stimulates seed germination for wheat. Similar but more pronounced effect noticed in the case of bengal gram. Seed germination is seem to improve even at lower frequencies as compared to control. With increase in frequency seed germination increases as compared to control. The extent of improvement is marginal and not as pronounced as in the case of wheat and bengal gram. Similar trend is noticed in the case of moth bean. Figure 1. Seed germination Vs Frequency. In case of wheat sample higher power intensely affects germination. With increase in microwave power germination is hampered and steadily decreases. Similar trend is noticed in case of green gram and moth bean. In case of bengal gram with increase in microwave power germination on the other hand improves. But at the highest power used no germination observed. Figure 2. Seed germination Vs Power. Decrease in seed germination is observed in all seed samples with increase in exposure time from 12 minute to 28 minute as compared to control group (Table 3). Decrease in seed germination is observed in almost all seed samples with decrease in power density from d1-d5 (Table 4) as compared to control group. But variation in power density has less influence on germination in case of green gram sample.
Effects of Low-Power Microwave Fields on Seed Germination and Growth Rate Lakshmappa Ragha1 , Seema Mishra2 , V. Ramachandran2 , Manmohan Singh Bhatia3 1 Electronics and Telecommunication Department, SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, Navi-Mumbai, India; 2 Bio Technology Department, SIES Indian Institute of Environment Management, Nerul, Navi-Mumbai, India; 3 Laser and Plasma Technology Divison, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Received January 2nd, 2011; revised March 14th, 2011; accepted April 22nd, 2011. ABSTRACT Experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of low power microwave radiation on germination and growth rate in seeds. In the present paper, the bioeffects of low power (non-thermal intensity) microwave modulated with 1 KHz square wave have been studied. Experiments were performed in X-band frequencies using klystron based microwave test bench. Microwave parameters like frequency, power, exposure time and power density were varied while irradiating seed samples to study their influence on germination. The seed samples used for the experiment included wheat (Triticum aestivum), bengal gram (Cicer arietinum), green gram (Vigna radiate) and moth bean (Vigna Aconitifolia). Seed germination %, plant height, root length and dry matter % (biomass %) were recorded and compared with control seeds. The effects of different treatments were found to be stimulating the germination and seedling vigour of plants especially in power and exposure time treatments while increase in frequency and power density has reduced the seed germination and seedling vigour. The effect also varied with the nature of seeds.
http://file.scirp.org/pdf/JEMAA20110500005_25633481.pdf
3. Results and Discussion The results discussed in this section are the effects of various parameters like exposure time, power, power density and frequency on seed germination and growth rate. Analysis is based on the results shown in Figures 1-4, Table 5 and Table 6. In case of wheat sample with increase in microwave frequency germination is seem to improve upto 60% whereas no germination observed at lower frequencies including control. High frequency stimulates seed germination for wheat. Similar but more pronounced effect noticed in the case of bengal gram. Seed germination is seem to improve even at lower frequencies as compared to control. With increase in frequency seed germination increases as compared to control. The extent of improvement is marginal and not as pronounced as in the case of wheat and bengal gram. Similar trend is noticed in the case of moth bean. Figure 1. Seed germination Vs Frequency. In case of wheat sample higher power intensely affects germination. With increase in microwave power germination is hampered and steadily decreases. Similar trend is noticed in case of green gram and moth bean. In case of bengal gram with increase in microwave power germination on the other hand improves. But at the highest power used no germination observed. Figure 2. Seed germination Vs Power. Decrease in seed germination is observed in all seed samples with increase in exposure time from 12 minute to 28 minute as compared to control group (Table 3). Decrease in seed germination is observed in almost all seed samples with decrease in power density from d1-d5 (Table 4) as compared to control group. But variation in power density has less influence on germination in case of green gram sample.
SPLFreak808
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Man its been heated lately, everyone needs to chill lol.
I see what @VTMi'kmaq read. @Olive Drab Green im sure you didnt mean to sound like a smart ass
"What's there to explain?" <this part should have been said a few post before this, "I suffer from severe PTSD and insomnia."
Just a simple misunderstanding between you two. Its easy to read shit the wrong way on an international forum and when it happens with two people who dont take shit from nobody it gets heated af lol.
I see what @VTMi'kmaq read. @Olive Drab Green im sure you didnt mean to sound like a smart ass
"What's there to explain?" <this part should have been said a few post before this, "I suffer from severe PTSD and insomnia."
Just a simple misunderstanding between you two. Its easy to read shit the wrong way on an international forum and when it happens with two people who dont take shit from nobody it gets heated af lol.
mr sunshine
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lol