GroenJoe
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Well, I have looked everywhere online, and I can't really find a real answer to my problem, so I decided to finally make an account and ask you guys for your opinions/help/tips.
This is my 2nd grow, and last time I had no problems with germination, and it took about 6 days to produce a seedling. So about a month back i purchased 4 seeds from a dutch seedbank, which should have been reliable. I started germinating two of them in a glass for maybe 16 hours, then switched to a paper towel. There i believe i killed them by setting the container on my radiator. These ones never popped.
Next I decided to try with the other 2. Put them in a glass for 16 hours, then i saw that 1 popped and had a tiny root coming out, so I decided to sow both of them in my perlite/coco mix. The room was about 80F, and i put a glass on top of the spot where the seed was to keep the humidity high. The popped one end up "sprouting" somewhat, but the cotyledons never opened. After 2 weeks of waiting i decided to dig them up and examine them. The popped one seemed sick/dead. The one that didn't pop never ended up popping.
So I was pissed, and blamed it on the seedbank. I then ordered some seeds from Attitude, along with a Spongepot. I take a G13 Pineapple Express and a GHS Hawaiian Snow and put them in a glass of water. The PE sunk soon after, but the HS took 5+ hours to sink. After about 16 hours in the glass, the PE had cracked open and showed a big white center, but no extruding root. The HS was somewhat open. I then put them 24 hours in a papertowel in front of a small electronic heater with plastic wrap around the plates to keep the humidity high. I didn't notice much progress, and maybe I should have let them stay in there for some time.
I then put them in a spongepot, but that ontop of some perlite in a shot glass, poured the Spongepot germination mix on top, and put some plastic wrap for the humidity. I keep the temp around 80*F and have waited 5 days, with no visable process. So now i dug them up a little bit, and yes it was about a 1/4 inch sowed, and noticed no change in either of them.
In despiration i have once again put them in a paper towel in a last chance germination.
Is there something I'm obviously doing wrong? Anyone have any tips?
This is my 2nd grow, and last time I had no problems with germination, and it took about 6 days to produce a seedling. So about a month back i purchased 4 seeds from a dutch seedbank, which should have been reliable. I started germinating two of them in a glass for maybe 16 hours, then switched to a paper towel. There i believe i killed them by setting the container on my radiator. These ones never popped.
Next I decided to try with the other 2. Put them in a glass for 16 hours, then i saw that 1 popped and had a tiny root coming out, so I decided to sow both of them in my perlite/coco mix. The room was about 80F, and i put a glass on top of the spot where the seed was to keep the humidity high. The popped one end up "sprouting" somewhat, but the cotyledons never opened. After 2 weeks of waiting i decided to dig them up and examine them. The popped one seemed sick/dead. The one that didn't pop never ended up popping.
So I was pissed, and blamed it on the seedbank. I then ordered some seeds from Attitude, along with a Spongepot. I take a G13 Pineapple Express and a GHS Hawaiian Snow and put them in a glass of water. The PE sunk soon after, but the HS took 5+ hours to sink. After about 16 hours in the glass, the PE had cracked open and showed a big white center, but no extruding root. The HS was somewhat open. I then put them 24 hours in a papertowel in front of a small electronic heater with plastic wrap around the plates to keep the humidity high. I didn't notice much progress, and maybe I should have let them stay in there for some time.
I then put them in a spongepot, but that ontop of some perlite in a shot glass, poured the Spongepot germination mix on top, and put some plastic wrap for the humidity. I keep the temp around 80*F and have waited 5 days, with no visable process. So now i dug them up a little bit, and yes it was about a 1/4 inch sowed, and noticed no change in either of them.
In despiration i have once again put them in a paper towel in a last chance germination.
Is there something I'm obviously doing wrong? Anyone have any tips?
