repoocbd
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Hey everyone I am new to growing and the forum. I have recently started dabbling with the idea of growing my own plants and am going the total amateur route, but still have a few questions about whether this particular plant is somehow deformed or sick. First I just used bag seeds. One is from an unknown bag and that is the plant that is really having problems. I have two other plants that I used seeds from a really good batch I came across they are growing great, they both have the two clover leaves and the two serrated leaves and are growing with sturdy stems and about 2 inches a day so far. The one seed that come from an unknown bag (I dug it out of the ashtray...) I had germinated in a moist piece of cotton cloth and the cloth did start to smell a little like mildew as it sat there wet for 3 days. Anyhow the seed germinated very well after 3 days and had a sprout over a quarter inch long. Oddly I had two other seeds in there that did not seem to do anything at all. So I took the one that germinated put in in the soil and being a total newbie I did it upside down. I put the sprout side down and burried it. Well the next day I looked at more sites about how to grow and saw I did it backwards so I carefully removed the soil on top and looked at it and it already started growing upward so I replaced the soil and left it.
When it came up it was bent over with its baby leaves closed together. In a day it had straitened up toward the light (2 florescent bulbs designed for indoor horticulture) that was about 6 inches above the clay pot I have it in. Once it straitened out I saw it only had the two clover leaves and not the serrated ones. I thought that was odd, but hey what do I know right? So I waited a few days in the meanwhile I found the good seeds and planted one directly in the soil in a plastic pot and the other I germinated in a paper towel this time and planted it in a clay pot. Both good seeds came up at the same time and both had 4 leaves (2 clover like and 2 serrated). As I waited on the first plant too develop it continued to grow strait up for the first few days to a height of about 3 inches. But now it was stopped growing at all and it is not developing its other leaves it still has just the two clovers like leaves. My two good seeds have far surpassed this one in height and leaf size. The plant in question has a good color the leaves are a medium shade of green and the stem a bit darker with the fuzzy fur looking stuff on it.
So I wonder is there something wrong with the seed like maybe it's DNA was messed up or the mildew on the cloth damaged it genetically some how? Should I throw this seed out and try a new one? I would like to keep the plant if at all possible that way I could have two strains to breed, provided they did not all come out as male or female lol. And yes I know it is not very rewarding to breed two generic strains, but I am a newbie and I want to try different things with out spending allot of money on it. Oh yeah the soil I am using is not the best for the job (Miracle Grow Organic Mix potting Soil), but the other two plants are doing great so it can't be all bad. I am not watering much only about a cup of water a week in all per plant. And I am not using any fertilizers yet, since I was told the soil it is in already has slow release fertilizer in it. The only difference between this plant and my best plant is the origin of the seed and the medium I used to germinate it. But that one is twice the height and has its 4 starter leaves and it started 3 days later PLEASE LET IT BE A FEMALE J
When it came up it was bent over with its baby leaves closed together. In a day it had straitened up toward the light (2 florescent bulbs designed for indoor horticulture) that was about 6 inches above the clay pot I have it in. Once it straitened out I saw it only had the two clover leaves and not the serrated ones. I thought that was odd, but hey what do I know right? So I waited a few days in the meanwhile I found the good seeds and planted one directly in the soil in a plastic pot and the other I germinated in a paper towel this time and planted it in a clay pot. Both good seeds came up at the same time and both had 4 leaves (2 clover like and 2 serrated). As I waited on the first plant too develop it continued to grow strait up for the first few days to a height of about 3 inches. But now it was stopped growing at all and it is not developing its other leaves it still has just the two clovers like leaves. My two good seeds have far surpassed this one in height and leaf size. The plant in question has a good color the leaves are a medium shade of green and the stem a bit darker with the fuzzy fur looking stuff on it.
So I wonder is there something wrong with the seed like maybe it's DNA was messed up or the mildew on the cloth damaged it genetically some how? Should I throw this seed out and try a new one? I would like to keep the plant if at all possible that way I could have two strains to breed, provided they did not all come out as male or female lol. And yes I know it is not very rewarding to breed two generic strains, but I am a newbie and I want to try different things with out spending allot of money on it. Oh yeah the soil I am using is not the best for the job (Miracle Grow Organic Mix potting Soil), but the other two plants are doing great so it can't be all bad. I am not watering much only about a cup of water a week in all per plant. And I am not using any fertilizers yet, since I was told the soil it is in already has slow release fertilizer in it. The only difference between this plant and my best plant is the origin of the seed and the medium I used to germinate it. But that one is twice the height and has its 4 starter leaves and it started 3 days later PLEASE LET IT BE A FEMALE J