best medium for seeds

What is the best medium to start seedlings in?

jiffy cubes! Wouldnt use anything else.

Once cracked - standard potting compost with 20% perlite.

i use jiffy seedling starter with perlite in a party cup. and then transplant when shes got a good root system in that

I've used miricale grow seed starting mix from walmart but now I just use pro mix all the way may not be the best but it works just fine and I got plenty of it I just use pro mix with the mycorrizae added great for roots and a bail goes a little ways be good for a 4x4-4x8 room better buy two to be safe if bigger than 4x4

For hydro or dirt? For hydro....
Small RW cubes, keep them watered to 15-20g wet and they work perfect. RRs also do the job.

Black Gold Seedling starting mix seems to work well

What's your germ success using those? Was looking at the jiffy cubes to germ in. Bout to start a grow. The final intended medium is coco.

littlegiant said:

jiffy cubes! Wouldnt use anything else.

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someone told me worm casting innoculates roots and is the best thing to germinate with. it will help the plant naturally protect itself vs diseases and pests more than normal is what i imagine.

I have started seeds in Jiffy pucks, and in solo cups of Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil, and or Roots organic soil. I have started seeds in coco, but it is easy to lose the seed...had quite a few sink farther into the coco than they could grow up before they started to die, so I don't recommend a solo cup of coco, but a small cup of soil does great...or the JIffy pucks.
I haven't used Rockwool personally...not even for hydro...It just seems too picky for my style of laziness...

The jiffy cubes or cups of soil are by far the easiest...
Watch out though, I got some that were coco pucks and supposed to be So much better than the JIffy pucks, they cost more and they sucked...they just dried out too fast or something...I don't know, but they just didn't work as well as the plain old cheap jiffy peat pucks.