FATBOYFRESH
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These clones are monster cropped...I won't need to top them.... Also they take longer to root.. I transplanted the healthiest one last night... Hopefully it takes off....in the mean time I'm germinating some seed
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These clones are monster cropped...I won't need to top them.... Also they take longer to root.. I transplanted the healthiest one last night... Hopefully it takes off....in the mean time I'm germinating some seed
HazednConfused
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Yeah, I was talking about topping your seedlings which will probably surpass the growth of your clones
mattman998
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I had a plant that was stunted really badly for a long time pull through eventually. It wasn't really worth the time that it took under the light, but it was good to see that it was possible to recover. I'd recommend you keep trying to revive them, just for the experience.
@HazednConfused has the right idea in my opinion. Have fun with those seeds but take it real easy on them for the first few weeks. What I do for seeds is prepare a cup of soil, moisten it, poke a small hole in the middle of the soil, drop in the seed, brush some soil over it, and then cover the top of the cup loosely with saran wrap and put it under the light. Don't even touch it for 3-4 days. Don't add water. Once the baby is up and off the soil I take off the saran wrap and let it breathe I had 10/10 germinate the last time I did this and it's nice and easy so I'm going to keep doing it.
@HazednConfused has the right idea in my opinion. Have fun with those seeds but take it real easy on them for the first few weeks. What I do for seeds is prepare a cup of soil, moisten it, poke a small hole in the middle of the soil, drop in the seed, brush some soil over it, and then cover the top of the cup loosely with saran wrap and put it under the light. Don't even touch it for 3-4 days. Don't add water. Once the baby is up and off the soil I take off the saran wrap and let it breathe I had 10/10 germinate the last time I did this and it's nice and easy so I'm going to keep doing it.
HazednConfused
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That's a pretty cool way to germinate and plant at the same time! I think ill try that with at least one of my terminating seeds next grow around. The saran wrap makes it like an incubator or something right?
HazednConfused
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I have a pitri dish with a lid. I moisten a paper towel and place seeds all spaced out in it and then fold the paper towel over, place it in the pitri dish, pop a lid on it, and put it in my cupboard. They'll usually all be sprouted to about half inch tap roots by the 3rd day of germ. Then I poke a hole in my soil I'm the pot with a pencil about 1.5inch deep, drop the seed in tap root down, cover with a light covering of soil and hit it with a splash of water. Works perfect evertyime.
mattman998
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Yeah, the plastic keeps the humidity in. I tried using sandwich bags but they were more of a pain in the butt. Saran wrap you can just drape over the cup and it seems to work great.
I started a couple of batches with paper towels too and it worked well, up until the part where I had to touch the seeds with my big dumb fingers. I think I killed a few babies early on by touching them too much on their way from the paper to the cup. I like to germinate in the cup because it takes one more variable out of the picture.
A few of the ways that I've killed seedlings:
- Watering too hard, like actually letting the water flow too fast, and washing the seed right out of the place it had settled in the soil.
- Watering too much
- Starting a seed in 100% perlite and not giving it any nutrients
- Dropping a light on it, crushing the stem and roasting the leaves
- Letting it grow into the CFL bulb, frying all of the tiny leaves at once
- Planting a seedling right next to where we feed the birds. I hope that bird liked the taste.
HazednConfused
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Lol 1000 ways to die: seedling edition
