Germinating seeds on my ballast

Tetrahedral

Tetrahedral

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Never put water near electricity, you can get an instant fire.

These seeds don't need warmth but it will speed their germination, a couple days won't make a difference over the length of the grow.

Do you need to do this?
 
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Mak'er Grow

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Put a plate or dish (heat resistant/not plastic) between bag and ballast...so if anything leaks or melts it wont get to the ballast.
 
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chronnie49

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Oakiey said:
Plant them seeds

Why use a extra step that you could screw up
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I am curious why people use this extra step as well. I used to use clones so I have only planted around 15 seeds but I just put them in a starter pot and in a few days they sprout.

Is there some benefit of using the paper towel method instead of just putting the seed straight into the medium?
 
Dannydavito

Dannydavito

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chronnie49 said:
I am curious why people use this extra step as well. I used to use clones so I have only planted around 15 seeds but I just put them in a starter pot and in a few days they sprout.

Is there some benefit of using the paper towel method instead of just putting the seed straight into the medium?
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For the impatient it allows you to see the progress. I would be digging through the soil to see if the seed had sprouted. This way I get to feel special!
Edit: also I'm doing dwc and these seeds are going straight into hydroton. I wanted to know they were sprouted before putting them in.
 
Tetrahedral

Tetrahedral

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chronnie49 said:
I am curious why people use this extra step as well. I used to use clones so I have only planted around 15 seeds but I just put them in a starter pot and in a few days they sprout.

Is there some benefit of using the paper towel method instead of just putting the seed straight into the medium?
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There is no benefit, the end result is a seedling in both cases. There are a lot of fails using paper towels and few using soil.
 
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chronnie49

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Tetrahedral said:
There is no benefit, the end result is a seedling in both cases. There are a lot of fails using paper towels and few using soil.
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I would be worried about damaging the tiny root and I imagine thats where people run into problems.

Out of I think 15 seeds I've planted I only had one not sprout so I'll stick with going straight into the dirt. I like to keep things as simple as possible as long as it works.
 
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