HELP - I need somebody - dry sprout..

Wondered if anyone has any experience with this...
I recently purchased a single seed from pick 'n' mix - Original Flo - cost £15 including postage, received less than 2 days later (typical), germinated and planted. Unfortunatly in my over zelious attempt to prevent over watering i've dried it out...

It's been almost 3 days since planting, I just scraped the top layer of soil off i found it had dug a root into the soil but the seed head was still attached and seemed pretty dry...

So has anyone gotten away with this before? - do I really have to fork out another £15? - do I really have shit for brains?

Well, thanks for all your help...

Joking aside, for anyone who's interested, and to waste the time of those of you bastards who so selfishly arn't, my flo died.

To turn a negative into a positive I orded another Orginal Flo AND a 'Purple Jem' and had a wank

better luck next time mate!

Next time has arrived...the seeds just came in, along with my ship (rollitup.org fame here I come). Yet another 2 day delivery from pickandmixseeds .

So now i'm germing both. The Purple Jem (Mossy's Jem) is regular, so, on the plus side, if I do end up with a male i can cross it with the Original Flo to get 'Purple Flo' - or 'Mossy's Purple Orginal Jem Flo'. I think the second one is punchier.
Before someone jumps in, like a school kid with his arm overly stretched shouting "miss, miss", I do realise the result won't be autoflowering, but the mystery seeds would be free and unique - well worth growing...

Suppose i'll report back in a couple of weeks with some pics, unless someone gives a fuck enough to ask me about my setup beforehand.

Till then i'm going to touch my self, these emoticons have got me all hot and bothered -kiss-ass- kiss it mr chips, your rent's due muhahahahaa

to stop it drying out you can use a clear plastic bottle as a humidity dome for a few days.. or just spray the surface with water ...

what kinda setup do u have?

i use 24w 6400k t5 for propergation.

600w hps for veg and flower.

am getting an mh bulb for veg next time tho.

i grow in COCO COIR with IONIC COCO GROW/BLOOM/BOOST with CANNA PK1314.

happy growing.


J

jondamon said:

to stop it drying out you can use a clear plastic bottle as a humidity dome for a few days.. or just spray the surface with water ...


J

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I was just overly causious, I've been overwatering seedlings recently which has stunted their growth. I've flushed and completely dried the cheap garden shop soil, removed the bark chunks and added plently of perlite/vermiculite. I think the problem was that it became far too light and dried too quickly, regardless of how often I sprayed the top. This time i'll soak the soil thoroughly first.

Lighting is a cheap repilca envirolite from basementlighting.com. It's 125w dual spectrum (half blue and half red tubes)
For flowering (or a little earlier) i'll turn on 3 20w red spectrum bulbs.

I may consider uploading a picture or two, if anyone else here gives a squatting toss, otherwise I'll just wait till they sprout to start my journal in a new thread.

For now you must excuse me, as I have to squat down for something..

i would be patient, ive had seeds not pop up for well over a week. 3 days is soon 2 start digging it up

you should really use a soil that is sterile, i found that using a cheap soil you normally end up with some kind of pest you didn't want . thrips fungus gnats etc so be carefull using this stuff.

J

milkmilk said:

i would be patient, ive had seeds not pop up for well over a week. 3 days is soon 2 start digging it up

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I had a feeling i'd messed up already. I dug around the seed and found it was dry right down, so checked the seed - it's head dry, so I covered it and watered it and checked it 24 hours later to confirm it had died.
I've always had them pop up within 3 days myself, after that they haven't popped up at all. If i'd been more patient i'd've lost a few days before I reordered - time is weed.

jondamon said:

you should really use a soil that is sterile, i found that using a cheap soil you normally end up with some kind of pest you didn't want . thrips fungus gnats etc so be carefull using this stuff.

J

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You're right, I haven't had any trouble this time, but last time I used cheap stuff I got bugs including fungus gnats. The next time, when I used the decent stuff, I noticed one of the last bugs crawling along the thermometer, it was smaller than this full stop . I took a shot of it, using a canon isus camera in macro mode, and zoomed in to identify it (springtail) Now it's my avatar.

I usually use bio-all mix or whatever it's called, but this time I round I had to go cheap...I then had a problematic grow with it. After that grow I flushed the soil and soaked it in water, pulling out the crappy bark chunks floating on top, then I dryed it - it got far too dry and I didn't hydrate the whole pot before planting, hence my £15 dried seed.

Well you pay for you mistakes, and as they say 'good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement'.
So if I put them together - 'good judgement comes from having the money to afford bad judgement'
It's no small wonder that the words 'experience' and 'expense' are are so similar.
Anyway, my retarded stoner talk aside, thanks for your interest in my thread - I'll have a brand new journal thread up soonish

Right now I need to clear my head, and my balls...(onanising over two birds in one stone).