its been 48 hours and seeds havent broke threw the soil...anyone no why???

sneakerhead702

sneakerhead702

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I have a closet set up I have my plant pots sitting in a fish tank on top of a box so it could be closer to my floro liight I have a 65000k growing floro liight wit 2 tubes ...and I give it 18hours of liight and 6 hours with out light .....I watered it last niight night just a little biit because the soil was looking dry on top.....I didn't plant it deep I just planted it root first and I still have the seed head a little above soil sbut its covered just a liiiiiiittle biit.....I'm just curious RIU....let me kno wats up..
 
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fdd2blk

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seeds take a lot more than 24 hours to break thru the surface. give it a few days. maybe a week.
 
kronic1989

kronic1989

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light wont make a different until leaves start showing, right now they need lots of moisture in the soil and some time. Give them time. Maybe cover up the heads of the seeds, they should be planted 1/4th an inch underneath soil.
 
kanabis

kanabis

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I rather germinate my seeds before putting them soil before. Here is the reason: seeds have already all the nutrients and component for the seed to germinate and your soil which is probably high in Nitrogen might actually compromise the development of the seed. Just put your seeds between 2 layers of cheese cloth or napkin paper in a plate, wet the all thing with distilled water since we only need moisture. Remove excess of water and put the plate somewhere dark (a drawer, a closet). Make sure the cloth/paper is wet but not to the point that seeds are immersed in water or they will drown or rot. Generally the second day or so, the seed will germinate. Grab delicately the seed and insert it into a rooting cube with the little stem going downward. Keep the moisture to +/- 90% and in less that a week you will see the stem and coteidon develop. After a couple week the seedling will be then ready for transplanting in soil.
 
sneakerhead702

sneakerhead702

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kanabis said:
I rather germinate my seeds before putting them soil before. Here is the reason: seeds have already all the nutrients and component for the seed to germinate and your soil which is probably high in Nitrogen might actually compromise the development of the seed. Just put your seeds between 2 layers of cheese cloth or napkin paper in a plate, wet the all thing with distilled water since we only need moisture. Remove excess of water and put the plate somewhere dark (a drawer, a closet). Make sure the cloth/paper is wet but not to the point that seeds are immersed in water or they will drown or rot. Generally the second day or so, the seed will germinate. Grab delicately the seed and insert it into a rooting cube with the little stem going downward. Keep the moisture to +/- 90% and in less that a week you will see the stem and coteidon develop. After a couple week the seedling will be then ready for transplanting in soil.
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That's what I did I germinated them first till the root came out then I planted iit....I said I planted them root first but kinda kept da head of the seed above soil..but iits covered just a lil biit.......I use the paper towel method to germinate
 
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