long time successful grower isnt having success anymore, looking for help please

nflguy

nflguy

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Hi Guys, I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong lately. I've been growing indoors for about 8 years and always with great success. Lately I cant even get a popped seed to sprout out of the soil. What am I doing wrong all of a sudden?
A little background..... I grow with 400W of MH light and switch to 400W HPS to flower in a 24"x36"x60" tent. Always nice buds and great smoke and always got seeds through Herbies. When Herbies stopped transactions with credit cards I switched to other places like ministry of cannabis and south oregon. I never got a seed from either place that even popped on a wet paper towel so I sent cash to Herbies to get "good seeds" again. I put 4 seeds on a paper towel and all 4 popped in 2 days. I transferred them, taproot down to a red solo cup with fox farms happy frog and a little extra perlite mixed in under an HLG 65 quantum board LED. Its been 4 days and I see nothing coming up yet. I dont know if Im watering too much or not enough or if I'm not waiting long enough? Any help is appreciated. Im just getting frustrated cause this was never a problem before. Thanks guys
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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Is the medium cold? I know QBs tend to radiate heat upward rather than project it down like a MH does.
Most of my LED growing has been flower only and cmh or mh for veg. But just set up a small 2x4 in a new house and got a QB for veg, the house is really cold too because we use log burners to heat the area we chill in and save on heating the house.
lol I digress, point is I added small propagators under the pots to keep the root zone comfortable the plants soon picked up pace.


Do you have any way of measuring the medium temps?
 
nflguy

nflguy

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ApfelStrudel said:
How deep did you put them? Take a toothpick and search for them gently to see what's going on.
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made a hole with a toothpick then dropped it in. The seed casing was a little under soil level which i just moved a little soil on top of it
 
nflguy

nflguy

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coreywebster said:
Is the medium cold? I know QBs tend to radiate heat upward rather than project it down like a MH does.
Most of my LED growing has been flower only and cmh or mh for veg. But just set up a small 2x4 in a new house and got a QB for veg, the house is really cold too because we use log burners to heat the area we chill in and save on heating the house.
lol I digress, point is I added small propagators under the pots to keep the root zone comfortable the plants soon picked up pace.


Do you have any way of measuring the medium temps?
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its definitely not real warm where they are. I think Im gonna hand a couple incandescent bulbs in there with the LED just to get the temp up
 
Pa-Nature

Pa-Nature

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I do pop them before soil setting though and let tails get 1/4 inch long .
Here is 12 hrs after put in paper towel.
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Midnight Warrior

Midnight Warrior

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I put mine in water for 24 hours, then damp paper towel for a few days. Once the taproot is long enough, I slice a rapid rooter on the side all the way to the middle to make a little pocket. Place the seedling taproot down in the rooter. Then put them in a propogator with a heating pad for 2 days. 100% success rate so far.
 
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Beachwalker

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nflguy said:
Hi Guys, I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong lately. I've been growing indoors for about 8 years and always with great success. Lately I cant even get a popped seed to sprout out of the soil. What am I doing wrong all of a sudden?
A little background..... I grow with 400W of MH light and switch to 400W HPS to flower in a 24"x36"x60" tent. Always nice buds and great smoke and always got seeds through Herbies. When Herbies stopped transactions with credit cards I switched to other places like ministry of cannabis and south oregon. I never got a seed from either place that even popped on a wet paper towel so I sent cash to Herbies to get "good seeds" again. I put 4 seeds on a paper towel and all 4 popped in 2 days. I transferred them, taproot down to a red solo cup with fox farms happy frog and a little extra perlite mixed in under an HLG 65 quantum board LED. Its been 4 days and I see nothing coming up yet. I dont know if Im watering too much or not enough or if I'm not waiting long enough? Any help is appreciated. Im just getting frustrated cause this was never a problem before. Thanks guys
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If all of a sudden you're having trouble where you started buying the seeds you might want to buy them somewhere else or maybe Chuck some pollen and make some, good luck!
 
nflguy

nflguy

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Beachwalker said:
If all of a sudden you're having trouble where you started buying the seeds you might want to buy them somewhere else or maybe Chuck some pollen and make some, good luck!
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Thanks. Thats why I went back to good old reliable Herbies
 
jarvild

jarvild

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Are you planting according to the moon phases?
Just Kidding, I'm having problems with a few seeds myself right now bought off of breeders but not having problems with 10 year old seeds from a pollen chuck. Makes you wonder now a days?
 
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