Hey mate I'll give it a go and see what happens
Made my own fem beans but they won't germ???
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Farmer's Hat
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What kind of soil are you germinating them in?
Squidbilly
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Ditch the paper towels. Have you tried going right into a root riot or other starting mix, then into your heated propagator? Paper towels only waste time and add an extra dangerous step at the most vunerable point in the plants life. Even if you've used the method for years, I've seen the exact same thing happen to many people using paper towels-some strains can handle the stress of germing in a paper towel but some do exactly what yours are doing-thow a tap root and die. My theory is it thows a tap root and realizes it's not 'in the ground' and there isn't ANY light and it get's stressed and dies.
Plant directly into a medium(either starter cube/soil/coco/etc) add water, heat, and light immediately and I bet you'll get at least a handful to sprout. In fact, 'germination' shouldn't be done unless you plan on popping an ungodly amount of seeds and don't want to waste any medium/time planting any that aren't even going to pop.
Plant directly into a medium(either starter cube/soil/coco/etc) add water, heat, and light immediately and I bet you'll get at least a handful to sprout. In fact, 'germination' shouldn't be done unless you plan on popping an ungodly amount of seeds and don't want to waste any medium/time planting any that aren't even going to pop.
Hey squidbilly,
Yeah I'm not a fan of the paper towel method either, as I've already said at the start of the thread I've tried just about all germination methods known. My favorite method by far is using jiffy's in my heat propagator and it rarely fails me. I then just cut of the netting and I'm all good. But these beans are very hard to get going, like I say I'm having better results leaving them outside in a nice seed/cutting mix I bought and the germ rates are much better.
Not ass good as I'd like but at least there coming up. The last lot I did in my propagator I used the 20 in paper towel in a zip lock bag, 10 in jiffy's, 10 in a glass of water until they sunk and then what ever throw a tap root out of the paper towel and glass of water, went into small pot's and back into the heat dome.
Results= 2 plants LOL and they came from the jiffy's. They just keep rotting in my heat dome? even in the jiffy's.
Decided to just put 30 in one of those jiffy domes (not heated and filled it with my seed raising mix) outside and ended up with around 18 but 4 were retards. As I said they were actually coming up in the cool of the night so I get the feeling they don't like the constant heat?
So I'm getting roughly 50% which I'm now happy with considering I didn't pay for them. I'm going to make some more in the future but I will do things a little different.
Squidbilly
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Awesome, glad to hear you got some going!
Maine Buds
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I would say replicate nature. Leave the seeds on the bud as you cure. Let them dry for a month and freeze them for a month. Put them directly in soil and let. Grow. I m no expert and have had problems with my seeds but I think it's just common sense . Excitement can get the best of us!
Maine Buds
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Yes they say reg femals are more stable.
LoRd MeGaTR0N31
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This happen to me when I made my GDP crosses. None of my beans would pop I have thousands of them. It turns out I was trying to germ them to early. I notice that when I tried to germ after about 3weeks after harvesting seeds none would crack So I left them alone for like a whole extra month they was expose to open air. Now they all germ with no issues.
