How long were they in the soil before it broke ground? This is an 11 year old seed 1/5.
I take notes on my grows and it took 4 days before they were above soil and doing well.
how are those tomato seeds doing?
Like djs birdseed method pretty much yeah that can help with some that are struggling
honestly just room temperature is fine. I don't even do the paper towels anymore because I always leave them too long and they get tangled. I just germinate straight in the cups under light. If nothing is coming up in 2 weeks I replace the seed, sometime they surprise you though. I gave a friend a really late popped mutant. It took like 4 weeks to break soil and was barely growing. After it surpassed the mutations it grew a whorled phyllotaxy trait, and had some super nice nuggets
5-10 year old seeds has been no issue. Ive took them out the fridge and left them for a day to adjust temps. Then germinated via normal methods. But tough old seeds I would look in to oxy plus sterilization methods and then look up coconut water method. Its used by many professionals. The gibrillic method is much harder to get successful plants from as many germinate, stretched and then die. Ive know some that survive to cary mutations that for some reason pas on when some of those plants are used in breeding. The coconut water method should be easy to find and should give better results. Worm bins with fresh worm castings in my experience work very very well too. The balance in nutrients an microbe life along with what ever else they contain works excellent with very old stubborn hard to germinate seed. Some landrace types seem to be used to their own soils and climate along with planting via moon cycles. I found fresh worm castings work well with those types too. Good luck.Hello everybody,
I have a question about germinating old seeds. (11 & 6 year old seeds). Questions actually...
What is your oldest successful germination? How were you able to accomplish this, and what method did you follow? I’m aware of most methods to do this but not a lot of people speaking with actual experience. Also does anyone have experience with gib-acid? My main concern with using gibberellic acid is that it can cause a polyploid mutation. Polyploid mutations can result in a sterile plants which would defeat the entire purpose of this project (Open pollination preservation).
Does anyone have a simple bio catalyst recipe they use as well? I’m going to start with the older ones since there is only 5 regs, Subcools Jesus OG Kush. Norstar already has F2 stock if anyone is interested in the genetics. If you have a simple tek like just H202 and sandpaper with success on anything around this old? I also was thinking about using the monster garden kit but I have to check if the gib acid is in there.
If there is anyone in here with reliable method of using gibberellic acid without causing mutations in any of their experiments.
I remember reading a thread a while ago I can’t find where they used this on some old seeds but I can’t find it. I already have this as well.
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Thank you for your time reading my questions, I know it’s a lot and am grateful for any help.
Curious how you use a razorblade. Do you run it down the seam? And how much so, until its open?
I did, with a razor after it broke ground. Did it very slowly while holding the seed gently with my free hand. After I split the casing I pulled the casing apart. New problem, there is a sort of membrane around the leaves now.
