Please help me with the germination process!!
Hi,
I have already completed my first grow, so I'm not entirely new to growing, and I have some experience, also I think I can read plants quite well, so I didn't really have big problems while growing.. But there is one part, in which I'm really weak and thus I would like to request some help, preferably from experienced growers. Just to clear it I have already germinated a couple of seeds before, and could handle them, but right now It just won't happen and I don't know what I do wrong. I fucked up 3-4 seeds in the last 2 weeks, and I'm getting really frustrated. I tried different methods and I can't really guess which one is the best, but here is what i have accomplished so far. So I germinated like 9 seeds so far, most of them were soaked in a cup of tap water for 12-24 hours in dark and room temp. and then planted them in soil. Most of the time they sprouted and emerged from the soil, but I remember it took a really long time always, or was I just impatient. For my last and also first successful grow I wanted to use the wet paper towel method, and did for 24 hrs, but then I planted the seed, due to the fear of damaging the taproot, and it did quite well, it took 6 days from seed to sprout and got a really strong healthy plant. But right know I just can't fucking figure it out... So first of all I use viable seeds, which I have purchased from a website aprr. 3-4 months ago, and the were store properly (in a cool, dark drawer), also I know for a fact that they are viable because the first seed popped and got a nice plant from it. I'm pretty sure there is something I fuck up every time now, because 1 of the 4 seeds has popped and the tap root started to grow, but it stopped and then rot (I think I damaged the root while handling it). As far as I know you need 3 things for cannabis germination.. 1. water (moisture, or could I say dampness), 2. warmth (24-40 C ??), and 3. darkness. Right now I'm trying the wet paper towel method again.. everyone seems to like it and get great results. So I put 2 seeds between two thick layers of paper towel, which was moistened entirely with pHed water to 6.5 and with a tiny amount of grow nutes, then I squeezed out appr. the half of the whole wetness, so its just damp not soaking wet, then put it in a ziplock bag, blew a littlebit of air inside, locked it completely and then put this between two plates and also taped them together, so its really dark. This thing is now put on a radiator that is pretty hot (~40 C). I think what I always do wrong is the temperature, because I saw ppl germ in 36 hrs.. and its really cold here nowadays, also when I had success with germinating, It was summer and also pretty hot. So please help me!! I'm really excited to apply all my previously gained knowledge to make better buds, but I just can't get there.
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Originally Posted by M_C
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