Opening seeds by hand

[Tuone]

I just found a new way to open seedies yesterday, after reading something about sanding seeds that had trouble germing, i remembered that my ones do tend to take long to germ and have thick husks.

Fiddling around with the seeds i noticed that they all pop open at the root end, if you squeeze the ridge next to the pointy end... you would think it would be easy to twat the pith of the seed inside but actually it seemed very safe because the husk has space to flex and the pith has abit of air around it. ou need a 2mm of thumbnail and you hold the seed in thumb and finger and the roll your nail onto the pointy ridge abit under the point of the seed, on the root side.

So anyway, knowing i wanted to plant them all on the same day and that they a bitch to germinate, i cracked all 100 of them

here is a pic for describing cracking seeds by hand... ever heard of it before???? it rocks its really easy, so far 50% of the seeds seem to have rooties protruding the next day i soaked em in water 3 hours first, if you leave them 7 8 hours they go too mushy you can't pop them. only worth it if you have seeds varieties that take 7 8 days, you can do it in 2. y

[old skool toker]

well done mate you just smashed the thc talk record for the 10 plant rule.....much qudos.......100 seeds lol

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HOLY SMOKES! 100 hay!?

[Tuone]

yeah but not cannabis seeds! i grow for hemp chord only, you druggies are always imagining things!

[Tuone]

20 lowryder seeds are equivalent to 1 thai seed as they are micro's that's why!

[VMAX]

nice one, my triplets can be a bitch sometimes

[markieaaryn]

well done mate you just smashed the thc talk record for the 10 plant rule.....much qudos.......100 seeds lol

I just started my girls I have 4. I don't know what strain they are but they look like they are worth wait for.
I have a few questions but i will start with this one.

I started them in a miracle grow 0.21-0.7-0.14 potting soil. I and wondering
1. Can I now use a plant food with 24-8-16
2 Will this hurt them
3 They are three weeks old

[Tuone]

it's pretty amazing, 24 hours after putting them in damp tissues they are all germed with tails. surely someone must have figured this out before!

[Tuone]

1. Can I now use a plant food with 24-8-16

3 They are three weeks old[/QUOTE]

just check the leaf color, if they need nutes you can water them from after the first leaves come up, water dilute untill you see the leaves all green. 3 weeks is easily old enough the root will be 2 feet in 3 weeks

[Tuone]

Update on popping seeds by hand... It Frigging Rocks!!!! It worked so well it caught me by surprise and all the seeds had great big roots on them after 2 days of soaking, so i had to take extra care planting them and they were starting to lose their orientation by the time i got to plant site. What's more, nearly 100 percent germination rate.

soaking them for 3-4 hours seems to make them pop abit easier but you can pop them as long as they arent green. you have to plant them within 24 hours of soaking them if you pop them because if you have alot it is a total hassle to take care of loads of seeds with rootlets, if you just soak a day and stick them in the wet ground they should come up extra nice.