I've recently gotten back into growing and I am having the hardest time getting seeds to pop.
I've had to make a slight adjustment to my previous method and I'm not sure exactly where I'm going wrong.
I used to have DirecTV and I would place my seeds in a damp paper towel and put them on top of the DirecTV box in my entertainment console. Within 48-72 hours I would have popped seeds and 1 inch or more of root. I no longer have DirecTV and I don't have anything warm to set them on so I bought a seedling tray with a cover and a warming pad. In some instances I get the seeds to pop, but I get no more than 1/8 inch of a root to come out and in others the seeds don't even pop at all. Since January I've germinated maybe 50 seeds now and only one has popped a substantial root and grown into a plant.
I have water I use to feed/water my plants and I've tried that as well as water straight from the tap with the same results. I'm down to my last 2 seeds from Herbies and I really don't want them to go to waste.
Any advice?
ETA: I'm placing the seeds in a damp towel on a plate on the warming pad, not directly in the tray. I have put some in when they showed a small root and no plant grew. Others I tried to give a few more days in the towel to get more root growth but it didn't go past 1/4 of an inch. Even putting those in the tray got me nothing.
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