Best way to germinate?

[Whitey66]

Should I put the seeds straight into the coco or wet cotton pads?


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[Jingo]

Should I put the seeds straight into the coco or wet cotton pads?


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Soak in a cup of warm water for 24 hours and then directly into coco that is already prepared with say calcium and magnesium or very light amount of feed. Cover the area where you put the seedling with a little plastic cup and mist the top of your coco everywhere else so it doesn't dry out. I just use a spray mister. If your pot is big enough you shouldn't have to water for three or four days If you do it that way.



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[Whitey66]

When you say warm how warm mate? And is it ok just to put it directly into a 15 litre pot? Should I just put cal mag in and nothing else? When do I start adding other nutrients? Thanks for the help!


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[Jingo]

You want to start with your water around 30° and if you can keep the cup in an area that will stay 25 to 30 degrees you'll be good. I usually use calcium and magnesium as a precharge for my cocoa, because my calcium and magnesium contains 1% nitrogen so it has a lot of good stuff. Some calcium and magnesium can be very high nitrogen and it probably still works fine you just have to kind of look at that and be aware.

Plenty of guys will tell you the seedling has enough nutrients to go two or three days and I've seen that work okay most of the time, but every once in awhile you'll get a seedling little grow so quick that it obviously suffers not having nutrients in the coco. so you do want to free charge either with calcium and magnesium or just a very weak feed of your main nutrients.

Feel the weight of your pot when it's just been watered through with your initial nutrients and then pick it up every time you go into check your plant and when it feels about half the weight that you started with then you feed. Soil growers will want their pots to be about 80 to 90% less weight. In coco though, you want to feed more often and you don't want to dry out as much. Once your plant is mature, about 3 weeks of age, you can feed as many times a day as you want. A mature plant in Coco is pretty much impossible to over water, I've managed to overwater on a couple occasions with young plants it's very hard to do. But I'm real good at doing things that are hard to do.

One thing that I do and I recommend, but I've never seen anybody actually follow my recommendations here on the talk. is put a couple inches of very thoroughly washed clay pebbles on top of your coco, put it on all the way around your little plastic cup covering your seedling so you do it your first day. as your seedling is growing under the cup lift the cup up a little bit and allow some pebbles underneath. What should happen is once your seedling is a couple inches tall you remove the plastic cup entirely and it's just growing out of the petals. If you do it that way there's no need to mist the top of your coco and you get enough air movement under your plastic cup that you don't have to worry about damping off. The clay pebbles block all the flying critters like root aphids from getting down into your root zone and multiplying.



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[Whitey66]

Ok thanks I’ve put it in 27c water for now in a dark cupboard. Should I let the root pop before putting it into coco or just put it in after 24 hours anyway?

Should I use small pots to start off then with a plastic cup on top or just use a big pot from start to finish like the 15 litres I want to use?

I’ll use a small amount of cal mag and some rhizotonic to start it slowly then!

Thanks for all the info I appreciate it!


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[Easy-T]

If your doing auto's I go straight in final pot, photos you'll have to keep potting up in size, I germinate this way to I just give a poke after 12/18 hrs so they sink ,then pot them up after 24hrs

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[Whitey66]

Thanks for the advice mate I’ll try that then! One has gone straight to the bottom as soon as I put it in? Does this mean it’s no good?


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[Easy-T]

I'm not sure mate, I've always had floaters till you push them down, should think it's still good though, will still need a soaking to soften the casing up

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[GEORGE]

Thanks for the advice mate I’ll try that then! One has gone straight to the bottom as soon as I put it in? Does this mean it’s no good?


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No, it is good, just has A small pin hole, in it some where more than likely, should burst open fairly soon.

[Whitey66]

Thanks I’ll keep and eye out I’ll open the cupboard and check later!


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