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Not sure why you'd want to add cotton wool to be honest. Couple of sheets of kitchen roll thoroughly wetted and folded over a few times to make a wad, add your seeds then fold the paper back over the top of them. Doesn't matter if they're left in a sealed container or just on a saucer, as long as you don't let the paper dry out. I have a 100% success rate doing this - except for the free seeds some of these companies send out. They seem to have a high failure rate. Funny that innit? :\
 
emkee_reinvented said:
Coffeefilter s unbleaced, wet it, not soaking. Zip lock bags and absolute darkness, a must. Constant and the right temprature.

Place seed in coffeefilter put in bag. Zip, place in darkness. And be amazed by the accelerated germination period days vs week .
Check super regular, mine germinated probable in 2/ max 4 days time. You wanne be quick in time.
Transfer to your growin medium before any leave or even the stalk forms.
This requires gentleness, obvious, but the seeds are strong its the root thats fragile, and might the root likes the filflter.
Let her have it and cut around. So plant wit some paper. But you avoid the funguls and all other problems starting in soil would.

Sorry forgot the one who first came up with this but its miles over special grow seed ground, cotton balls or the toilet paper teqnique.
But again its fast!
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I think this is a good method. I've seen paper towel used for germination as well!
 
lecroute said:
coffee filter method - i would have to look for a place to buy them. they aren't very common here.
i guess i'm going to try the paper towel method, plus some cotton as well?
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If you use cotton balls like my expert prececers did. The fatherless Moms.
If would plant it with the cotton. Damaging the root not worth untangling it. It entangles very well in Cotton balls.
Why not use a dot of eko Wool, natural slow release fertilizer instead. Almost the same.

Then again seeing the cotton thing as kid, i never did it that way.
Why, cause they also cutted of all main leaves so the plant would form,
more side twigs and more and bigger tops? Logical no not really, depriving/ energy creating wounds ?
Yeah damaging a plant in order to get Weed out of it makes no sense.
So just followed intructions in a book that used things like Perlite for seeds

Things I hadden t a clue where to get so, i used potting ground.
Never soaked nor carved seeds like some oldsters did.

Then when clones were legal to sell problem solved, germenating step skipped.
Eassier, than looking at the earth, hoping for that bulb of the seed to appear split and the primal leaves to appear.

Which did happen maybe 50 %, guessing.

Unbleached or pure cotton, maybe unbleached paper towel the better/ eassier option.
No coffee filters, you must live in some weird place, either were they drink solveable Coffee granules like Turkey.
Or more Barista Italian style they don t user paper fitlers, right?
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
Not sure why you'd want to add cotton wool to be honest. Couple of sheets of kitchen roll thoroughly wetted and folded over a few times to make a wad, add your seeds then fold the paper back over the top of them. Doesn't matter if they're left in a sealed container or just on a saucer, as long as you don't let the paper dry out. I have a 100% success rate doing this - except for the free seeds some of these companies send out. They seem to have a high failure rate. Funny that innit? :\
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My coffeefilter adapted method too, might be overdoing it with dark and ziplock, but success rate 100% within a week.
And depending Paper Towel some are more or less the same the less fluffy the better I assume.

Biggest advantage is the root dont stick to it like it would tangle in Cotton ball, or my prefereance if Sheeps Wool fluff.

So the ziplock is just to prevent drying out, makes sense. When locked no need for watering.
Ok it also keeps it a bit sterile. You can wet the filter with cooked water and let it cool down.

Just keep a close eye for when it busts its root out. Never had fungi or seed rot but check for that aswell!
 
Well my mind is made up on how I'm doing this and I've been doing this with 98% success rate and not just cannabis but veggies too.

So I will be getting seedling pot trays. For my auto the 6 pot trays and then the Vega I will be planting at the same time which is spinach and spring onions. Already been working the ground for the autos and veggie patch for the last two weeks.

Back onto topic a pic of the trays

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Then the soil mix for the trays
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Coffeeshroom said:
Then the soil mix for the trays
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Their aint no ingredients off their soil mix on the site. ⚠️ Hate that.

Mine both supermarket, all are so called Bio. One is more or less more Bio then the other.
But technichally they are both not, just compliant with Law regarding putting the name Bio on soil.

They use mostly Peat, wich wil destroy nature and release the gasses heating up the earth.
The better one uses ecofriendly harvested Peat.
Some add wood or Pine wood leftovers, which pesonally is something if to big means sifting out big parts.
Irritating, lucky its brand/ batch related. Milled would be prefeable.

The better one i have now, far from perfect as tests showed most were lacking on the food appartment.
Etiket vs reality. overal scored good. They where all save all Bio [and no relation between price and quality !.

But i ll alway add Lavastarch when repotting with it. SR mineral suplement, 100 % BIO. And if available Coco-Peat.

This 'best one' garden Peat, Ligima [no clue what it is neither to found ?], Peat, Coco and Compost [the death degenrative kind],
80 % Plantsourced nutrients and natural Phosphate and Bacillo Sp.

The other no Ligima, Cocos/ Compost or Bacillus. And the nutrients '100 % BIO' [yeah right, and i can t write]
From mineral [milled unnamed rocks/ moutains] and organic sources [parts of death animal/ fisch and their shit?] .

For Weed I would go for at least a detailed and verified ingredient list. Preferably containing all already mentioned.
Real BIO and no Peat. Besides the Bacillus some Mycorhizea would be good. Regenerating living compost [not meaning Wurms ed]
Maybe some Sheep Wool, Wurm poo and Dry Seaweed to.

Making your own mix re-using and re-vitalizing used soil the ultimate goal. Circulair if possible.
 
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do you have a little clear dome or a plastic bin or something to keep the humidity in?

overwatering is a surefire way of killing them, but the air does need to stay moist, i'm pretty sure. i've killed seedlings both ways.
 
nepalnt21 said:
do you have a little clear dome or a plastic bin or something to keep the humidity in?

overwatering is a surefire way of killing them, but the air does need to stay moist, i'm pretty sure. i've killed seedlings both ways.
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i was just going to ask about watering because i think i overdid it yesterday, a cloudy day on top.
this morning (promise of a sunny day) the soil was still wet, and i didn't water them again because of that.
they are still small, i have them in an egg carton, but will soon transfer them to those plastic bags that can be ripped once the plants are in their definite place? anyway, as long as they are are small i can simply build something to keep moisture in.

question is: how much moisture v. fresh air do they need?
i can simulate tropical climate here as long as they are inside, no problem.
 
my buddy who seriously grows (i'm still a novice) told me he keeps his at 55% humidity, i think? which sounds low, where we live is much more humid than that most of the time.

he told me consistent environment is more important than perfecting the numbers, if i understand it.

the international cannagraphic forums (icmag [dot] com) are a great place to get TONS of growing info
 
nepalnt21 said:
he told me consistent environment is more important than perfecting the numbers, if i understand it.
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makes sense.
i think at some point i won't even move them much.
on more cloudy days like today moving them doesn't make sense anyway. they get enough light.
 
Harvested my two quite large Autoducks and my rather small but chunky Auto orangebud recently, and am currently in the process of trimming and curing.

I've no idea of yield, because my lad has lost my fuckin scales :X


But it doesn't look bad, this is from one of the Autoducks (though I was dipping into it as well)...

 
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F.U.B.A.R. said:
Not sure why you'd want to add cotton wool to be honest. Couple of sheets of kitchen roll thoroughly wetted and folded over a few times to make a wad, add your seeds then fold the paper back over the top of them. Doesn't matter if they're left in a sealed container or just on a saucer, as long as you don't let the paper dry out. I have a 100% success rate doing this - except for the free seeds some of these companies send out. They seem to have a high failure rate. Funny that innit? :\
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Are you serious freaking Summers over dude . Are you an Australian time ! Hello . If you can not get the mechanics in theory of growing outside what makes you think you're going to grow out inside with lights and chemicals fertilizers on and off you should have tried this outside . Next year go to bed . Bad poodle very bad poodle
 
SouthBendRickyG#1 said:
Are you an Australian time ! Hello . If you can not get the mechanics in theory of growing outside what makes you think you're going to grow out inside with lights and chemicals fertilizers on and off you should have tried this outside . Next year go to bed . Bad poodle very bad poodle
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there's reasons why you might not grow outside.
like in my case, where it still gets pretty cold at nights.
cold killed one my babies (and two cucumber babies, too) because they were by the open window.
i would have to start in december if i wanted to grow outside without a protection tent.
 
3 weeks ago i planted 3 girl scouts.
unfortunately two of them didn't make it
the third is growing her first 5-pointed leaves
and already starting to give off a certain aroma
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
Not sure why you'd want to add cotton wool to be honest. Couple of sheets of kitchen roll thoroughly wetted and folded over a few times to make a wad, add your seeds then fold the paper back over the top of them. Doesn't matter if they're left in a sealed container or just on a saucer, as long as you don't let the paper dry out. I have a 100% success rate doing this - except for the free seeds some of these companies send out. They seem to have a high failure rate. Funny that innit? :\
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Also once got some plants from someone grown from free seeds.

8 plants all males, what a coincidence.
Met him later asked about the ones he kept.
All males too.
 
lecroute said:
there's reasons why you might not grow outside.
like in my case, where it still gets pretty cold at nights.
cold killed one my babies (and two cucumber babies, too) because they were by the open window.
i would have to start in december if i wanted to grow outside without a protection tent.
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If the ground. air and rain is polluted.
 
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