My first set of autos emerged from the dirt in maybe 4 days. It was 75 degrees.
However, second set has yet to emerge and it’s been 7 days
I am letting these emerge in the basement this time where it is about 60 degrees.
Does temperature of the soil affect how fast they emerge?
It DEFINITELY does. I hate germinate’n seeds in winter because my grow is ~15 degrees cooler on average. From seed pop to lights on.
Always germ seeds between 75-85… and honestly weed grows at higher temps then advertised too.
Haha reading ur message again ur in the same boat with me. A solid 15 degree swing. Find a cable box/ pc vent to use. Itll go a long way
I won’t even try to pop a purchased seed after Oct.
If u have somewhere warm to put them it should pop
Seedling heating mats are effective and inexpensive. ACInfinity makes some at a reasonable price.
@CMichGrower , Wow, what a great idea
Heat mat and humidity dome never fails
Yeah as @CMichGrower mentioned The heated mats work great To up soil temperature. Good luck
All I can say at this point is only 2 have opened up the other 2 look weak as crap. Might be a dead loss to chalk it up to a learning experience
I had to literally dig down to 2 of these that are shown, just to get them to the surface to see the light. It didn’t help that by chance I planted them slightly deeper this go round. I think one will now make it, not sure about the other.
Lesson learned.
Just curious how deep you 1st plant them?
Not too deep… About maybe 1 inch. Supposed to be like 3/8" The biggest problem was the temperature of the dirt… like 60 F. I also flooded the &$#6& thing by accidentally pouring water over it when it was tiny. i think this uprooted and upturned it so it had to reroot itself. Other than the temperature, this was mainly my fault.
Got really lucky all 4 are doing well now but it was really iffy on the one’s i had to dig out and reorient
Those are way too wet. That’s called damp off. No wet dirt should be directly on stem that young the closest water should have been was the edges of the leaves
@Bluntsmoke
That photo of mine was AFTER they re-emerged and fresh spraying.
Anyway, regardless, there was little hope when they were in limbo and now they are doing fine
Glad ya got them bounced back👍
Thanks. Yeh, this was my first winter grow in a basement and had no clue that the behavior of sprouting would be so different.
Big lesson learned. Should have read a lot more here before thinking it would just be a repeat from my first grow in the summer. Overconfidence. Shame on me
Get ready for veg too, cool temps can make a 8 week veg turn 14+ weeks real fast.
You will learn a new “lesson” every grow👍
