@Sioux1055 hi hope this info helps you. I always follow ILGM video on how to germinate. Work like a champ every time. The video shows and tells to fill a glass with Luke warm water, drop the seeds in the water. Then put in a warm dark place and leave alone. Check back after 24 hours. By then they should of cracked. But leave them in the water in the warm dark place until the root has came out the seed almost 1/2 a inch or little less. Mine always take about close to 2 and a half days. After that remove the seeds from the cup and plant root down! Good luck
@Sioux1055 I wanted to add after looking at your directions you posted you did it right but took it out the water wat to early. As you see in your instructions picture number 2 the seed that it put in the soil shows a little tail (the root) also reading the instructions you posted it even says takes up to 72 hours in water in a dark place. If I was you Iâd throw them back in a cup with Luke warm water and put back in a dark warm place until there is a small tail showing. Also I see not you have them placed in a paper towel under a light. You can leave them in the wet paper towel if you want put definitely remove the light off the as roots donât like light.
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, I did that and they never grew any kind of root. They cracked open, but that is all they did. I even left one seed in the water for 5 days and still no root.
@Sioux1055 typo: you took it out the water way to early
I left the first seed in for 3 days before planting in the seed starting mix.
@Sioux1055 wow! 5 days! They definitely should of had a long root by then! Did you have them in warm water in a warm dark place?
Yes, I did. Also, since they have NO root, the light wonât hurt them and it is for the warmth. Do you have another suggestion about keeping them warm without light? Heating pad?
@Sioux1055 I just put them in my bathroom closet and shut the bathroom door with the heat on in the bathroom so it stays warm in the bathroom. That along with keeping the lights off in there. Sorry but Iâve never tried heating pad or anything? I use the bathroom closet since bathroom is a smaller space and I can shut the door and the heat will stay in there. Even though you did it for 3+ days, I would still take the seeds and put them back in warm water for a few more days as long as the seed itself is still hard and just wait.
@Sioux1055 I just read this and seems like some seeds can take between 4-10 days. Just need to keep water warmâŚ
After 4 weeks of this situation, I am sooo getting ready to go to the pot shop in town and buy some weed. Joking. I never took the first seed I started with out of the soil it is in. When I moved the soil carefully away from the seed, the seed LOOKS like it wants to grow. I think it may have a bit of a root now so I just carefully put the soil back around it, covered it was plastic wrap and have looked in on it a couple times a day, but have not given it any water since the soil was wet to begin with. The plastic wrap has a lot of condensation on it, so no water needed.
The second seed is in a wet paper towel in the tent, but not directly under the light. I probably should have said that originally. This is a new venture for me since I am always home now (retired 
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None of my peers I know and have interacted and grown with for 30 plus years like the way the cannabis has went. With most of them between the age of 50 and 70 and I being 61 itâs just turned into a three ring cluster. We are all seeing seeds we donât even care to pop. More and more bad and not viable pops with seedlings not worth wasting a penny of electricity on. I just put a brick under a runt plant to get itâs canopy up a bit. Did you know this is the first time I have ever elevated a runt. I knew the plant would be a runt and yet I didnât cull it out like I should have because seeds and sprouts are so bad now days and expensive most grow runts out now. Years past we culled and there really wasnât much culling to be honest. It was rare to have a runt. Itâs just a bred up candy ass fufu weed crap shoot now days.
@Blastfact what do yâall attribute all of this to? Do you think itâs due to a lack of ânatural selectionâ in the wild and more âselective breedingâ practices allowing weaker phenoâs to survive in our controlled environments where as Mother Natures predaturial environmental behavior would cull naturally through survival of the fittest?
In a effort to turn weed into something like fine wine itâs being ruined.
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Light can inhibit or prevent germination in many different types of plants, cannabis included. You may want to rethink no tail / no problem when it comes to lights during germination. In the wild it prevents germination while above ground. Better to wait than to germinate where youâre not going to survive.
I had the same problem with a batch of ILGM seeds. I tried several different methods but I could never get the seeds to sprout. Itâs not you.
ILGM quickly replaced them when I contacted them. I hope thatâs where you got yours.
Yes, I do know that. I did say in a later post that it is not directly under the light. If you have another way to keep the seeds warm I am all ears. What is the best way to keep the seed warm without light?
Sorry to hear that. I did get mine there. When you received the replacement seeds did they germinate? Curious because I just bought more of a different strain.
I donât try and add any extra warmth. I just put them in the medicine cabinet and shut the door during germination/cracking. Roughly 68-70 F. Once theyâre in the dirt they go under the light where itâs warmer.
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I put a couple in water the day I got them. I transferred them to peat pots yesterday but neither is showing signs of development. 
Keeping my fingers crossed. I also started four photos from last year from another supplier.
This is a topic that in my opinion could use more coverage. There is a great deal of information on the Veg and Flower Cycle. A fair amount on drying and curing but the germination and seedling cycle gets shorted. There is some good info. Hellraiser for example had a missive I followed for a long while but I continued to have issues. Not sure if it was the genetics or not but I opted to concentrate on the grower. I get best results with a tail, using the cup of water and then paper towel method, but sometimes I drop them when they have just cracked. The downside here being that it is more difficult to place the tap root pointed up to avoid the helmet head. I also moved my seedling setup out of the basement where the regular grow tents are placed. The lung room there tended to be too cold and either too dry or too wet and I opted to move the seedling setup upstairs where the climate was more mild and consistent. Next problem was damping off. Up they would come and then down they would go a few days or a week later. Too much water generally. Too dry sometimes as an attempted countermeasure. The two finger solo cup swing thing that Hellraiser talks about takes a bit of practice. I opted to go for a tray and a mat that wicks the water which seems to be doing the trick. Ironically I had discarded a similar setup that came with my tent starter kit deeming it unnecessary. Beneath the tray I place a heat mat. At least at first. My final modification was to start in root cubes, which are then moved to solo cups, then three gallon, and finally five or seven gallon grow bags. The root cubes are more fun than necessary but they do allow me to see the root development early having never quite figured out the two solo cup method with the clear cup underneath. While I shouldnât jinx myself, the results are now more consistent. Just dropped (4) JHA and all four are up and started. Two sadly with a seed cap. A downside as I mentioned of not waiting long enough for the taproot. 
PS While I have been at it a few years. I too dropped a few seeds in the dirt in the seventies, I still consider myself a newbie grower and my feedback should be considered as such. Would love to see more on the topic.
