If you have luck straight to soil then go for it. I did for many years when I was getting good seeds from a breeder friend. Also know that anything that comes from out of country has the potential to be irradiated when it passes through customs. They do it to prevent foreign bugs and such from ruining unnatural ecosystems, but it can also hinder the viability of seeds.
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Yeah, maybe the 1st plant was my only luck with this cause it wasn’t planned and didn’t know what was going to happen. Now I have equipment and schedules and knowledge of all the things that can happen and how they grow…now I’m getting nothing but duds
It’s almost always too much water or poor environment. You can also use a 1% H2O2 solution for your soak the extra o2 in the water is good for the reticle and it kills of any nasty microbes that might hinder germination if you do over water.
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72 is probably a bit to low for germ imo
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I have only germed weed seeds 1 way and thats soak em in water and keep in warm dark area. Most pop in 2days then go into the soil. I have had some take up to 4 and 5 days but all did eventually pop a tail.
I recently started adding the h202 in the cups and it has increased how fast the tails pop. 2 days on my last 3 seeds
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to a point the better your environment the faster they will germinate. I’ve even had one or two exceptional seeds that had primaries when they broke ground on day 3 or four. If your trying to get a quick turnaround it can be critical to get through the seedling stage as fast as possible. If your running Photos and not in a hurry then it’s not as critical since you can make up for lost time, but I still find the best plants I’ve grown started with a quick efficient germination and seedling stage.
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Everyone does say the seedling stage is the hardest to get past… in my mind making it on of the most important stages. For awhile there i never thought id make it. Damn things can be so fragile 
Now my biggest issues are keeping my ph/ppms numbers in check. Was so disappointed losing my last Bruce Banner grow.
My first 3 or 4 grows it was always something different i had to deal with and got to be a headache but its been very managable with this forum and its great people. Theres so much info to read on i get lost in old posts all the time
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That’s why I’m not a big fan of synthetics in soil. I save them for coco grows and stick to the slower release organics for soil. That’s just my personal preference though.
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I wana give coco a shot at somepoint but id have to get some setup to automate feeding lol. No way i could do it without some sort of help
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Ya, if your going to go coco auto irrigation adds consistency which smooths things out significantly. it’s great for fast growth and large yields, but organic is likely the king of quality.
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Exactly!
Yaaa i have read a few threads of people building their own “super soil” that produced great results. That would also be interesting to try out. I need a bit more experience b4 i try anything else out imo
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It all just depends on what your goals are. In the grand scheme of things any method has the potential to produce killer bud. You just have to perfect the method.
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I agree! I like what i have been using but perfecting it is key! I actually just recently switched to jacks hoping to simplify my feeding a bit more.
I just have to stay on top of my numbers. 
Hopefully this run will be a soild one for me
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So do you feed with straight water for about a month before you feed anything else? My soil says 6 months but with the watering it’ll deplete that a lot sooner, correct?
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It depends on your particular soil. If it says 6 months there is a good chance it has time release fertilizer which wouldn’t be Ideal for our purposes. What soil are you using? Most potting soils will sustain a plant for a few weeks. During that time you would feed simple PH water assuming you will be using syntheic ferts.
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Yes it a time release it’s black gold brand. It’s what I used on my 1st run it did great, I just know imma have to add more nutrients as it begins to flower , that’s why I’m asking when should I start feeding additional things
You can certainly grow decent flower in time release soil, but it can be difficult to determine how much to feed because your EC meter doesn’t know the difference in soluble and insoluble nutes so your Runoff will likely read high. There is no way of telling what is usable and what is not. that would make calibrating your feed harder and knowing when to feed harder because you would have to look for signs in the plant rather than just taking a measurement. You would also need to start pretty small since we wouldn’t know how much time release is left. Then it’s a game of trying to judge this deficiency vs that excess which will look pretty similar. for instance excess calcium presents itself by retarding the plants ability to use K, Fe, Mg, and Mn. So do you have a deficiency in K or and abundance of Ca stopping the plant from using the K that it there but unavailable to the plant. Also once the medium loses it’s buffer you can suffer PH drift because the slow release fertilizer is gone and no longer reducing the overall soil PH. Like I said it’s doable, but unnecessarily complicated.
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So To answer your question, You would need to feed at the first sign of deficiency with a mild feed and from there you might be able to guess.
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Thanks for the useful information. I will hope I can survive this run with this soil than I’m on to the fox farm
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Knowing ahead of time is half the battle. I’ve grown many a beautiful plant FFOF. I’m not a huge fan of their nutes though.
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