Hello all!
I’m trying to pop some older seeds. 3 of them. The only 3 I have of this strain.
I’m 6 days into the process and only one shows any sign of life.
So my question is; what can I do to help this little girl along? I’m currently in a moist paper towel, on a heat map and I’ve sprinkled a little bit of Great White in the paper towel.
The shell is cracked and I can see inside of it. A small tail has appeared but has stalled at where you see it.
Man I’m watching also. I’ve had 2 seeds do this to me also. Pop tails then do nuffin. Get mush and that’s all.
No specific advice, but I’ve put seeds in soil at about that stage of germination and they went ahead and grew.
I would give them some kind of rooting hormones if you have something even a little honey melted into a little water would help but there’s many others aspirin, aloe, cinnamon, willow bark, even some of your spit lol there’s more I just can’t think of anymore
I agree with @Bulldognuts I had a bubblegum fem from ILGM do the same and she started to grow once I got her in soil, just took an extra day to sprout
Rooting hormone…. I like it.
I’m giving it two more days tops
I have some ILGM black widow on standby
Good luck it sucks when this happen. Got me sane way with 2x g13 peach puree seeds from Herbie’s. They sprout a tail like that or a bit bigger then nothing and went mush. Have 2 more to try so waiting to see ur outcome now on this. Would be nice to get atleast 1 grower from the pack
It probably is mush. I’m just afraid to touch it…
Lol. What kind seed is it??
I’d go ahead and plant them. I bury them no more than 36 hours from start of soak even if they’ve only cracked.
Raspberry Parfait from Humboldt Seeds
That’s probably a good thing. I’m going to guess that one of the reasons my cracked seeds turn to mush is that it’s too much moisture.
This is a tough run for me. All the seeds I’m starting are my oldest. Not my best performance
Can’t really do this now but sometimes with older seeds we use a very fine emery board and sand the sides. Where the seed comes together and would split then soak a day before paper towel.
Also I just had a seed do this was left in paper towel like that for at least 3 days tail got a little longer but just never popped. I took 2 very pointy fillet knifes and put the points in at the split and helped it open. Did not get it all the way open but far enough I thought it could come up out of the dirt. It did after about a week. Thought it was dead. Still had seed attached to one side but did come up. After 2 or 3 days don’t remember knocked the hull of with tweezers. It lived and is growing good. Very determined lil bugger.
U can use pliers or something to crack the shells if u gently squeeze it and not over do it. I did it a few times only once crushed one but the shell was hard asf lol. If u squeeze them just right u’ll hear a crack fairly easy. That’s all they need water will get in and do the rest usually. I’ve had a few that didn’t pop I tried to crack open but still they did nothing
Just now, I did apply some pressure on the two seeds that have done nothing and had a definite crack.
We’ll see!
I would have put it in the soil already I don’t wait for a tail once they crack I plant them.
You don’t want ur paper towel to wet u only want it damp .this is the way i do my seeds i get a great strike rate get ur self some make up removel pads just the cotton pads place a pad on a plate spray with water and then place seeds on pad place another pad on top of the seeds and spray with water cover plate with plastic wrap and put in small holes in plastic wrap and place in dark warm place ur seeds should pop in 24-30 hours
I like it! I just dropped some Durban Nights (DurbanThai x Jack Herer) in some water water this morning. I’ll give that method a shot.
Same thing as paper towel but not as expensive as make up pads are. If u use a heat pad under ur gonna want the paper towel wet as the heat will dry off the paper towel fast if not wet enough. I’ve only had issues with seeds that were a breeders error somehow. Ur way will work just matter of the seeds r viable.
