A customer has a question and I hope we can get some opinions on it, thanks.
" Initially I used one of those seed starter kits. Basically it consisted of those compressed peat moss pellets that expand when you add water to them. It had a plastic tray that housed the expanded pellets with a clear plastic cover. Basically a mini greenhouse. They were kept moist for several weeks and nothing happend. I poked around to uncover the seeds and saw that some of them had cracked open but no tails formed. So i took them all out and moved them into potting soil. Again, keeping them moist. No change after a couple weeks. Now I have them in moist paper towels in the dark - in the window sill for warmth. It has been 48 hours and not much has changed. Should do you still think I should drop them in a glass of water ? Or should I keep them in the paper towel method for another day ?"
I think at this point you may be out of luck. Also, though it may not have been the cause, I suggest that you don’t handle them so much. The shells get soft and you can squash one with as much effort as it would to crush cotton candy. I’ve germinated using those peat moss disks, in water, paper towels, and just plain stuck the seed into a bucket and watered it. All methods work. But if you don’t have tails within 24 hours and/or none after 3 days, chances are you’re not going to. But, I’ve seen seeds finally germinate after two weeks. But they also didn’t grow well and obviously weren’t meant to live.
Its not the method, unless you screw it up, it’s the seeds. A lot can happen at any point from how they were produced, how they were handled, and if anything happened while in transit. Ever seen the inside of a cargo plane? Ain’t no AC and it gets really hot in the cargo hull.
The good news is that ILGM makes good on their promise and if you send back the seeds they’ll send you new ones. Takes a while. 5-7 weeks to get there. I just germinated 10 of the new seeds they sent and 8 had tails after 30 hours.
So dig them up and reply them back through the same email you got your order confirmation to get instructions on how to ship them. Hope this helps.
I drop the seeds in soil and had sprouts within 4 days, some 5 days. I Germinated 7 seeds and 6 popped, so very successful method… just use soil. I’m new and I have 6 healthy girls growing fast! I’ll use soil every time
@jrgs3365… I did same exact thing you just described… The little jiffy pot greenhouse… I germinated 3 seeds in distilled water, watered the expanding peat pods, put my seeds in them and nothing ever happened? What did was added too much water to pods and then left them too moist in little greenhouse… So now, I won’t ever use those pods again…I now leave seed in water sfor 24-28 hrs and them they go straight into soil… Usually they sprout in 3-4 days… I don’t do the paper towel method… Which is fine but I think the peat pods keep it way to wet for seeds… Just my opinion
I do the 24 hour in purified water in the dark and then put in soil and mist the soil 5 or 6 times a day. 3 or 4 days you should have a seedling. I’m 5 for 5 this year and was only 2 for 8 last year.
Im 9/9 on germ. Just soak in water for 24-48 hours untill i see slight sign of tap root. I presoak the jiffy gerrm pods which is very similar to what u have. Then i used a straw to make a hole roughly a 1/4 in deep into the soil, place seed in hole with tap root down and lightly cover back up. After that i mist twice a day one in morning one at night. So far the longest out of my 9 took 3 days to sprout and 5 out of 9 we nasty old bag seeds.
Yeah ok, but don’t need to overthink it. Put little hole in soil, drop seed in, cover and mist few times a day, 4 days at most to sprout. This method works every time and not too complicated
