[stim]

they do usually take longer in soil the heat mats help. The best soil starters are the ones you find in your soil bin you have forgotten about those are strong starters lol I agree If I buy them its towel for sure.

Originally Posted by positivity

Never again will I dig for a bought seed with a chopstick to see what happened to it.

paper towel..'

If its good it'll go. If its bad it'll stop. If its tired it'll stall. Flip the towel to check...or...play mini excavator

Tried the worm bin vs paper towel recently. Towel won. YMMV

[DsourDog]

I let them float in ro and h2o2 mix over night or 12 hours then right into rapid rooters

[growhigh1233]

interesting thread................. i used to always germ in paper towel............. good method.............. but now i germ in rockwool cubes with a heated propagator..........maybe it was just me been very handed ,but i used to always damage at least a few seeds in the transfer from towel to growing media and so easy to put the paper towel somewhere a little bit to hot and almost cook the seeds or somewhere to cold and slow down germination

with a heated prop, its perfect every time and the germ rates are exceptional ... plus if seeds dont germ its easy to dig them out the rockwool cube, and pop the seed shell open with your teeth, then put them back in the propagator ..........so many seeds iv popped with my teeth have grown perfectly after