[Big Bud Bear]

I germed 20 seeds. All came out with the tap root. I then placed them all in rockwol and place in a tray with a dome and some distilled water. With a light a few feet above. 3 grew and died days later, the others the tails just turned a dark color and they stopped growing.

I have a good bit more seeds, all good seeds, but want to correct my methods so i dont lose them. I ordered a heating bad, and and a new tray with a lid that has vent doors you can open and close. My qeustions are the following.

What is the ideal lighting, humidity and temputure to germanate and prodoce healthy vegging plants.

Everyone has different methods they've used - tried and true.

Here is my method. I germinate the seeds via the paper towel method. I put a wet (room temp) paper towel on a small saucer. Place seeds on wet towel. Then I add another wet paper towel on top of the other towel, covering the seeds. Then I cover it with another saucer. Place it in a warm cabinet - germination in 24-48 hours average. ***note: I never bothered adjusting the ph of the water I germinate them in. I know it comes out of my faucet at 7.8

Once my seeds popped and have the tap root poking out. I plant them into soil (not touching the tap root, ever) and water them (no nutes or additives - just plain nuetral pH'd (6.8 - 7 range) water.)

My guess is lack of heat and too much water in the rockwool.

Soak them in your distilled water, but then shake the heck out of them to get all the excess water out, and then plant your seedlings.

This happened to me a couple of times as I initially bought a lot of rockwool. I found it to be a pain and now use Rapid Rooters. Plug and play.

[pieceofmyheart]

I do exactly what gangalord does. But I plant them in my non additive soil mix, keep them just moist not dry or soaked until they take hold and establish themselves.
I don't add any nutes or anything for at least 2 weeks.

Also BBB, you said you keep the light a few feet above? I keep my inches above.

[Gangabiss]

Good advice there GanjaLord...the only recommendation I have for you is that you might be better off soaking the soil before planting the seeds due to the possibility of the water pushing them further down than is ideal.


I place seeds in a shotglass of luke warm water for 24 hrs or until the taproots have emerged.
I then poke a little hole in the pre-watered soil with the sharp end of a pencil (makes a good shape to snugly fit the seed in the bottom) place the seeds in (taproot facing down) very gently and cover with excess souil around the top then press lightly on top to make sure it's all packed nicely around your seed with no air pockets.
I then trickle a little bit of water over where the seed is just to make sure it's nice and damp and it also helps ensure the soil 'sticks' all around the seed.
Your seed will be around 1cm deep by the end and should pop up within 2-7 days depending on seed viability (use a mister and spray soil surface a few times if the top starts to dry out).
I keep my pots on a tray on top of my ballast just to keep them at that temperature just in case they need a little extra push to emerge.

[Big Bud Bear]

my heating pad should be coming today, I assume that would be good to use when germing?

[Gangabiss]

Yep should work fine.

I need to get me one of those.

I found germing in rockwool cubes harder, it worked but just putting your germinated seed into soil after doing what GanjaLord said is easier imo. Good Luck!

[Big Bud Bear]

Originally Posted by dre86

I found germing in rockwool cubes harder, it worked but just putting your germinated seed into soil after doing what GanjaLord said is easier imo. Good Luck!

thats an issue as i am doing a hydro setup so soil is out of the picture. I have transfered plants from soil to hydro before and they got very stressed. Some died

[Big Bud Bear]

I just dumped ten bubblelicious seeds in a shot glass