akornpatch
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Anyone use those Jiffy peat pellets? WELL DON'T! What crap they are. IMHO. I thought I had a brilliant idea. I wanted to fire up my grow again and I went to Home dePot. I picked up one of their Jiffy pellet germination thingys. They puff up when you put water on them, you put the seeds barely under the surface, put the lid on and keep it warm. Take the lid off when sprouts come. How hard is that? right?
I put 5 Early Harvest(a friends home brewed beans), 5 Couch Lock, 5 CL X CL(another friends home made beans), 2 BOG SweetCindy99, 5 BOG Grape Punch, 5 BOG LSD, 2 Gypsy "Mystery Medley", and 1 bag seed "tiger stripe". In 2 days all the BOG had sprouted. I popped the top off the germinator (as per instructions). They stayed under CFL's, and in the next three days - 25 of 25 sprouted. I WAS FIRED UP! 100%...couldn't believe it! Never happened before. Everything was going great for a couple days. Then BOOM! They all stopped. What the hell??? I quickly took them out and broke up a couple "pellets". Some of the tap roots weren't burrowing down into the pellets, kinda like if you jamb your finger into the palm of your other hand, and were kind of hardening off or something. Luckily I got the Early Harvest, CLxCL, Sweet Cindy, and LSD out of that shit in time and put them into Black Gold soil (My fav). So now all I have surviving is 1 Early Harvest, 1 LSD and 2 CLxCL. Not too healthy but looking better. I'm heart broken. Killer genetics down the damn toilet. Aaaaaaaaaagh.
I use distilled water, No feed, and plenty of "daylight" fluoro to get them started. I blame it all on the Jiffy fricking pellets. They never dried out, and not soggy either. The PH was a little low actually, but...
Any thoughts from you all? I'm stumped. Back to the water soak and paper towels method, or soil germ for me. Never had this shitty luck before. I think I'll sue Jiffy for murdering my best and only beans. Dammit! Piss me off.
I put 5 Early Harvest(a friends home brewed beans), 5 Couch Lock, 5 CL X CL(another friends home made beans), 2 BOG SweetCindy99, 5 BOG Grape Punch, 5 BOG LSD, 2 Gypsy "Mystery Medley", and 1 bag seed "tiger stripe". In 2 days all the BOG had sprouted. I popped the top off the germinator (as per instructions). They stayed under CFL's, and in the next three days - 25 of 25 sprouted. I WAS FIRED UP! 100%...couldn't believe it! Never happened before. Everything was going great for a couple days. Then BOOM! They all stopped. What the hell??? I quickly took them out and broke up a couple "pellets". Some of the tap roots weren't burrowing down into the pellets, kinda like if you jamb your finger into the palm of your other hand, and were kind of hardening off or something. Luckily I got the Early Harvest, CLxCL, Sweet Cindy, and LSD out of that shit in time and put them into Black Gold soil (My fav). So now all I have surviving is 1 Early Harvest, 1 LSD and 2 CLxCL. Not too healthy but looking better. I'm heart broken. Killer genetics down the damn toilet. Aaaaaaaaaagh.
I use distilled water, No feed, and plenty of "daylight" fluoro to get them started. I blame it all on the Jiffy fricking pellets. They never dried out, and not soggy either. The PH was a little low actually, but...
Any thoughts from you all? I'm stumped. Back to the water soak and paper towels method, or soil germ for me. Never had this shitty luck before. I think I'll sue Jiffy for murdering my best and only beans. Dammit! Piss me off.