Seeds: Germination or bang them straight in soil?

[ak90]

ive just recived my ordered seeds, 3x purple haze and 3 x chocolope, all feminized. ive seen a few vids on germination but also people say its easy just putting them straight into damp soil (coco in my case) .. just wondering other peoples opinions and advice on germination into CoCo coir.

AK.

 

[ak90]

bump. come on lads

 

[BleedsGreen]

I like to float them for a day, but a lot of other people don't.

 

[Izoc666]

I lke to soak seeds overnight to get hydrated before plant direct to the soil, 100% success.

peace

 

[CyberSmoke]

I drop in damp soil never float or germinate in a paper towel. Can't say 100% but very very close to that, and the seed is in the container it will live out its life, no transplanting ever.

Good luck on yours!!

 

[kang420]

Straight into soil or coco, you do not need to soak seeds unless they are very old i.e 10+ years old. it is also faster as the tap root starts going into the soil right away i find its 24 hours quicker with popping them into soil. make sure your coco has been charged with about 0.40EC of a light food before planting then drop the seed in the damp coco and just slightly cover with the wet coco, every 12 hours or so spray a little more of the light food mix to keep it moist, if your using soil not coco just use water with no food

 

[ak90]

i tried soaking before.. and it didnt work, my mate told me every time hes dropped his into damp soil his has sprouted. but ive also read bad things about it.

 

[ak90]

Straight into soil or coco, you do not need to soak seeds unless they are very old i.e 10+ years old. it is also faster as the tap root starts going into the soil right away i find its 24 hours quicker with popping them into soil. make sure your coco has been charged with about 0.40EC of a light food before planting then drop the seed in the damp coco and just slightly cover with the wet coco, every 12 hours or so spray a little more of the light food mix to keep it moist, if your using soil not coco just use water with no food

what do you mean by charged with about 0.40EC of food?

 

[kang420]

what do you mean by charged with about 0.40EC of food?

You said you were using coco if thats the case i assume you already know that coco does not contain any nutrients like soil therefor you need to charge the coco with a light nutrient feed of 0.40 EC. what nutrients are you using for coco? if its canna A&B mix up a light mix of 0.4ec and when you get past seedling stage you will need to up the EC, also with coco you will need to feed every water as coco has no nutrients, also make sure everytime you feed to let about 10% runoff to wash out the salt build up, and unless your using strange nutrients ive never heard of youl want to keep the ph at 5.8 for coco

 

[ak90]

yeah im gona try things a little bit differently. cheers for the advice tho mate.

 

[no clue]

I lke to soak seeds overnight to get hydrated before plant direct to the soil, 100% success.

peace

This is exactly the method described by Uncle Ben. I have been doing it this way also and it works flawlessly every time

 

[Mcwhippin420]

Normally i used the paper towel method...the last blue dream seed i planted i just dropped it straight into some soil lol...had a male and ripped it out , made new hole dropped it in. Next thing ya know there she is

 

[NnthStTrls]

Straight into soil. 99% of the time it works every time.