Did I Cook My Seeds?

justatoker

New Member
OK, heres the story..

I put some greenhouse WW fem seeds and some white label NL fem seeds into folded wet paper towels and then into a deep tupperware container w/ a lid and then placed them into a dresser on top of a heating pad..I checked them about 12 hours later and 4/5 of each strain had cracked open enough that you could see the white taproot, but they had not came all the way out.. I felt the towels and they actually felt kind of cool so I turned the heating pad to high,moistened the paper towels a lil more and out them back.. I checked them when I woke up today and the towels were really warm..But not hot.. It wasnt hot to the touch , but really warm though.. I checked the seeds and they seemed to have stopped or maybe even gone into reverse.. I am concerned that they may have gotten too warm and died. Could this have likely happened? I could still see the white of the taproots through the small cracks so I went ahead and prepped jiffy 7 peat pellets and planted the ones that were cracked and placed them into there dome and into the dresser onto the heat pad on low..the dome is very humid lots of condensation.. I squeezed the excess water from the pellets and fluffed them back up before planting the seeds into them..Im just worried that I maye have "cooked" them with my heating pad.. Has anyone done this before and killed there seeds?
 

smokinHerbOnDaCurb

Well-Known Member
OK, heres the story..

I put some greenhouse WW fem seeds and some white label NL fem seeds into folded wet paper towels and then into a deep tupperware container w/ a lid and then placed them into a dresser on top of a heating pad..I checked them about 12 hours later and 4/5 of each strain had cracked open enough that you could see the white taproot, but they had not came all the way out.. I felt the towels and they actually felt kind of cool so I turned the heating pad to high,moistened the paper towels a lil more and out them back.. I checked them when I woke up today and the towels were really warm..But not hot.. It wasnt hot to the touch , but really warm though.. I checked the seeds and they seemed to have stopped or maybe even gone into reverse.. I am concerned that they may have gotten too warm and died. Could this have likely happened? I could still see the white of the taproots through the small cracks so I went ahead and prepped jiffy 7 peat pellets and planted the ones that were cracked and placed them into there dome and into the dresser onto the heat pad on low..the dome is very humid lots of condensation.. I squeezed the eccess water from the pellets and fluffed them back up before planting the seeds into them..I am just worried that I maye have "cooked" them with my heating pad.. Has anyone done this before and killed there seeds?
I dont think you c an cook your seeds but take a guess how hot is it more than 80 degrees?
 

justatoker

New Member
I put a reg old non digital thermometer into the tupperware container when I noticed the high temps for about 10 min and took it out and It was about 98 - 100 degres. but I turned the heating pad down to low after that.. they were prolly exposed to 100 degree temps for about 4 hrs im guessing.. Did they get too hot?
 

smokinHerbOnDaCurb

Well-Known Member
I put a reg old non digital thermometer into the tupperware container when I noticed the high temps for about 10 min and took it out and It was about 98 - 100 degres. but I turned the heating pad down to low after that.. they were prolly exposed to 100 degree temps for about 4 hrs im guessing.. Did they get too hot?
Alright man dont freak out any thing past 85 degrees is too hot but they havnt germinatrd before this happened right? I maesn were the taproots out when this exposure happened?
 

smokinHerbOnDaCurb

Well-Known Member
Just to let you know you dont have to have constant heat. Seed will germinate at room temperature. Its a weed it will grow in spite of you.
 

justatoker

New Member
Man I really hope your right.. But the same shit happened to >THIS< dude and none sprouted .. Damn damn damn.. I can just hope and wait now..this is the 3rd order of seeds this has happened to.. this first time I think it happened because I left them between 2 saucers in p-towels on top of a floor heating vent w/ a towel in between. SO I go out and buy a heating pad so I can better control the heat, and this happens. Im not sure that there dead yet.. But they did get pretty warm ( around 100f ) for about 4hrs before I noticed the pad was too hot..for the first 12 hrs i had the pad on low but it seemed too cool and then i turned it up on high for about 4 hrs and until I noticed the temps and the stopped/slowed taproot development. Dammit.
 
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