Quick question, could I say while the seed is germinating have it say in a plastic dome with rockwool in a room. Like anywhere knowing that the tv and say bedroom light will go on and off? It will have a heat pad and water all that good stuff. Just want to make sure if it has to be in complete darkness before it sprouts.
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Hemp4Victory
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I am by no means an expert but my understanding is that complete darkness is essential. If you don't mind possibly wasting a couple seeds it would be interesting to run an experiment. Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge will chime in soon.
1982grower
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def should be dark. when a seed falls from a mj plant normally thousands fall. out of all of those seeds only several germ. those are most likely the ones that get stepped on by animals and basically planted. the ones that are above the ground dye. no light till they sprout. Imagine if a mj plant dropped its seeds and they all sprouted. ddddaaaammmmnnnn that would b alot of pot
1982grower
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thats what i do
Brick Top
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Do seeds from plants in the wild germ in complete 24 hour per day darkness?
It is not essential, it is only better.
1982grower
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fore sure anything can happen. I barely use paper towels as i find them a waste of time. if you are using quality seeds just plant in peat puck and you should get near 100% germ rate otherwise seeds prob werent great.
Brick Top
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The very first time I grew pot was an outdoor grow. I had built up a cigar box full of Colombian Gold bag-seeds and I grabbed a handful and just tossed then onto an area of pea gravel where a dog run used to be. In days plants were popping up all over the area and they were as thick as fleas on a Georgia hound dog’s back.
I did not throw thousands and way more than just a few germed and grew, there were way, WAY more.
Many seeds in the wild that drop end up as food for small animals so they never survive until the following spring to have a chance to germ.
Several grows back I had just put a pack of beans between moist paper towels that I had placed in a plastic container that had a clear snap-lock lid. My phone rang and I set down the beans on top of my coffee maker that is right in front of a window that faces South and slightly West and gets direct sun all afternoon and reflected light all day. The phone call was from an old friend that I hadn’t spoken to in years and we talked for several hours and by the time I hung up I totally forgot about the seeds.
I somehow never noticed them when I was in the kitchen later in the day but I did spot them the next morning when I went to make some coffee. I thought oops … but before I went to place them in a warm dark location I thought I would let a little fresh air in and while doing that take a peak.
All five beans had popped already and had tiny taproots. I had placed them in the moist paper towel around mid-morning the day before so they were in light, some of it direct for hours, in a container with a clear plastic lid and again in light for close to half the total period of time before I found them and looked at them the next morning and again all five had popped and started to push out taproots.
Darkness is beneficial, it is better but it is not imperative.
For that fact neither is warmth or even good clean proper pH water.
Living alone I find myself going through patterns were at times I will revert to my younger years and let my home look like a frat house full of slobs. I will put things in my refrigerator, often times uncovered, and forget about them for so long that they mutate and are just about capable of walking out on their own because they have become some new form of life. When I finally disgust myself I will clean out my refrigerator and will find something jammed in the back that looks like a Chia Pet and after staring at it long enough and looking at the container I will realize that it is what is left from last Thanksgiving’s turkey.
Well a while back I thought I would pop some beans that I had stored in the bottom bin of my refrigerator. They were not in small bags but instead wrapped in plastic and taped closed and then taped to a thick heavy piece of paper that was folded like a Hallmark Card.
When I opened the bin I had to remove a grocery store plastic bag that once had some type of vegetable in it. What had once been some type of vegetable had since turned into an almost black goo that then lined the bottom of the bin. Laying in the thick almost black primordial ooze stuck to the bottom of the bin like wallpaper to a wall was the thick heavy folded piece of paper with the folded tapes pouches of plastic with the beans in them. One pack remained dry and was germed and grew. The almost black toxic appearing goo had worked its way into the rest of the folded plastic pouches and the beans had popped and started to grow taproots and then evidently died.
So there is a case of beans popping in some sort of slim that had the EPA known about it they would likely have sealed off my home for six months while a hazardous waste team cleaned it from top to bottom and in temperatures that were borderline freezing since I keep my refrigerator so cold that at times I will get a thin layer of slush on things like iced tea.
After those two experiences just go ahead and try to tell me that you have to have total darkness and you have to have warmth. I can tell you right now that attempting to do so would be a wasted effort.
Yes I agree that it is much better to have germing beans in darkness and in a warm location but due to accidental unintentional unplanned experimentation I know for a fact that beans do not absolutely have to have total darkness nor warmth to pop.
1982grower
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oh yah for sure. just saying that most don't in the wild. 1 plant drops 1000s of seeds into a small diameter and its not even possible fore 90% to grow. I'm not disagreeing in any way. you got good germ rates because although not perfect conditions they were prob decent. no growing grass around area and decent dirt. just didn't want to name all the ways seeds get trampled in the wild. seeya. good luck man
Skunk Baxter
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I don't believe it makes any difference at all. I germinate in paper towels and plastic bags right in my living room, in bright indirect sunlight, and often get 100% germination rates.
1982grower
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yah good seeds should germinate in low light no prob. def. but darkness can't hurt