Ordered Two Seeds, First Failed Germinating. How Should I Germinate the Second?

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d burg

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Hey guys,

A couple weeks ago I ordered a Lowryder 2 and an Easy Ryder seed from Attitude.

I wet two folded paper towels with tap water, placed the LR2 seed between the paper towels and placed it in a zip lock bag and into a dark cupboard. After 36 hours nothing happened, so I moved it to a dark closet and placed it on a laptop to keep it warm. At hour 60, the seed hadn't changed so I decided to just try planting it in moist Fox Farm soil about 1/4 inch deep. Well it's been a week now, and the little seed has done nothing. It's even still hard. I'm guessing I should give up on it? It makes me so disappointed it didn't work. What did I do wrong? Or do you think it wasn't a viable seed from the start?

So, with my only other seed, how should I germinate it to get the most successful results? I will really be sad if this one isn't successful as I'd think I just wasted so much cash on nothing.
 
DoctorGreenThumbs

DoctorGreenThumbs

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Just moisten 2 paper towels, grab a glass and put maybe 1/2 ounce of water in it. Place one seed in each towel and fold it up so the seed will not move. Place the towels into the glass in such fashion that the tips of the paper towels will just barely touch the water and place the glass in a dark place. If the first seed (the bad one) does not crack within 48 hours, write an email to attitude. The second one should crack within 72 hours.

I have a 100% germination rate using this method.
 
jesus of Cannabis

jesus of Cannabis

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the two things you may try is soaking them for 24 hours as said above and keep them in a warm place while inside the zip lock, i keep mine above the cable box and works 100%
 
DoctorGreenThumbs

DoctorGreenThumbs

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FDD also has a thread on this in the noob section. Correction, Widow Maker has a thread on it. It is also a sticky..... How to grow marijauana.
 
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d burg

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Thanks for the suggestion. So you think the first seed that hasn't cracked after a week in soil could still have a chance to germinate?
 
DoctorGreenThumbs

DoctorGreenThumbs

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Possibly, but I wouldn't get my hopes up. It can take up to 5 days and you may have jumped the gun. I would also advise against using tap water as it contains contaminents such as chlorine and flouride.

When you water your plants, make sure you boil the water first and let it cool, or let the water sit in an open container for 48 hours to evaporate these chemicals.

Since you are in a time jam, I'd tell you to use bottled purified water to begin with. I would start the second seed immediately as well.
 
PeacefulKid1992

PeacefulKid1992

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This worked for me here bud, 100% guarantee. Paper towel,fold in half,put the seeds,fold again,wet it but not soaking wet make sure the whole paper wet. put it ziplog bag, keep in dark place and they will sprout. :D
 
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d burg

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Here are two pictures of the first seed I tried to germinate as of today. It used to be a brownish olive color, now after being in the soil for a week it's black. Don't know if that's just the soil that stained it that color or not.



 
PeacefulKid1992

PeacefulKid1992

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d burg said:
Hey guys,

A couple weeks ago I ordered a Lowryder 2 and an Easy Ryder seed from Attitude.

I wet two folded paper towels with tap water, placed the LR2 seed between the paper towels and placed it in a zip lock bag and into a dark cupboard. After 36 hours nothing happened, so I moved it to a dark closet and placed it on a laptop to keep it warm. At hour 60, the seed hadn't changed so I decided to just try planting it in moist Fox Farm soil about 1/4 inch deep. Well it's been a week now, and the little seed has done nothing. It's even still hard. I'm guessing I should give up on it? It makes me so disappointed it didn't work. What did I do wrong? Or do you think it wasn't a viable seed from the start?

So, with my only other seed, how should I germinate it to get the most successful results? I will really be sad if this one isn't successful as I'd think I just wasted so much cash on nothing.
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okay this is not looking so good, i dug up my seed right now that didnt grow,it was there for like 1 week n a half n it was still brown
what type of soil are u using? becuz it could be the soil mix with water that turned the seed dark
 
DadaaP

DadaaP

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jesus of Cannabis said:
the two things you may try is soaking them for 24 hours as said above and keep them in a warm place while inside the zip lock, i keep mine above the cable box and works 100%
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Thats what I did worked like a charm!! Pre soak 22-24 hours luke warm water on water heater. Then paper towels.
 
Freestyla

Freestyla

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Man, I hope this thing takes off soon.

Just something I tried with some Tangerine Dream seeds I got, they are reported as very tough to even germinate, I had some problems with 2 out of 4 and after pre-soaking for 24 hours and then the towel method, it was 4 days on and nothing had happened.
So I simply stuck them both back in distilled water in a shot glass in a warm spot and didn't take them out until they had both cracked. Which they did about 2 days later.
Now most will only advise of 24 hour soaking, I'm just a newbie but found it worked for me. If you left the cracked seed for too long, you could potentially drown it.

Anyway, the Tangerine Dream didn't work out, due to a hotter than normal day which blew the temps out and I lost em all... not good, still learning how to do this but happy to offer an option if all else fails.
 
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gettheledout023

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I just germ so lowryder 2 last week as well..I use the paper towel method and after 6 days of being over my cable.box with nothing happening I started to worry...so this time I rolled the paper towel up into a little square with the.seeds in the middle and two days later the tails came out...give that a try n if that don't work try the sandpaper method. risky but just may be the push your seed needs
 
PeacefulKid1992

PeacefulKid1992

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d burg said:
I used Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil.
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no no bad,i dont reccomend that soil man ur seed is most likely dead. i bought some FFOF the other day and transplanted my plants which are 2 weeks today,it burned the fuck out of em, for seed starters i highly recomend Miracle Gro seed starter soil, reason why is dead and my plants will be dead soon :( is beacuse that shit is too strong for young plants im 95% sure,idk why people brag about it so much but yeah
 
DoctorGreenThumbs

DoctorGreenThumbs

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PeacefulKid1992 said:
no no bad,i dont reccomend that soil man ur seed is most likely dead. i bought some FFOF the other day and transplanted my plants which are 2 weeks today,it burned the fuck out of em, for seed starters i highly recomend Miracle Gro seed starter soil, reason why is dead and my plants will be dead soon :( is beacuse that shit is too strong for young plants im 95% sure,idk why people brag about it so much but yeah
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I have had luck germinating out of Happy Frogs potting soil. It is supposed to be all organic and carry the plants until bloom stage. If my plants do start showing deficiencies I will go buy some compost tea to make to resupply the lost nutes. FFOF is heavily fertilized with chemical nutes. If you plan on germinating with Fox Farms, use Light Warrior first, and then transplant to FFOF when you cycle them to 10 inch pots.

Miracle Gro has problems with producing nute burn on plants as well. I would rather just plant seedlings into sterilized soil from my back yard.
 
mrdrywall

mrdrywall

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PeacefulKid1992 said:
no no bad,i dont reccomend that soil man ur seed is most likely dead. i bought some FFOF the other day and transplanted my plants which are 2 weeks today,it burned the fuck out of em, for seed starters i highly recomend Miracle Gro seed starter soil, reason why is dead and my plants will be dead soon :( is beacuse that shit is too strong for young plants im 95% sure,idk why people brag about it so much but yeah
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i have 10 super lemon haze seedlings straight from adome and rapid rooters in ffof same with the 10 clones and 20 or so odd super skunks nvr burn anything
 
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