Seedling/sprout seed cap removal

Alter Jean said:

If you have more... Try starting your seeds in something other than the super soil.. Something inert. The pruple cow It may be too rich for the seedling... I say this because your seedling looks really extremely pale. Bacteria and ferts are good for developed roots but not for nice baby seedlings/

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It is super pale I couldn’t agree with you more. Im using a blurple 450w vipra spectrum with bloom and veg switch, on veg @ the correct distance for seedlings. I sadly don’t have any other fem seeds so I’ll have to start a bag seed up. There’s only one thing that I didn’t do with this seed that I did with my last one that grew and that was starting in a solo cup lmao. It’s very likely that it could be the soil because I encountered crisp tip burns just on the 2nd node of my old grape ox. It asks that i water farther away from the roots at its younger stages so that could be users error.

curious2garden said:

Keep it under low light and keep it quite moist. Usually if I have to remove the Testa I really soak the it down wait an hour or so then slide it off with tweezers.


I don't see any leaf structure they are usually not visible until the cotyledons open. A generic hemostat is a gross instrument however a Tonsil or Boettcher clamp would work but tweezers or fine forceps are better.

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The two little poking things from the second picture look like leaves trying to find where the light is to me.

Would you say these are fine forceps? I call them hemostats



I always changes so the medium changes also because I try to match the regions.

Alter Jean said:

The two little poking things from the second picture look like leaves trying to find where the light is to me.

Would you say these are fine forceps? I call them hemostats

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I always changes so the medium changes also because I try to match the regions.

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I also believe they are leafs. They sure are tiny tho. I’ve been getting away with some tweezers.

Imadethisforthisonequesti said:

I also believe they are leafs. They sure are tiny tho. I’ve been getting away with some tweezers.

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I had to zoom to see the leaves there. Stop touching the plant for a bit; and like the warrior said, low light levels until it's able to root. If the medium is soaked let it dry as best as you can..

Plant seed & be free

Alter Jean said:

The two little poking things from the second picture look like leaves trying to find where the light is to me.

Would you say these are fine forceps? I call them hemostats

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I always changes so the medium changes also because I try to match the regions.

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Those are needle drivers unless there are serrations I can't see, nice job on removing the shell but always disinfect them before use. Bacteria is the major reason for damping off in germinated seedlings. Anyway whatever works and these are pretty resilient plants.

Imadethisforthisonequesti said:

I also believe they are leafs. They sure are tiny tho. I’ve been getting away with some tweezers.

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Alter Jean said:

I had to zoom to see the leaves there. Stop touching the plant for a bit; and like the warrior said, low light levels until it's able to root. If the medium is soaked let it dry as best as you can..

Plant seed & be free

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I don't see leaves even when zoomed and I'm on a 27" 5K display. I see shriveled and shaggy bits of Testa. But it doesn't matter just keeping it in low light and moist and in the future just put them in your medium and wait.

curious2garden said:

I don't see leaves even when zoomed and I'm on a 27" 5K display. I see shriveled and shaggy bits of Testa. But it doesn't matter just keeping it in low light and moist and in the future just put them in your medium and wait.

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I think maybe you are looking at the first pic. They posted a secondary pic and you can see two acute leafs pointing rightwardly if I am not mistaken. And to the left there is a ripped cot. Could just be really high but I swear that's what I see

Alter Jean said:

I think maybe you are looking at the first pic. They posted a secondary pic and you can see two acute leafs pointing rightwardly if I am not mistaken. And to the left there is a ripped cot. Could just be really high but I swear that's what I see

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I’m purty sure he was lookin at the first one. I’ll let ya know if it lives

Alter Jean said:

I think maybe you are looking at the first pic. They posted a secondary pic and you can see two acute leafs pointing rightwardly if I am not mistaken. And to the left there is a ripped cot. Could just be really high but I swear that's what I see

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I was thanks! I went back and checked it out and yup those are the first leaves there. Thank you for clearing that up.

Imadethisforthisonequesti said:

I’m purty sure he was lookin at the first one. I’ll let ya know if it lives

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She was.

curious2garden said:

I was thanks! I went back and checked it out and yup those are the first leaves there. Thank you for clearing that up.

She was.

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Yeh don't mention it. I was confused by the first pic also and then I found the second one.

Ah ! A She-Grower. There needs to be more of those. The plants everyone chases are female so there has to be some kind of secret code you guys do to understand something us men simply, cannot. Or maybe women are better at picking real strong male plants. So this is how they are getting super high THC results...

Maybe you inspire my first journal.

Imadethisforthisonequesti said:

I’m purty sure he was lookin at the first one. I’ll let ya know if it lives

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Looks aside, I am hoping for the best. Stop touching it. Post some more pics if you can maybe the plant will respond