sprouted??

my seed popped through the soil today but it still has the shell on it....i dont see any leafs what should i do?

It happens. You can, 1. Leave it to see if the seedling throws off the testa.
2. Leave it for a day or two and try an remove it by moistening the seed testa by balancing a drop of water on top and softening the seed coat. This can be done several times before trying to carefully pry the testa apart with tweezers, tooth pics, etc. Be careful not to injure the cotyledons held within. My own theory on why this happens is because of a sprouted seed being planted a little to shallow, or planted in a heavily airated soil mix, thus the testa or, (seed coat) does not receive enough moisture to soften enough for the cotyledons to push it off.

hmm alright, I think i will give it till tomorrow when i wake up. I saw the seed at top of soil for this whole day but it finally came above soil mid afternoon, so ill give it till tomorrow afternoon and if nothing happens ill try and soften it up and get it off. Thanks a ton man!

I give mine mistings whenever I walk by to soften the shell. I get impatient after a day or two and pull out the tweezers. My method is to spray it several times over an hour then give a little lift with tweezers. If it slides right off good, if not go back to misting. I use the tweezers on the split sides so it forces the seed further apart

Okay, I'll try the misting as well.. Hopefully it fell off by the time i check on it!

This is the first time it happened, the seeds are about a year old as well so that may have something to do with it.

just let er go, mother nature will handle it for you...

it really should be fine without any help, but if you want to mess with her, go for it, just be careful. It really has nothing to do with the age of your seeds as it is just a random occurance. Good luck

I just barely touched the casing and it fell off, so hopefully I start to see some leaves petty soon. It's about half an inch out of the soil!

Nice! Yeah n a few days 2 single blade leafs will show. After that 2 3 bladed ones then 5s and so on. Sounds like ur doin ok for now. Keep it up

Thanks man, I did a grow before this but in that grow it never took so long to germinate or sprout so I was worried haha

Just following up on earliers post... It finally spread out and has 4 tiny leafs