whats the best way to tear open the rockwool without harming seedling?

about to start the 5th night since germinated

all but one haven't budged an inch, time to manually investigate I think

try and hold back man - but if you cant - super cautiously!
never know which way the roots have decided to wander and damage to them will just mean a longer wait . . luckily only fuffed the 1 myself so far , also gave cutting the cubes in half a try so it wont take as long before you know the roots are growing, it helps me stay away a bit!

with anyluck the weed wise men/women will pass through and give better insight

I did it very carefully, it is like they were in suspended animation...... I thought maybe the temps in the box being in the mid 60's might be what slowed them down. A tip or two was brown, but I transferred all to new water and new rockwool and planted 3 seeds without checking for viability since viability doesn't seem to mean shit

hahaha - i know the feeling dude , id had non germed pop up in a couple days and pre germed take over a week . . . mother nature , like many of the fairer sex sometimes needs to get her priorities straight!

had better results with less water logged wool aswell , i wet them let em dry and then respray just the bottom half so the roots have to do the work.
Keep us updated dude

hmm maybe the water is too high? I have the water almost at the top of the rock cubes, I will say this I DO NOT think I killed any of the 6 seed I put them in better looking rockwool and noticed a brown staining on the sides of the rockwool. This is weird cause the water still tests great. We will see what happens. I have 11 seedlings going in a small box to grow lol if I get half females I am screwed but thats a problem I am hoping to have. I have 4 seeds left in a tube, if this grow doesn't work I will take a month off and try again in march with a new strain from HGS