Re: Cannafan's Perpetual Grow - Where Everything Changes - Autos - Photos - Seeds & M
The experiment with the hemp seeds is done. The one in the rockwool pushed her way out the top with the shell mostly discarded but still hanging on a bit.
The one in the root plug never pushed upward, but pushed her sideways and it wound up showing out the side of the plug. I let it go to see if it would push the head up at some point, never did. It split the shell inside the plug, and the cotyledon's wound up dying inside the shell, because it never pushed itself upward.
I may try this again, by just pushing those seeds in there and not open either rockwool or plug. Ya got to wonder if the one in the plug wasn't following the path of least resistance because I had opened it before, even though I sealed them back up pretty tightly.
I'll have pictures at some point on the hemp seeds in the tray with different germ methods, but the one that was most successful in the shortest amount of time were the ones planted with one overnight presoak and one day waiting for at least a 1/2" taproot in papertowel. All three of those are up and growing.
The seeds that were not soaked at all and just planted into the soil, two of them never came up or even cracked in the soil. One did, but came up with the shell barely open and the plant died inside the shell.
The seeds that were just soaked overnight and went straight into planting, two came up. One of them was a full week later than the first. The third didn't come up at all.
I like the presoak and wait for taproot better than all of them at this point.