New here and have enjoyed reading various posts. So glad to have y'all to come to for advice and moral support.
Started four seeds ( 2- Super Lemon Haze and 2-Great White Shark from Greenhouse Seeds, Feminized Seed ) in 72 degree spring water in a dark cupboard, they didn't sink. Exactly 24 hours later pulled them out of the cupboard and they were all still floating but when I tapped them this time they all sunk immediately. ( Next time should I try tapping them after an hour to get them to soak better? ) and then transferred them to wet paper towel and put them back in the cupboard at 72 degrees. Exactly 24 hours later one of the SLH roots was over an inch long and curved down from where it came out of the seed and pretty straight down in a line for most of its length. The other one was much more curled. The GWS roots were a lot shorter and thicker and much more curled than the SLH.
I gently put them all in premoistened Jiffy Peat Pots, being careful not to damage the roots. They are in a 24X12 "green house" on a head mat at 74 degrees with a hood and Sun Blaster 24 inch grow light with reflector. 24 hours later the one SLH was showing really well the stem curved and trying to uncurl out of the soil and the other seed was just barely a pin point of white in the soil. Well within 12 hours the one that was only a pin point was now standing tall at 2 inches with beautiful green cotyledon and even the first real leaves sprouting from the center of the cotyledon. The one that showed so much promise at the start now appeared to have the seed shell still stuck on it and it appeared to be killing the seedling. BUMMER.
Can anyone tell me if this is going to kill this seedling? IS there ANYTHING I could have done to prevent the shell from sticking? I did remove the shell when it was obvious that the other SLH had surpassed the one with the stuck shell but the cotyledon on it still is all rounded in the seed shape and yellow and hard. it has been 24 hours now and it is not appearing to have made any changes in the last 24 hours since removing the shell. It is not worse or better, pretty much exactly the same.
The GWS seeds seem to be lagging behind the SLH even though they are in the same nursery. I had one the GWS seeds sprout and have a very curly looking stem and very weak stem and the cotyledon on that one was very long narrow on each side but now as it gets more light it is starting to stand up and turn very green
at first it seemed to be possibly too deeply planted so I helped it by gently taking a very few little pieces of peat off it to help it. And it looks now like it helped as it is looking fine. BUT it's sister, like the one SLH seedling, seems to have the shell stuck too,..... so of course I have taking it off gently but it too doesn't appear to be progressing.
Should I have helped them get out of the soil or not? If I had of soaked the seeds better by waiting an hour to tap them down to make them sink so they soaked while sunk for the 24 hours? or soaked them longer than 24 hours? Would that have prevented the stuck shell issue? Any ideas to prevent this in the future?
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Started four seeds ( 2- Super Lemon Haze and 2-Great White Shark from Greenhouse Seeds, Feminized Seed ) in 72 degree spring water in a dark cupboard, they didn't sink. Exactly 24 hours later pulled them out of the cupboard and they were all still floating but when I tapped them this time they all sunk immediately. ( Next time should I try tapping them after an hour to get them to soak better? ) and then transferred them to wet paper towel and put them back in the cupboard at 72 degrees. Exactly 24 hours later one of the SLH roots was over an inch long and curved down from where it came out of the seed and pretty straight down in a line for most of its length. The other one was much more curled. The GWS roots were a lot shorter and thicker and much more curled than the SLH.
I gently put them all in premoistened Jiffy Peat Pots, being careful not to damage the roots. They are in a 24X12 "green house" on a head mat at 74 degrees with a hood and Sun Blaster 24 inch grow light with reflector. 24 hours later the one SLH was showing really well the stem curved and trying to uncurl out of the soil and the other seed was just barely a pin point of white in the soil. Well within 12 hours the one that was only a pin point was now standing tall at 2 inches with beautiful green cotyledon and even the first real leaves sprouting from the center of the cotyledon. The one that showed so much promise at the start now appeared to have the seed shell still stuck on it and it appeared to be killing the seedling. BUMMER.
Can anyone tell me if this is going to kill this seedling? IS there ANYTHING I could have done to prevent the shell from sticking? I did remove the shell when it was obvious that the other SLH had surpassed the one with the stuck shell but the cotyledon on it still is all rounded in the seed shape and yellow and hard. it has been 24 hours now and it is not appearing to have made any changes in the last 24 hours since removing the shell. It is not worse or better, pretty much exactly the same.
The GWS seeds seem to be lagging behind the SLH even though they are in the same nursery. I had one the GWS seeds sprout and have a very curly looking stem and very weak stem and the cotyledon on that one was very long narrow on each side but now as it gets more light it is starting to stand up and turn very green
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Should I have helped them get out of the soil or not? If I had of soaked the seeds better by waiting an hour to tap them down to make them sink so they soaked while sunk for the 24 hours? or soaked them longer than 24 hours? Would that have prevented the stuck shell issue? Any ideas to prevent this in the future?
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