It is easy to blame the breeder for bad seeds. Mature cannabis seeds have high germination rates. So what happened? Many times it is the grower's fault. got high forgot to water, got high watered twice because the plants told you to. To hot, to cold, mold, fungus. All these are the growers responsibility. Ok, I got that squared away. Seeds still didnt sprout. I am going to with the mail system. Seeds could sit in a broke down truck cookin for 16 hours in the sun and then gets delivered in the morning and cooks all day in the mailbox till you get home at 6. Shit happens.
If you're responding to my post I didn't blame anybody. Shipping could definitely have an effect. It could be something on my part, but I'm not a noobie either. I grow year round in Hawaii.
This was my first round in this greenhouse about a month away from harvest. It's only about 2/3rds of the greenhouse. Just crappy old pineapple soil that I amended to my own balancing ratios according to soil test results. No peat moss. No extra aeration besides what is in the dirt naturally. I finished harvesting this about a month ago. Not everything is trimmed up yet, but it should be around 25lbs out of here on the first run. The CEC of the soil was 4.5 when I first amended it before I started building the greenhouse. I amended again when I got the greenhouse built and one more time when I flipped to flowering. The last soil test I sent in came back with a CEC of 16.1. So I was able to turn this soil from a little better than sand to a very respectable soil in regards to cation holding capacity in about 9 months.
Here's my other greenhouse as of this morning 5 weeks into flower in plain old dirt too. The plants are doing really well even considering I got an outbreak of southern blight in here. I lost two plants to it and it's definitely going to affect the yield on a few plants, but it should still be a good overall harvest and this soil is pretty dialed in to my ratios so quality will be top-notch. Most of the plants in here are over 7' tall except for the exceptionally bushy ones, just FYI.
So yeah, it could be my fault on seed germination, but I don't forget to water, or water too much or have crazy temps. In other words, not a rookie. It is a good thing to put the info out there though in case it's a common problem. If everybody's gettting bad germ rates on a certain strain (I'm not saying that I've seen that) then it's good for everybody to know.
Anyway, this is going to be the home of any females I get. If they can get big (considering the amount of time for veg) then they should have their opportunity to do it in here.
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