sprouting taking forever - first grow
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bballdude692006
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i live a 25 minute drive away from work so that excuse doesnt really fly. would be kool if it did though. oh and just for clarification, i did germinate them but am having trouble getting them to sprout from the soil and it has been like 8 or 9 days now. is the overall consensus to take them out from the grow area and put them on something warm in darkness until the first sprout takes place, or leave them in the grow room on top of a heating pad under the lights?
lights arent gonna help right now... I forget how many u said u had sprouted (and too lazy to look back) but if it were me Id get em on that heating pad and take one, get a pencil, chop stick or something of that nature and lightly pull away a layer of soild at a time to see if anything is happenin...lookin for a long white tap root not the seed itself... if the seed is ontop or near the taproot your still in lck and just burried em too far if you see tap root in an arch and the seed casing looking like tis growing down instead of up you got probs....try to gently lift the seed casing side so its pointing up. Ive had some break the soil arched but I dont bury that deep... how deep do u think you burried yours?
bballdude692006
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i orginally had them like 1/2" to 1" below soil but ive been peeling it back so that there is only like 1/8" to a 1/4" left on top of seed casing. yeah i guess ill just take them back (oh btw i have 2 going for personal use) out and put them on top of my cable box like when i germinated. Thanks ill keep it updated and if this works then lowryder you are def getting some +rep. thanks dude
dont really care about rep to be honest but thanks for the notice...
BTW I didnt mean take them all out and all the way out of the soil, sorry for the confusion. I meand slighly pull away the soil and check the tap root if its getting bigger its doing ok I only suggested looking cause I have had 1 or 2 head the wrong way and bury themself instead of break ground. When I finally did "re plant" they were stunted but took off and caught up later (makes for some weird 1st leafs though). More or less what I was suggesting was if they were headed the wrong direction aim em in the right direction but dont pull em all the way out. That being said 1 I tried to fix actually broke its tap root (still had 1/4" left) so I put it back in germ and then back in the soil after the tap root got bigger...
I would only look at 1 though and leave the others alone unless u see a problem with the 1 u look at. 1" is def to far IMHO I usually put 1/4 no more less I have a huge tap root.
BTW I didnt mean take them all out and all the way out of the soil, sorry for the confusion. I meand slighly pull away the soil and check the tap root if its getting bigger its doing ok I only suggested looking cause I have had 1 or 2 head the wrong way and bury themself instead of break ground. When I finally did "re plant" they were stunted but took off and caught up later (makes for some weird 1st leafs though). More or less what I was suggesting was if they were headed the wrong direction aim em in the right direction but dont pull em all the way out. That being said 1 I tried to fix actually broke its tap root (still had 1/4" left) so I put it back in germ and then back in the soil after the tap root got bigger...
I would only look at 1 though and leave the others alone unless u see a problem with the 1 u look at. 1" is def to far IMHO I usually put 1/4 no more less I have a huge tap root.