hi all, here and hoping more than anything someone can help!
I've tried 2 batches of auto seeds now, all from known places, and all failed and I don't know why!
Background - I grow in a tent with NFT hydro and have done for years but always from cuttings, never seed and never had this much failure! Also, never grown auto but didn't know it existed until a month ago and now really want to try it!
Batch 1-
-15 or so seeds.
-Soaked small rock wool cubes for an hour in 6.0 ph water with some rizo and a small amount of vegging chemicals, EC 1.0.
-Dropped seeds in, lightly covered holes, put in a plastic germination dome, put in the airing cupboard (warm dark room for my American friends!) and left them alone, only checking to see if cubes needed some water.
Result - a couple of seeds popped, most didn't. First popped after 3 days, last one was at 5.. I waited for another 4 days thinking more would come. They didn't.
My diagnosis - room was too hot. Also should have moved the early sprouters as I kept waiting for the others to pop.
I could obviously be wrong!
So making some improvements I went for batch 2
-- I soaked small rock wool cubes in 6.0 ph water with some rizo and a small amount of vegging chemicals, EC 1.0 for 24 hours
- Dropped seeds in, lightly covered holes, put in a plastic germination dome, put in a dark but cooler (compared to above) room.
- after a few days, about 75% had sprouted! Horray!! They were different heights but they were a Mixed batch so put it down to different strains and at this point I was loving life
- not wanting the same issues as last time I then put them in my tent, under lights, 600w veg light (same I use when growing cuttings in rockwool)
- put them on 18 / 6 light cycle with the light about a foot from the dome lid
- over the next 5 days they got worse and worse until they all died
-At first they seemed to like it, the tiny leaves opening properly and going green, I noticed the roots were starting to come out of the bottom of the cubes with some and I thought I had figured it out. But then they started drooping or just dying and I have no clue why.
Is there something glaringly obvious I am doing wrong? Should I use the paper towel method? Should I put under lights sooner? Later? Is my water solution off?
Sorry for the long post but please someone help me. Not joking when I say you'll make my Christmas
I've tried 2 batches of auto seeds now, all from known places, and all failed and I don't know why!
Background - I grow in a tent with NFT hydro and have done for years but always from cuttings, never seed and never had this much failure! Also, never grown auto but didn't know it existed until a month ago and now really want to try it!
Batch 1-
-15 or so seeds.
-Soaked small rock wool cubes for an hour in 6.0 ph water with some rizo and a small amount of vegging chemicals, EC 1.0.
-Dropped seeds in, lightly covered holes, put in a plastic germination dome, put in the airing cupboard (warm dark room for my American friends!) and left them alone, only checking to see if cubes needed some water.
Result - a couple of seeds popped, most didn't. First popped after 3 days, last one was at 5.. I waited for another 4 days thinking more would come. They didn't.
My diagnosis - room was too hot. Also should have moved the early sprouters as I kept waiting for the others to pop.
I could obviously be wrong!
So making some improvements I went for batch 2
-- I soaked small rock wool cubes in 6.0 ph water with some rizo and a small amount of vegging chemicals, EC 1.0 for 24 hours
- Dropped seeds in, lightly covered holes, put in a plastic germination dome, put in a dark but cooler (compared to above) room.
- after a few days, about 75% had sprouted! Horray!! They were different heights but they were a Mixed batch so put it down to different strains and at this point I was loving life
- not wanting the same issues as last time I then put them in my tent, under lights, 600w veg light (same I use when growing cuttings in rockwool)
- put them on 18 / 6 light cycle with the light about a foot from the dome lid
- over the next 5 days they got worse and worse until they all died
-At first they seemed to like it, the tiny leaves opening properly and going green, I noticed the roots were starting to come out of the bottom of the cubes with some and I thought I had figured it out. But then they started drooping or just dying and I have no clue why.
Is there something glaringly obvious I am doing wrong? Should I use the paper towel method? Should I put under lights sooner? Later? Is my water solution off?
Sorry for the long post but please someone help me. Not joking when I say you'll make my Christmas
