Part 2 - Seeds
I've been a practicing smoker
for many years now and had always thought about growing myself. Whenever I've come across seeds in some good bags I've kept them.
I first tried to germinate some that were known to be from extremely good smoke, but they were also at least 3yrs old. Tried several ways over the course of a week and didn't get any action.
Found a container of some seeds that were from much more recent collections, less than a year for sure. Of the approx. 30 I tried I got 17 to germinate.
My most successful germination method was the moist paper towel in the dark.
The first batch (6 seeds) went into small rockwool cubes that had not been pretreated. None of those sprouted further.
Just after those went into cubes I found info on pretreating the cubes. I bought some rockwool conditioner and got my cubes pretreated for the next batch of seeds. They went in to the tray over the next 2 days in batches of 5. They were in a covered (humidome) tray and I only gave them a little distilled water as needed. The tray was placed under fluoroescent lights on 24hrs.
Due to these coming from bag seed I just numbered each seedling using some plastic tags.
FYI - These seedlings could be either White Rhino, White Russian, AK47, Super Skunk, Mr Nice, Bubbleberry or Great White Shark (those are the names as stated from my connection)
Image of the full tray of seed/seedlings and an image of one seedling that went nutz.