Cracked Seeds

So I'm curious I'm very new to growing and my germination rate with my bag seed has been quite low (around 60%). This is an issue I'm working on please neglect the insults.
In my bag seed however there are quite a few cracked seeds. Out of curiosity I removed the hearts from any cracked seeds. and put them in wet jiffy pods. surprisingly a few days later 100% of the 8 cracked seeds had sprouted (creating an issue of too many plants lol) But still I was quite shocked by this and am wondering if anyone else has any word on why this is working better. I realize its most likely that the hearts are just getting better water and getting less resistance to the soil from the seed. Is this an actual method of saving cracked seeds or should you germinate them normally?

-TokyWoky

I would recommend that you germinate normally. There are a few time proven methods and this is not one them.

Good luck...

KISS

That's a risky method , but with free bag seed, yeah go for it.

I know its a risky method and I'm not saying to do it to every seed but with damaged seeds all of my seeds are sprouting with this method. Whereas for some reason my "healthy looking" seeds are only sprouting 2/3 of the time

TokyWartooth said:

I know its a risky method and I'm not saying to do it to every seed but with damaged seeds all of my seeds are sprouting with this method. Whereas for some reason my "healthy looking" seeds are only sprouting 2/3 of the time

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I think it is cool you tried it . I've rotted more than a few seeds that this method would have probably worked on.

lightly soak distilled water in a paper towel fold it losely, put it in a ziplock bag and then place it under your cable box to one side. keep it there for 24hours and you should see sprouts.

CanniHelpYou said:

lightly soak distilled water in a paper towel fold it losely, put it in a ziplock bag and then place it under your cable box to one side. keep it there for 24hours and you should see sprouts.

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You can watch it grow and if you don't like the strain, just change the channel lol.

CanniHelpYou said:

lightly soak distilled water in a paper towel fold it losely, put it in a ziplock bag and then place it under your cable box to one side. keep it there for 24hours and you should see sprouts.

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Ive done things exactly like that or similar to that and had ok results this is only for cracked seeds really...

same thing for cracked seeds

TokyWartooth said:

Ive done things exactly like that or similar to that and had ok results this is only for cracked seeds really...

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