so hey .. ive been harvesting every 40 days for the past year and a half. i run 12/12 from seed, 2 plants every 30 days. but thats besides the point at the moment. im having a serious issue here. I DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK MY PROBLEM IS. im already 2 WEEKS behind now because the seeds ive planted last week AND the seeds i planted the week before ... NONE of them sprouted. they ALL germinated in the glass cup of h20 .. and of course i carefully placed them in my solo cup of 50/50 coco/perlite like i always do, and put them under the 6500k T5 to keep warm like ALWAYS and NOOOOTHING. not one of FOUR each week. so EIGHT seeds wasted. idk wtf im doing wrong man. ive done this every month DOZENS of times. im getting very annoyed~!! ..everyone has their own little tricks when popping beans. I drop in tap h2o until shell splits and tap root pops out. then into a wet paper towel and into a ziplock baggie set in cupboard above fridge for 2-3 days. not letting paper towel dry out. then into my R/R plugs and into my seed propagator/humidome/heatmat/T8 6500k 24/7.
thank you so much for your input man. sooo .. your doing the whole humidity dome, heat mat and everything aye? i always figured the dome wasnt really necessary .. but the heat mat i can definitely assume that would help alot .. but im afraid that w the lights .. AND the mat its gonna be WAY too hot. and im not going to be able to "burp" or open the humidity dome a few times throughout the day so.. im worried the humidity will be too high for them to survive ?? what do you think about them 2 issues.65 is kinda low for germinating seeds. I grow in my basement, and popped germ'd seeds down there. I used a 6500k t8 24/7, dome, heat mat (with towel between the tray and mat), and left the dome closed. opening 2x daily for misting and fresh air.
imo, your lights off temps are too low. I try for a constant 80* for germinating seeds until at least the first few set of leaves. then the heat mat gets removed, and the vents opened a tad.
yeah man i hear ya. i do the same method every month. i leave em in a lil longer then 12hrs but i always go straight to soil before 24hrs, whether cracked or not and i usally get a 100% success as well. maybe a 9 outta 10 sometimes but ive always been very successful. im VERY surprised to have failed so hard the past 2 weeks with 8 fucking fem seeds (4 a week .. and a very expensive fail as you know) but i really think its attributed to the major fluctuation in temp ive been having lately day vs night. im not sure but ill try again tuesday and i hope i can get back on track. im REALLY off schedule now and thats going to cost me muccccch mooolahI have tried several techniques and have had the best luck(so far, only on second grow) with soaking the seeds for 12 hours in room temp water then strait into soil, cracked or not. Every plant I did this to has germinated and is growing well! That's 100% success with 4 fem autos and two fem photos. =P
They were both in the water for the same amount of time its the one on the left before I put them in to the soil?.