To anybody Germ'n in paper towels

These 4 plants are the same strain, they were given the same light, soil, and environment. They were grown exactly the same. The 3 plants on the left were paper toweled, the one on the right was pushed into the dirt 3 days AFTER the ones in the paper towels. Apparently it makes a difference. Good luck everybody

You also have the 3 smaller ones in smaller pots, lol. I'm sure a strain could have plants show different characteristics then each other anyhow, not sure why or how the paper towel thing came into play, perhaps it was people growing without soil? With soil they would have presumed a seed would germinate anyway, with whatever rate increased that could be attributed to some germination outside soil. Don't really know or care, they both seem to work good. Did you just happen to transplant the soil based one for kicks or? Just curious...

The soil based one was in the same size pot it just out grew it much faster, the others are being transplanted this weekend because they're just getting to that stage now,

I know pot size will do that. It could also mean that the bigger plant is a male since they seem to grow faster.

when i was younger i had the best of luck at power towel method, now i cant pop a seed for nothing that way. i use little tiny tupperware containers with water in them marked and put on top of my computer tower in the dark...

RodriguesIV said:

I know pot size will do that. It could also mean that the bigger plant is a male since they seem to grow faster.

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ive found this statement true.. usually the one that grows fast, with the most spacing between the nodes turns out male generally for me

Males grow faster? I've never heard that before

Dr.Pot said:

These 4 plants are the same strain, they were given the same light, soil, and environment. They were grown exactly the same. The 3 plants on the left were paper toweled, the one on the right was pushed into the dirt 3 days AFTER the ones in the paper towels. Apparently it makes a difference. Good luck everybody

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Yepper. Pre germing using any method only sets you back, not forward. Pop em right in the dirt as nature intended and you will get out of the gate faster most every time. Good for you realizing this and sharing it with others.
And I see many trying to assign reasons, bullshits reasons at that, of why the planted bean is ahead of the PT beans. Dont listen to them. They know not of what they speak.

Anyone who started regular seed outdoor, knows that males are grow faster than the females ...

Dr.Pot said:

The soil based one was in the same size pot it just out grew it much faster, the others are being transplanted this weekend because they're just getting to that stage now,

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One reason for this is the lack of trauma to the fine roots hairs by planting them directly in the medium. When transferring a bean that has been germed in a paper towel to the medium those fine hairs are damaged and must regrow/repair before any further growth can take place.

Tomiie18 said:

Anyone who started regular seed outdoor, knows that males are grow faster than the females ...

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They do not grow faster. They are just generally taller and lankier plants than females. Count the nodes and you will see thay are really not growing faster, just taller.

This kind of sounds like something that happened to me when I was experimenting.

I had 4 plants that when I transplanted, I heard a "popping" noise from root damage. I wanted to see how much it would slow down their growth (the roots broke when they were like 1 inch tall, with only the cotyledons and first leaves).

So I put them in pots and kept them separate. After 3-5 days they were half the size of the other plants. Then about 6 days after they started exploding and passed up the other plants.

Dammit!! Just checked my og kush and its the beginning of day 4 and still no sprout!! My girlfriends even more pissed than I am. It is bullshit that you pay damn near $20 a seed just to have them not do what they are supposed to, and then have the company not back the product.

I mean, they say they can't sell them for germination purposes, even if they are selling them to a place where its legal. But isn't that the reason they are allowed to sell them, for the time that comes when they CAN be legally germinated? So if we can now, why can't they ACTUALLY start guaranteeing some seeds.

Still got time