Germinating Feminized Seeds - Abnormalities

stoopy

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I germinated ten feminized Early Skunk seeds from Sensi last Thursday 4/2 - To my surprise they are taking a long time to sprout, this is my first go with feminized seeds as I was curious to see how they do but seem to be slow responders, on Saturday on sprouted but it seemed to have the "tail" root pointing upwards with no leaf lobes, just a skinny pointy needle like root, I then dug it up to find the seed pod attached and re-planted with the pod up, I realize that sometimes some beans can take up to 10/12 days to germinate but I've never had seeds take this long to sprout, today is day 4, I wish I would have taken a picture of the protruding vertical root, very strange, anyone else had similar problems with feminized seeds, my germination method is more than sufficient, I only use aquarium water.
 

stoopy

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Here is a picture of this particular feminised strain of Early Skunk that was germinated last Thursday as mentioned above, this was turned upside down after I realized the sprout was shooting the primary root upwards... WTF?! The others are still swelling and should sprout soon but the are responding very slowly and some of them are spiraling around themselves and seem to be confused, I never touched them, just left them since Thursday, this is my first experience with fem seeds, look at the image, you can see that the pod which should become the two lobe leaves is still unified, it look like a little cobra, and the tissue seems to be tough as leather, I'll be documenting these beans further, germinated hundreds of seeds with 99% successm these are strange, screwed up genetics? Who knows, who has experience with fem beans?! P.S. My conditions for germinating are perfect and just did a batch of ten 2 weeks ago that are already ready to go outdoors, these feminised are an experiment and I thought they would save me some time with sexing but they're freakin my out.
 

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middlefingerhere

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I got a fem Jack herer that looked the same way as of yesterday. Just checked it and its pointing straight up now and starting to appear like its softening and getting ready to open. I'm a little worried myself can you give me an update on yours
 
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