Seed to Hydro dilema.........

Ok here's the issue...

I use an aeroponic system for vegitation, and an ebb & flow for bloom (multiple grow rooms)....

I just "wiped uot" my garden to start over, do some deep cleaning etc. I also wanted to introduce a couple new strains, and be done with what I had been growing for the past couple years...

Now I have some White Widow seeds and want to integrate these into my hydro system, unfortunately the only way i can see doing this is starting in soil and cloe into the aeroponic system..

I would prefer avoiding soil if possible.

If you have any great ideas on avoiding soil from seed, i would greatly appreciate your input...

Thank you...

~cheers

There are alot of ways to germinate a seed other than soil or jiffy pellets, heres one...

PH adjust 25mm/30mm rockwool cubes to 5.5 and let sit over night.
While doing that get a bottle of distilled water, fill a glass with the water and let it sit for around an hour or 2(let it get to room temperature). Drop the seeds into the glass of water, put them in a dark cupboard for 10 or 12 hours. Get 2 plates and 4 or 5 paper towels. Spray the same water that you were using from the glass to moisten the towels, dont soak the towels, or you'll drown the seed through lack of oxygen. Sandwitch the seeds between the moist towels, put the sandwitched towel and seeds on the plate and place the other plate upside down over them, or place them in the same cupboard that you were already using. Keep them moist and dont look at them for a couple of days. You should see little white roots appear from the seed (if not, let them sit for another few days). Drain your rockwool cubes untill they are only moist (not soaking), place the seed a couple of mm down in the cube with the root pointing down (dont damage that root, try and use twizers with rubber ends), put cling flim or clear plastic cup over the cubes or just keep moisting the cubes, the cubes has to be in a warm place (i cant remember the temerature, i'm sure someone here will help you out with that) Place a CFL fluorescent light over them, and when you see the small leaves opened take the plastic cup away, and away you go...

I personally love jiffy pellets, 99% germinate rate.

thanks fitzy!! now about the rockwool, i use hydropon, will i be able to transplant into my aero or ebb & flow (hydropon) eventually???

thanks again fitzy

~cheers

Yep, when the roots show at the side and bottom of the cubes, transplant them to your clay pellets, Keep the top of the cubes flush with the pellets so that the rockwool doesnt get soaked (stem rot and mould)