Seedling frustration.

Hey all,
I've tried growing marijuana plenty of times, alot of them working out great. However 9 times out of 10 I bought clones or had people do up the seedlings for me. I assumed this would be the easiest section of all.

However my last few batches have gone horribly wrong, for one reason or another my last two crops had a 0 SUCCESS and 60 FAILED dead seedlings. (50 were outside and died on my own fault). My seedlings almost always germinate (when I later crack soil to check) I just cannot ever seem to get them above soil.

Do I water too much?

Before I would give it 125ml (half cup) of water every other day.

Do I use the wrong soil?
I was using 100% MG potting soil, could this have caused the burning?

I assumed these are my issues, so now I am using 25% MG 50% BMI 25% Perlite mixture. I also have no watered since friday (3 days ago).

I am using an array of CFL's, 6 daylight 2 2300k

Any help would be great, i've read COUNTLESS books/pages on this.

How long should I wait until I see sprouts? I did 1/4 no pre-germination, 1/4 papertowl germination, 1/4 cup-tp germination and 1/4 cup of water pre-germination.

Should I see green within a few days?
I have 10x WW 10x MK and 2 x UFO's
All white label.

Thanks in advance!!

when I plant a seed, I usually add a few drops of water 2-3 times a day on the place where the seed is. 125ml/day is way too much imho.

Drops! Perfect idea, I was considering misting but I figured penetration would be terrible.
Thank-you!

you can also use a window cleaner bottle (thoroughly washed ofcourse) to spray water on top of the ground. Problem is if you aim it at that spot it may push the dirt back a bit and hurt the seed. dropping works every time for me.

Edit: Ah and I always germinate in paper towels before putting in soil.

How long would you wait while they are germinating, a few days in papertowl?
My papertowl dried overnight.. Do you resoak?
ps: thanks again.

hmm.. well let's see, extremely short tutorial:

1. Take 2 plates from your kitchen.
2. take paper towels (I also like to add some cotton under thepaper towels to keep moisture)
3. moist cotton and paper towel, put seed(s) on it and cover with another paper towel.
4. again moist after covering (I use a sprinkler to do this)
5. put the product between the 2 plates, check ever few hours and moist when needed.

Now, keep in mind that you don't need to soak them because they will drown, but just do this like you did with beans when you were a kid in school.

In 24-72 hours all my seeds usually sprout (except a bad batch of 10 white widows which never sprouted )

Good luck my friend

Vices said:

How long would you wait while they are germinating, a few days in papertowl?
My papertowl dried overnight.. Do you resoak?
ps: thanks again.

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Put the plate, seeds and all into a ziplock to keep them from drying out.