Seeds not cracking? try this before you bin them

Bought several seeds last week for approximately £40 which were

3x Samsara Supersonic Cristal Storm Auto
3x Green-o-matic AK Auto

I Put them in between two wet paper towels as I normal do, left in a warm dark place for 24 hrs, checking them every 6-8 hours for signs of life and keeping them moist.

Well this went on for 2 days! So in desperation of thinking it was something I was doing wrong, I doubled checked ph, temp and for light leaks, nothing. This really pissed me off! nothing to go on, so I put in a Dinafem deep grapefruit freebee from The Attitude I got with my seeds and within 8 hours it had cracked and was showing its tap root!

So after a lot of stressing and smoking my self dumb while thinking I had lost my entire order, (except freebie (which takes the piss)) I Pulled out all the seeds and had a good look at them, I could only describe them as looking like tiny coconuts, light brown with marbling effect, normal to me expect for being slightly lighter in colour. So I spent most of the night and the early morning Google’ing and searching for posts of any other ways to get them to crack. Non, other than re germing them by allowing them to dry and then putting them in the fridge (I didn’t fancy that) it was only then I discovered a post on a non cannabis site about filing one of the edges to make a tiny hole to allow water to get inside, that gave me the idea to scratch the seed with a knife. To my total surprisement I found that it outer coating was like a coconut husk which when removed revealed the darker shell I’m use too. I then put it back into the towel last night and this morning it had hatched, HAHAH I had cracked it!

Today I’ve spent the last hours scratching seeds hope to give you more news later tonight! Fingers crossed!

So before you bin your non cracking seed please try this!

P.S Don’t cut your thumbs off!

^^^Good info^^^ I get my seeds next week.

Yes using sandpaper also works and is a little safer.

I have 10 GrassoMatic AK's going now, very stable strain except for 1 that is literally twice as tall as the rest. Great potency for an auto, very frosty. Im expecting 20g average off each, probably an ounce off the tall one.

Good luck

Oh ya and theyre under a 600watt HPS^

Just because a seed doesn't pop within a couple days doesn't necessarily mean you're doing anything wrong. Some will split in less than 24 hours, some in over a week.

Patience.

Nullis said:

Just because a seed doesn't pop within a couple days doesn't necessarily mean you're doing anything wrong. Some will split in less than 24 hours, some in over a week.

Patience.

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Very true! but whats the problem of speeding the process up? 2 more have cracked just, when I did this 6 hours ago. left one untouched and this one and another 2 scratched seeds are yet to sprout.

i normally soak mine over night drop them into a cup with water next day to papertowel all done on heating pad

Yes I put the second 2 seeds in a cup of water for 24hr, then transfered to towel. still no joy. Ive never ever had problems with seeds like this before, maybe the seeds were to young or still had part of the bud coated on it? strange I know, but I'll defo do this everytime I have a non starter using the towel method.