Well, I have replacement seeds if the 5 don’t show, except for the blue dream. I think I have a few more orange gojis, 1 more seed of the blue gelato 41 and more gdp’s. If the blue dream doesn’t show, I’ll have to replace it with something. Probably try the gorilla glue x super skunk. I also have some jolly rancher cookies seeds. I have fems of both of those for ease. I don’t want to have to sex too many strains. It’s just extra soil and nutes to waste on possible males. I’m trying to limit the reg seeds to 4 out of the 9 that I have to deal with. That’s already 12 plants that I will have to sex before I can plant in the ground. That’s enough work for me, especially since I don’t use supplemental lights.
The most irritating is that the Blue Gelato 41 all packaged in that fancy breeder packaging from Barney’s that I won, did not come up. You’d think these new fangled fancy seeds would germ better. Unfortunately, I gave most of them away. Hopefully the last seed I have comes up.
I’ve had my Orange Goji seeds take 3 to 4 days straight into the soil/jiffys/paper towel 100 percent germ rate. Just started 20 a couple months ago in jiffys 100 germ rate.
Soaking them seems to kill them but I’ve had no issues with them.
I read something recently that seeds, no matter the type, will stall out at 62 degrees. I don’t think I’ve ever started cannabis outside then had it rain for a week straight. Usually cannabis takes 4 days to germ outside here. It’s possible the lower temps off and on this week have stalled them all out cuz the first ones showed at 6 days. I’m probably just being paranoid. lol Either way, I need to chill tf out and remind myself that sometimes seeds just don’t germ even in perfect conditions.
a friend of mine uses a service which tells you if little just popped plantlets are male or female
you send them a cotyledon and they tell you if it is male or female
it worked perfect for him and saves the hassle of growing out and wasting time
what I don’t know is where it was he sent them or how much it costs
maybe someone here will know of this service
I’ll ask him if I can find him
For many years that’s how I started my beans indoors southern exposed window . Started a lot of veggies the same Bay window . Now I use a grow tent and LEDs to jump start my grow . At first things seem so slow then oh crap how do I hide that . Just moist not soggy .
Thank you @SamwellBB. If I only had one or two to sex I would, but since I just spent 600 bucks on my amendments. 700 including the 2 soil tests as well as the 350 on the new rototiller, I’m pretty tapped out at the moment and with the stay at home order I worry about spending another few hundred on anything else right now besides bills. At this point, I will probably try @ReikoX suggestion of taking cuttings and putting them in water and light depriving to show sex.
On seed watch… blue gelato 41 popped and I see disturbed soil on the last gdp so pretty sure it’s popping. No sign of the blue dream or the last 2 orange gojis
Blue Dream and last Grand Daddy Purp are up. No on the last two Orange Gojis. I pulled the flat out of the greenhouse so I won’t have to harden these babies off and it finished raining so no worry of accidental drowning now. I have to dig out the very edges of the veggie patch today where the rototiller couldn’t get to. Some of my hated bermuda grass there. Gonna measure out the exact spots in there where the plants will go eventually and mark the 9 spots with tposts so I can see where I want to start planting the companions. So far it’s mostly gonna be marigolds and nasturtiums, but I may throw a basil plant or two down as well. Any other suggestions??
I’d do both of those in a pot, they are both perennials and will take over. Especially rosemary, those suckers grow like weeds here! I do have mints in pots as well to fool bugs placed strategically around the patch. My thought is that if I plant nasturtiums around the entire edges of the plot, a lot of the bugs will stop there. I have oregano out there too! We’ll see if I can even get the basil big enough to thrive. Last year the ground bugs took it out as sprouts.
That blue dream seed surprised me. I kept going out there in the dark last night checking on it and the soil wasn’t even disturbed. It was a nice surprise this morning. Always good when it’s your only seed of a strain.
