I used to tap em, i dont anymore. As far as direction when planting goes, it ends up however it ends up. After i pour it out of my floatek glass and cover it with soil, who knows what direction they have ended up in lol.
For conservation sake, watching some of the alan Atkinson videos. The seed may fall heavy side down but the heard of cattle walking buy may have rolled it as they stepped on it and pushed it in to the soil? Lol clearly i need to smoke more tonight.
People also say not to keep your soil wet and not to give your seed too much water. My seeds go from glass of water to a micto sip that has standing water all day, then into my big sips they go. My taproot never dries out until harvest. BAS says to let the res dry out but i haven’t seen a reason to since ive started growing this way.
Great thread as I’m messing with this exact thing. I’m using some sip’s outside and they’ve been outstanding. Also used build a soils cover crop. Occasionally I give labs, and fpj. Top dressed with some flower girl.
I purchased some 2 gallon marry pots. Once they were large enough just un Velcro the bottoms and set them on the soil. The smaller one in the cloth bag is the same age, you can see the growth difference. They are going into 5th week of flower. Tons of rain the last several weeks so they have also been top watered quite a bit
Ah I’m late to the convo! I soak the beans in peroxide and tap water in a shot glass until they pop a root. Sometimes takes 24hrs, sometimes it takes two weeks and I have to top off the shot glass every few days. Whenever they pop a root I plant them in coco/dirt/whathaveyou with the root pointing down. I’ve had like a 99% success rate this way. Only beans that didn’t pop were already black on the inside and that’s only been like two in 100+ beans.
You can push the seeds down into the water if you want. Whether they float or not makes Zero difference. I’ve also had some that stayed on the bottom for a day and then floated back up afterwards. Still popped a root, got planted, and came up. I’ve left beans in the glass for days and came back to find full blown seedlings floating in the cup, free of shells just enjoying life 90% submerged in water…
I’ve been doing 1ml peroxide to 29ish ml tap water but I was just listening to The Pot Cast interview with Snow High(Patreon, not public yet) and he’s saying he does 50% peroxide to 50% tap so I may start doing that instead.
The reasoning is the the h202 will soften the seed shell to promote germination. And the h2o2, plus the chlorine in the tap water, will help sterilize it. ^^
Also I was wondering if I should be able to just put some amendments over the top and wrap them up for the winter, then re plant in the spring without changing out or tilling the soil?
I don’t have a huge arsenal of amendments yet but I have a few
I don’t grow in SIPS but for me I value Vermicompost & comfrey probably over everything else. If you have the space you may want to look into planting some comfrey (Bocking-14 sterile variety) for future use. A worm bin is a great investment as well. Maybe some straw or shredded leaves on top of the soil as well if you don’t have enough comfrey to sufficiently cover the soil…
Starting a home worm bin is one of the greatest things I have done for my garden. Its really easy to maintain, no smell, and super fun! I posted a DIY worm bin tutorial earlier in this thread, but there are tons of designs.
Yes, to Bockings 14 Comfrey!!! I feed that to my worms also! Micronutrient magic!!
While I agree with kelp meal I do not agree with blood and bone meal most brands unless self sourced they come from non organic slaughter houses that could have potential unwanteds such as antibiotics de wormers etc even if it might be trace amounts with as much as cannabis bio accumulates things I wouldn’t risk it now fishbone meal or fish meal would be a better alternative and I would swap out Dolomite lime for oyster shell flour as it doesn’t have the mg in it where as the dolomite lime it added when not needing extra mg may be antagonistic to his system as it may lock out potassium or calcium
