You can also add a little hydrogen peroxide to seedling water.
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I will do this in future. Thanks for sharing this tip!
Welcome Spring
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7th grade science project. Always remembered it.
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A little H2O2 never hurt my plants at any age. I throw some in the res every now and then.
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@DougDawson I recently used a single serve yogurt cup, half filled with damp peat based (hp pro) dropped in seed after the initial soak, covered up 1/4" of dry soil and put the whole thing in a ziplock sandwich bag of air, put under lights in tent, 2-3days later had a sproutā¦ watered again after 3 days lightly, back in bag for 2 days. Then removed bag and watered lightly everyday, since the cup drys out fastā¦ Then up potted when they got too tall for the tiny cupā¦
Iām sure your method will work just fine 
Just tossing this out here in case ya wanted to explore something a little different.
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Thanks man, I am open to try anything. I have had success with my methods but there are always other ways. Right now 2 of the seeds have cracked and shown tap roots. I put them into Coco plugs and the other 2 are in paper towel. Things should be good but I am nowhere near an expert. If these 4 donāt do well I will switch it up and try something new. Never lost a seed until now and it is not a happy feeling but it happens, will just keep moving forward. I am committed to make sure this run getās done.
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I hear that for sure. I recently lost a seed and it was the last one I had, impossible to replaceā¦ Ughā¦ oh well, NEXTā¦
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That stinks! I have lost more this time than my other two years. I will try two different ways Iāve seen here lately and compare.
Welcome Springā¦
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Well things are back on track. All 4 seeds have popped and sprouted a tap root. All 4 now in coco pellets. The one planted in pellet a day ago is coming out to say hi. Fingers crossed.
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Solo cups changed the style of their cups recently, in the last few years. They used to have a relatively flat bottom, and now they have a ridge around the perimeter of the lower cup. If you put your drainage holes in the middle of the cup, as I had always done with the old Solo cups, your Taproot could drown or rot. Those ridges around the perimeter of the cup hold nearly a quarter inch of water and keep the bottom of your soil soaking wet. Something to look out for you even if itās not the problem causing damp off. . Holes now need to be drilled around the perimeter of the cup instead of in the middle. 2 or 3 1/4 inch holes.
If you grow enough plants, itās a given that youāll run into a few that donāt like your particular style very much. I am running into that with the land races on occasion. I managed to kill a fair amount of Moroccan last spring due to damp off. Other plants did just fine. I wonder if that crazy Heat Wave and super dry weather out in California the last few years has anything to do with extra damp off sensitivity. .were the seeds made out there by chance?
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Thanks for the input man, I appreciate it. I did notice the ridges and put holes around them as well as in the bottom. Itās a good tip. I have always used coco plugs so I went with those for second attempt. Hopefully this goes better.
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Well lo and behold a second seed is reaching out and that poor little seedling that was flopping over is picking herself up again. Not sure if she will make it or not but she is trying. Were there is life, there is hope.
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Cool tipsā¦ thank you for that! 
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Glad to see this sprouting for ya
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Thanks man, I am really happy to see that poor seedling fighting for life. Didnāt think it would come back at all. Still may not but at least itās trying.
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Good call, noticed the same thing. Having temporarily been unsure of the exact location of my drill, I used an old $3 Harbor Freight soldering iron to melt holes on my last go round with Solos.
Didnāt crack a cup.
About a year ago I bought a case of 4x4x5 inch square black plastic pots that have vertical channels that cause the roots to grow down into the pot instead of circling it.
Of course any pot can cause rootbound plants but if you time it right, the roots are easy to separate.
Below is a clone of a clone of a regular seed female Zamaldelica.
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I use a lighter and touch the bottom edge of the solo cup with the flame in a few spots for drainage
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No, they were not.
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Last year as I accidentally murdered my Beldia seedlings, I dug down into the soil a little bit to look and see where the damp off had occurred. By exposing the stem to some air, it dried the stem up enough and the seedling lived. You have to catch it as soon as the plant starts to wilt for this to work.
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