Nevermind, your talking the germing seeds, yes agree had to dab them with towel
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I hope you’ll excuse what might be a stupid question, but I’m a little confused by the germinating seeds photo… do you have seeds sitting on the surface of medium, and that’s the tap root coming out?
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I’ve crossed posted it to The Central American group.
Thanks I’m real busy …but I’m sure be some interest there.
Happy growing
P J
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Yes that is correct.
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That would be correct sir. Unfortunately either my worm compost has bad critters or I screwed up somehow. Seeds are unfortunately now getting moldy and have little wormies crawling over them.
Gonna have to try another method or figure out what I’m doing wrong.
I bought some GA, test tubes, and coir today. I’m going to try the uber sanitary route next go around.
@JohnnyPotseed I’ll take some photos tomorrow and see what you think.
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Sounds like you mighta had some ‘nastiies’ in the WC, brother.
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Yep. Out of curiosity, if I cook the castings, I’m killing everything, presumably that would negate the value of the method?
Sterilizing castings takes all the good stuff out as well as the bad.
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Freakers ball posts have advice.
Pressure cook the soil for some time. An amino acid depletes over time can be added, dont remember the name. Aspirin and cinnamon water soak a few hours was posted recently. That is all I know.
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Haven’t heard much about that, and not sure if it’d work for germinating. I’ve only always used straight, fresh WC and have had excellent results. Just look at that link I posted… I say the proof is in the pudding. lol
Alright, I’m going back to my movie with the wife, lol
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Thats what I thought. I don’t have my own worm bin, so I buy castings from Terra Firma.
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I personally think these new germinations are weak and dont need bacteria to fight also.
How much does a culture grow in Petri dish cost?
Enjoy and thanks, apologies to the wife, mine is looking at me right now as well…think you know what i mean
Excellent collection and wonderful project idea. I would be glad to help. I have some snowhigh genetics growing as we speak and just completed a freakers grow for snowhighs pablo’s gold vietnames purple cross. I have so many landrace and heirloom strains in the queue I cannot help you right away. But many here may be able to do so, and when my backlog clears up I am game as well.
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here with my group of friends and I are trying to germinate old seeds with the worm bins method.
It is by far the best I have seen for germinating old seeds
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For the germination discussion - I had similar issues recently with store bought castings - I think they were old and contaminated - I blanked on 2 packs that should’ve done better than that… shortly after I saw some little “flies” in the castings so I blame that along with the fact I probably had them too wet as well.
To redeem myself I put my next packs straight in solo cups with sterilized soil and plastic wrap over the top, on a heat mat, and removed the plastic once they sprout. I used a mild humid acid solution for the initial watering as well.
For the ones that didn’t sprout I left them in the cups and let them go through several wet / dry cycles and surprisingly had two of the Torreón x Michoacán sprout about a month after the initial germination group.
PS - to echo @misterbee id vouch for @YoBigdaddy as a strong choice for any repro efforts 
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I would definitely try to track down that jar of old seeds! Just put it back in your freezer as soon as you get them and they could last a really long time. You could be sitting on some old Mexican classics there!
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