Mephisto Genetics Another Dream Farm Project!

[derek420colorado]

I did drop all of my mephistos. Double grape, toothless alien and MBAP today so here’s to hoping we see some ladies up in a day or two

 

[derek420colorado]

Hey @Shiva's Mistress and @slowandeasy quick question. So I am tryin the shot glass germination method and I just wanna make sure I’ve got it right. Take a shot glass type container and put a couple drops h2O2 and 80-85F water, drop seeds in, keep at 80-85, in A dark place and check in 24 hours. If not cracked then replace water and re do for another 24 hours. If the seeds are viable it should work 99-100% of the time right? TIA

 

[derek420colorado]

Hey @Shiva's Mistress and @slowandeasy quick question. So I am tryin the shot glass germination method and I just wanna make sure I’ve got it right. Take a shot glass type container and put a couple drops h2O2 and 80-85F water, drop seeds in, keep at 80-85, in A dark place and check in 24 hours. If not cracked then replace water and re do for another 24 hours. If the seeds are viable it should work 99-100% of the time right? TIA

It’s a little bit of a fib. I mean I already did all this I am just double checking lol. I have germinated in paper towels for almost 20 years, after SandA explained the flaws in the paper towel and his success rate with the shot glass method I decided To give it a whirl. I am nothin if not teachable lol

 

[pop22]

I use empty medicine bottle from like Tylenol etc, the small ones. I have a black plastic toolbox I paid $2.00 for I keep them in and use it as a blackout box I can place just about anywhere. I soak 24hr max. I use a couple drops of H2O2 also for the added oxygen.

lately I've been working with 12hr soak. Then to paper towel. Soaking them longer seems to have no real benefit that I can see, I get them same results regardless of how long I soak them. Sometimes they sprout in the water sometimes not. I'll be conservative and say with good seeds not too old, I get 95% germ rate, often 100%.

Hey @Shiva's Mistress and @slowandeasy quick question. So I am tryin the shot glass germination method and I just wanna make sure I’ve got it right. Take a shot glass type container and put a couple drops h2O2 and 80-85F water, drop seeds in, keep at 80-85, in A dark place and check in 24 hours. If not cracked then replace water and re do for another 24 hours. If the seeds are viable it should work 99-100% of the time right? TIA

 

[pop22]

And I'm not buying the "flaws" in using paper towel. I've been doing it for years also. With fresh seeds I get 99.9% germination. And 99.5% success with transplant, the 0.5% being those few I've mishandled. Yes the transplant is the weakest link in this but done right it's not a problem. My personal experience with soaking then direct to soil/medium much less successful, though that may somehow be my fault. Germ rate for me this way was about 80%, it's why I stopped. So I'll be interested to see how you do with this. Will you test it over multiple germinations? A one time result tells you nothing.

 

[derek420colorado]

I use empty medicine bottle from like Tylenol etc, the small ones. I have a black plastic toolbox I paid $2.00 for I keep them in and use it as a blackout box I can place just about anywhere. I soak 24hr max. I use a couple drops of H2O2 also for the added oxygen.

lately I've been working with 12hr soak. Then to paper towel. Soaking them longer seems to have no real benefit that I can see, I get them same results regardless of how long I soak them. Sometimes they sprout in the water sometimes not. I'll be conservative and say with good seeds not too old, I get 95% germ rate, often 100%.

Nice! I actually used a little Sysco container like one that you get sweet and sour sauce in from the Chinese food place and taped it up with electrical tape and set it in the window sil. Which is about 87F I am goin to leave em for 24 hrs and see what they look like then. If sprouted cool if not I may put two in paper towel and leave the other two to soak for another 24 to compare

 

[derek420colorado]

And I'm not buying the "flaws" in using paper towel. I've been doing it for years also. With fresh seeds I get 99.9% germination. And 99.5% success with transplant, the 0.5% being those few I've mishandled. Yes the transplant is the weakest link in this but done right it's not a problem. My personal experience with soaking then direct to soil/medium much less successful, though that may somehow be my fault. Germ rate for me this way was about 80%, it's why I stopped. So I'll be interested to see how you do with this. Will you test it over multiple germinations? A one time result tells you nothing.

Oh yeah I plan on putting this to the test. I would say my germ rate is around 95% so if I can improve I will def try. My hope is that this way will get a taproot that i can see easier than messin with the paper towel lol. This way I can just look at em through the container.

 

[Mizzo81]

Oh yeah I plan on putting this to the test. I would say my germ rate is around 95% so if I can improve I will def try. My hope is that this way will get a taproot that i can see easier than messin with the paper towel lol. This way I can just look at em through the container.

Over the course of a few years I’ve spent the first couple using paper towel method had good germ rates. Then I went to direct sow had better results and the time in paperyowel was a waste to me. I could take a seed from the fridge and direct plant and the fastest I’ve had a baby in 48 hrs. Usually 3-4 days. I’ve switched to the soak method because I encountered a couple seeds that were super tough to germ. I dug them up soaked in a cup replanted and bam. So now it’s a quick soak. I don’t use h2o2 I use some microbes and kelp. Germ rates have always been really good usually everything pops with all three methods.

 

[derek420colorado]

Here are the babehs from today.

 

[derek420colorado]

And of course I looked this morning and none of the gorillasquatch had cracked so I dropped the other 5 I had. I go back out there and two of them had cracked and little taproots had started. So one of Them went into its forever home and the other I am waiting for a little more of a tap to come. So knowing my luck all of them will germ and I will end up with about 5 more plants than I had planned or I will have to cull the strugglers. Not a bad problem to have I suppose lol