Yes potatoes.
Wow what a great deal!
Ewww now I am sick.
If the plant did not go dry? It is usually a sign of too much fertilizer.
What you need to learn about watering will come with practice. Here are the basic rules: Never let the soil dry out. Soil and or coco can become hydrophobic if allowed to dry. This means it repels water. This in turn will create dry pockets in the soil and the roots and microbes will die there. If your soil - coco have accidentally dried out use a surfactant to help re-wet it. I like yucca powder. Don't let soil remain soggy by watering too much too often. Root rot, damping off, molds, fungus gnats and other problems start in soggy soil. When you do water water the entire pot. How to learn when to water starts before you plant the seed. Fill your container with fresh soil/coco and weigh it (heft it) this is the lightest weight and consider it a dry pot. Now slowly water until the soil/coco will no longer absorb the water and run-off begins; weigh the pot (heft it) this is the maximum water, the wettest the pot can get. The difference between wettest and driest is the maximum water weight, for ease of explanation lets just say the water weighs 20 pounds. When the pot loses 10 pounds (half of the water weight) it is time to water again. Slowly wet ALL of the soil until run-off begins. There is an art to watering.
Ok you two you are getting a little too political
and the president no matter who he or she is has very little to do with oil prices here in the USA. Oil companies are sitting on hundreds if not thousands of oil leases it simply is not in their interest to bring more oil online when you can create an artificial shortage and charge more for what you sell.
Seeds that are old or even some genetics like the African Sativas have seed shells that are very tough. Germination rates are poor because the embryo does not have enough energy to crack the shell and water has a hard time penetrating. By barely cracking the shell at the seam it helps the seed to get started. It also speeds up germination on regular seeds.
Because stress induced hermies will produce more hermies from the seed derived. CS is a hormone manipulation that does not pass on the hermie trait - unless the plant was already a hermie producer.