Anyone having trouble germinating Mephisto gear lately? I have having a lot of germ failures with HBBH and AvT. My tried and true method isn't working (12H soak in filtered water and a very small amount of humic/kelp and then into Root Riot soaked in 6.0 water and squeezed out - kept at 79 F and 70% RH). I have tried germinating 5 HBBH and 3 AvT without success.
Tried paper towel method too. No luck.
I don't blame genetics but likely storage/transport issues. These are older strains in the catalog so I have no idea when they were actually produced. I assume they were stored correctly by Meph but don't know how they were stored during transport and distribution, and how they were stored by seed bank . I assume several weeks in a shipping container doesn't help. In any event - just wondering if anyone else is having challenges with their earlier catalog. Thanks.