New Grower Seed Germination Experiment

[pop22]

Being always curious about things, decided a test of my seeds was in order. What I want to know is the germination rate, or lack of, for seeds and various stages of ripeness. My cheese clones that were dusted with durrty dragon pollen had a good number of seeds, some ripe, mostly not. I've made three groups of seeds: green, white, and brown/ripe. I put 8 green 8 white and 4 brown ( don't want to waste these if they are viable ) and placed them in cups of water. I'll leave them there for up to a week and see what germs.

 

[namvet25]

Let us no what happens but I believe if the seeds are not fully mature they wont germ.

 

[pop22]

I figure that, but I got em, may as well test the idea! I'll update in a few days.

 

[thetreeman]

Ive noticed that if you take seeds and drop them on cardboard, the seeds that are mature sound distinctly different than those that arent. Its a easy way to figure out if there is anything in them.

 

[medic grower]

Nice idea Pop. Well from experience i can say greenish whitish seeds do germ as i had a very early harvested Seedbatch of the Flower Bomb Kush from Strainhunters when my first Testbatch came in. from 10..7 made it to vital healthy ladys. Subbed aint we all lil scientists

 

[pop22]

Last update

Well the outcome was interesting! Both the green seeds and the white had a 50% germ rate. The brown seeds were 100%. Much better across the board than I expected. so, if your short for good seed and have a few like this, give them a shot! Better than having nothing I'd say!

 

[pop22]

Update:

I recently put 14 seeds to soak then to paper towel. They were mostly green to a little brown. again, I had a 50% germ rate! Of these I'm growing 6 to see if the plants are good, healthy plants. This is a different batch of seeds also and seeing I had plenty, I thought it worthy to make this test. So if you make seed, don't throw any out unless they just plain look bad! 50% of something is much better than 100% of nothing!

These seeds this time are from an Auto Cush male accidentally pollinating a Chemdogging female. I got around 100 good seeds from this!

 

[tobylazlo]

what i would like to add it does not have any connection to this post but find it interesting.at my current grow of autoflowers,i planted a seed without germinating it into one of the pots i have currently in the growbox.some unknown photo seed.i grew my plants with biobizz grow.the hemp seed finnaly showed up in the soil after one month.what i am trying to say is that from all the nutrients added to the soil the hemp seed should not have germinated,but it did.Does this make the hemp seed resistant to high levels of nutrients without burning it?