Hey guys, so ive started my first grow and i placed 2 seeds straight in the soil, now its the 4th day and they still didnt showed up. Should i try to look for them? Or wait more? Next time i think ill try the paper towel, anyway any tips will be aprciated. Thanks in advance
New Grower Seeds straight in soil
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Gatorbackbob
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Everybody has their own preferred way, I like to soak mine in a small cup of tap water with 1 tbsp 3% hydrogen peroxide for 24 hours, then into a wet paper towel in an open baggie, left on my wifi usually get taproots within 6-8 hours
I'd wait a few more days, digging around won't help.
I like to plant directly in the soil too, but after a few non-germs, I've started soaking in a cup of water first for 24 hrs, then planting, and I've had 100% success with the last dozen beans like this.
A lot of people prefer to paper towel them to see the sprout first, after soaking. You just want to be gentle with them at that point, bro, so you don't harm them when you plant. For me, planting after soak works fine, still takes 2 to 5 days or so to see them come up so patience and faith are needed, digging around will not help anything.
I like to plant directly in the soil too, but after a few non-germs, I've started soaking in a cup of water first for 24 hrs, then planting, and I've had 100% success with the last dozen beans like this.
A lot of people prefer to paper towel them to see the sprout first, after soaking. You just want to be gentle with them at that point, bro, so you don't harm them when you plant. For me, planting after soak works fine, still takes 2 to 5 days or so to see them come up so patience and faith are needed, digging around will not help anything.
Next round do a 18-24 hour soak and most seeds will be up in 48 hours tops...
Glad to hear you're seeing movement though. That's always a good feeling [emoji106]
AnxiousGrower
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I use the paper towel method. I just like seeing the taproot before planting.
I used all the known other methods, but I got some rare seeds that couldn't be replaced and I figured the absolute safest way to do it without any chance for human error was to plant them straight out of the refrigerator dry right into the very saturated soil which will be kept very moist till I see a sprout. And Even then I turn a 6 inch terra cotta pot with a hole upside down over the seed until it sprouts. My germ rate was already ridicuously high just soaking a seed for 24 hours, but I lost three (always soak seeds in seperate cups) due to stpid mistake. Now I plnat my normal seeds the same way. Germ rate is just exactly the same minus dropped seeds (one less trip to make wit a seed in yiur hand) and it seems like it takes longer but when you figure how long a seed sits in a paper twowel or how long it sits in a cup and then germs they are all about the same. It's just taking the no transplant to extreme. I won't even transplant a seed anymore. But to answer your question, wait 8 days. That's the longest I ever went. And then after 8 days I planted another seed in the exact same spot and sure enough, 3 days later I got a sprout, and the next day I got another sprout.
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