friday night i decided sort of on the spur of the moment to try to germinate a oneoff seed that i had.... as some of you know, i have had all manner of troubles with germination, mostly, i think (from after the fact analysis) due to a bad batch of pHdown and the rest due to my own stupidity/inexperience.
sooo this time i literally said "fuck it, let's try this...", after having been marinating on whoever it was that germinates his seeds on his DVR....can't remember who you are...but thank you!!
first i tore a little 3"x3" inch square of paper towel and folded it over twice, so ultimately the size of a large jelly bean when mashed. i wrung/smushed it until it no longer dripped water. so it was closer to wet/damp, further along the continuum than moist, when i put the seed in the middle of it and wrapped it back up. i then put that in a tiny ziploc (size 'snack bag'). i put that in the front pocket of my denim jeans. this was about 11 p.m. Friday. i stupidly forgot about it when i went to bed round 2 a.m. so it sat with no body warmth for about 6-8 hours overnight. then next morning i put it back in my pocket and went about my business. saturday night i put it in the pocket of my pajama shorts while i slept and so continued the experiment.
at no time did i remove anything from anything. not the paper towel from the baggie, not opening the paper towel to "check on things", nothing.
this morning at 9 a.m. i opened it up for the first time to find a beautiful 1/4"+ long taproot, just ready to be planted....
sooo this time i literally said "fuck it, let's try this...", after having been marinating on whoever it was that germinates his seeds on his DVR....can't remember who you are...but thank you!!
first i tore a little 3"x3" inch square of paper towel and folded it over twice, so ultimately the size of a large jelly bean when mashed. i wrung/smushed it until it no longer dripped water. so it was closer to wet/damp, further along the continuum than moist, when i put the seed in the middle of it and wrapped it back up. i then put that in a tiny ziploc (size 'snack bag'). i put that in the front pocket of my denim jeans. this was about 11 p.m. Friday. i stupidly forgot about it when i went to bed round 2 a.m. so it sat with no body warmth for about 6-8 hours overnight. then next morning i put it back in my pocket and went about my business. saturday night i put it in the pocket of my pajama shorts while i slept and so continued the experiment.
at no time did i remove anything from anything. not the paper towel from the baggie, not opening the paper towel to "check on things", nothing.
this morning at 9 a.m. i opened it up for the first time to find a beautiful 1/4"+ long taproot, just ready to be planted....
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