I’m having weird germination issues. This spring I bought seeds from Northatlantic seed co. I bought 5- Purpz ( HSC ). I had 5-orange cream pops purchased from HSC, and 5-Barney’s farm cherry poppers. I’m using 1/2 gallon pots with recycled soil amended with parboiled ricehulls happy frog light warrior worm castings azomite gypsum and Epsom. The core 2â€x3†, to plant the seeds at 1/2†deep of just light warrior. No compaction, wetted to 5% , in the center planting core only exerted pressure to eliminate air pockets. I gave it 5 pumps of my 6.5 ph well water. l then covered 1/4 inch worm castings and three additional pumps of water. I had
soaked the seeds put a for 14 hours in which most seeds popped open . I planted the seeds , covered with a clear 18 oz solo cup with two pin holes in the top, I have a dedicated seedling tent with a XS1500 Pro Vipar LED. Three days later every seed had germinated except 60% of the the Purpz. NASeed reimbursed me. I then ordered 3- new Purpz, and 3- vanilla frosting from Humboldt seed co. I got three free x- bbc-vanilla frosting. I soaked one of each in a shot glass for 18 hours and planted in the exact same setup. After three days Purpz and bbc x vanilla Germinated: 10 days in the soil the Vanilla frosting did not germinate. I thought no problem I have three more seeds so I repeated this same technique with one shot glass and after 20 hours no seed cracked. I switched to paper towel method. And two days into paper towel and nothing.
has anyone had specific issues with vanilla frosting? Are they needing something different to germinate?
Sounds like you’re pretty set up, i would recommend a par meter or par meter app for your phone to judge light levels accurately. I use the Photone App , with and IPhone its very accurate. There are a couple meters now that are good and less expensive than the benchmark Apogee if you want something stand alone.
Your outdoor plants look amazing , keep doing what your doing