How to easily germinate your seeds and survive the first 10 days
The process
Using tweezers, gently put your seeds on a wet kitchen towel, which is placed inside a plastic food container. The towel must be damp and wet but not dripping wet. Close the towel over the seeds and stuff it tightly in the corners, then close the lid on the food container. Put the closed food container in a kitchen cupboard for at least 24 hours. Healthy seeds should sprout between 24 and 48 hours.
As soon as they sprout, remove them. In the meantime, prepare your medium for the seedlings. Buy perlite. Spread the perlite on the floor of your little greenhouse. Buy Jiffy starter plugs, containing pressed peat.
When the seeds germinated, let the plugs soak in lukewarm water for 5 minutes. When totally soaked, put the germinated seeds root-down in the prepared holes in each plug. Cover the hole lightly with some peat from the plug and don’t put the seeds too deep. Now comes the most important part! The seedlings have to go inside a incubator with a totally closed lid.
Put a 33w Cooltube (daylight) neon light on top of the incubator (20 hours on/4 hours off). The more neon’s the better! Massive daylight is what the seedlings need now, nothing else. After two days your seedlings should look like this.
Now every day you can open the ventilation slides of the incubator a bit more. After 7 full days they should be open at max. When the roots of the seedling grow out of the plug (sideways or at the bottom), transplant your plug to a slightly bigger pot, containing 100% unfertilized soil (which you can buy at any supermarket). Remove the lid from the incubator and keep your little babies under the lights for 2 or 3 more days.
If the weather allows, the whole tray can be put in the sunlight for 1 or 2 hours per day, to harden the plants. Day 10. That’s it! Your babies have survived the most critical time of their lives and are now ready to transplant to your final pot. Remember: the bigger the pot, the bigger your harvest. This does not apply to automatic strains, they need 20l pots max. Text: cccp
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