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Planted To Deep

Eric

Eric

I decided to check my chocolate hab for some reason so I started lightly brushing the soil away well I expected to see hints of a seed about 1/4" and there was nothing so I kept digging the seed was about 1/2" deep and had already went through the hook and the leafs were out, Good thing I dug it up looks healthy but it probably started this morning or late last evening.

I decided to check 130 more plants and guess what most of them were to deep so I learned my lesson and hopefully saved my plants but had my curiosity not gotten the better of my the chocolate hab would have surely been lost or maybe it would have pushed up but i wouldn't want to risk it :(
 
yeah I believe they will, I went through and removed the excess soil in all the plants with a tiny piece of soft plastic so I didn't disturb or hurt the seeds, it was a very tedious lesson to say the least and probably unnecessary but I worry to much. :D
 
Seriously - they'll find their way to the surface. I'd be much more concerned if they were too shallow.
 
I don't even do 1/4 with mine. I just add a drop of soil over the top since the roots grow downward anyway and haven't had any problems yet.
 
1/8th of an inch seems to be the general rule of thumb, or 3.175mm for us metric folk. The .175 probably wouldn't matter that much though.:lol:
 
Yeah this year after I changed away from paper towels I laid 1/8" of soil in an old tray, arranged my seeds then lightly covered them with soil. Once they hook and straighten into the cell they go. Near the end I let them get up to 2 inches long before putting them in a cell under light, Then buried them so less then an inch showed to get the roots to the bottom from the door.
 
Keep in mind, some folks plant their seeds 1/2" deep on purpose, thinking being the more soil the seedling has to plow through to sprout, the better chance the seed coat will come off, which results in fewer stuck seed heads.

How's that for a run-on sentence! :lol:
 
You really don't even need to cover them at all. I know that's going to be hard to swallow for most people, but that's how I did it this season and I'm looking at 550 nasty superhot plants budding and flowering like crazy. I can't bring them outside until early June when the frost nights are behind us!!

I used grow plugs, so I would place the germinated seedling in the hole – that's that!!

I can't help to smile when I hear talk of germinated seedling's planting depths. I guess it may be comforting to know the little guys are all covered up – snug as a bug.
 
DownRiver said:
Keep in mind, some folks plant their seeds 1/2" deep on purpose, thinking being the more soil the seedling has to plow through to sprout, the better chance the seed coat will come off, which results in fewer stuck seed heads.
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+1 DR
 
I had a major problem last season when I only "lightly dusted" my seeds with seedling mix -- ended up with a lot of seedlings that didn't shed their seed coat without a little assistance. Planted this year's crop deeper and the problem went away. Just my experience...
 
I just removed the seeds from about 7 plants so we'll say those were to shallow, as of this evening I have 73 sprouts 45 under light and the rest are still hooked but their up and it looks like they shook their seed, I did add a little soil to the ones that hung on to the seed figured they were to shallow.

More to come as they progress.

I'm mixing Fish fertilizer 1/4 teaspoon to 1 gallon or 1/4 strength and plan on spraying tomorrow morning about an hour before turning the lights on, any thoughts on this?
 
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