Presoak?

[Joseph Stalin]

Hello everyone !

Wonderful news to share, my douglah and y 7 pod just sprouted within 24 hours!

24 hours! XD!

I did presoak these in normal tapwater for 10 hours.

It ended up saving me 5 days of time!

What are your guys thoughts on presoaking seeds?..

 

[cory_huck]

sounds like you got some GREAT seeds! Dont get used to that!

 

[compmodder26]

sounds like you got some GREAT seeds! Dont get used to that!

I agree. I had my bhut jolokia pop within 2 days, but all the rest of my seeds took at least a week.

 

[MGOLD86]

Yea that is pretty amazing. Congrats.

I don't think it makes that much of a difference. Out of 250 seeds i soaked about half and got the same times across the board. If I have time and patience to soak then I guess I would, but with 50 varieties it is pretty time consuming.

 

[Datil]

What are your guys thoughts on presoaking seeds?..

I dont think is really necessary to speed up things, can be useful to soften shells on harder/older seeds though.

Cya

Datil

 

[S.S.Tupperware]

No, they get moist when their planted, if there suspect I might rinse with a H2O2 mix...

 

[POTAWIE]

Pre-soaking just starts the process so it was basically 1.5 days. Chile seeds are thin and don't really need softening like thicker seeds. You could use chamomile tea as a fungicide, or for harder type seeds you could use black tea which has tanins that soften seed shells

 

[RocketMan]

Yep, I did a 24 hour pre-soak in plain tap water then 2 days on damp coffee filters to get to where i sae sime tails and then into the cells. Seedlings seemed to almost jump out of the dirt they so wanted to grow.

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[patrick]

Getting the "tail" out of the seed shell is germination.

I've soaked seeds once or twice and didn't see much difference in germination rates. I would stick with water or maybe a weak tea solution. I've read on here people soaking seeds in fertilizers, Superthrive, and all kinds of things. Not sure if those type of things do much good.