How many seeds per straw?

[Diesel840]

Hi all. While checking out other forums, poster after poster would comment on the quality of a chemovar, judging it on a single seed.

Now, I know most here pop at least a few seeds, if not the entire straw or two... But, I'm curious. How many seeds did you pop per chemovar when you first grew? Also, have your seed germination habits changed and if so, when and why?

Diesel840

 

[Diesel840]

Excluding my first grow, my first few I'd pop one seed. Then I went to entire straws. Now, I pop a few seeds.

 

[Mr. Brown]

I pop one seed when I grow fem or auto seeds and three seeds when I grow regular seeds

But I would love to pop the whole straw at once

MB

 

[Tom bolenate]

Usually 5 to 10 with fresh beans.
15 to 20 with older seeds when i expect a low germination rate.
I have +8 yo MRN seeds that still pop with a 30 to 50 % rate....

 

[lozac123]

So I am extremely limited in numbers, I still live in a very illegal state so I grow two plants just in case I do get caught, I can point out it is just for personal consumption- which it is.

Because of this I started planting 4 seeds of a regular line, or two of a feminized line. I will reduce to two once they start flowering. However, I do find just smoking on the one strain causes a bit of burnout so this run I am changing things up altogether- both in growing style and having several different cultivars going. I germinated one of each strain- this totally goes against whether I can judge a strain or not, but I am hoping the one plant will give me a rough guide on if its a line I want to explore further. So that is the answer to your first question, one plant isnt enough to judge a cultivar, but it will give me an idea on if its a line I want to explore.

For germination, I honestly have an extremely successful rate, but again I am going to have to change this up next run. I normally soak the seeds in a shot glass of water for 12-24h, then put in a paper towel in a plasic sandwich bag and then place it in a warm area, like a hot airing cupboard. I've had around a 95%+ germ rate doing it this way. However, I have moved from living soil to hydro, and germinating them via paper towel and placing the seedling into a rockwool cube didnt work that well for me. I managed to break the taproot on three of the four seedlings whilst doing so. Fortunately they are fine now, I did lose one that was a slow developer anyway, but the rest have recovered now.

In the future I will soak for 12-24h hours, but will probably put the seed straight into a cube or do the paper towel method, but hang the baggie so gravity can straighten out the taproot.

 

[thaseus92]

depends on the seedbank, for the most i would say u can water 1/3 more than you really need in case they wont germ.
MNS germ rate was a lot better then anyone else except humboldt seed company.
Had like 80% germ rate within MNS, only Humboldt beat that down to atm 100% germ rate within over 30 seeds so far.
BUT if you compare the price i paid was like 1buck per MNS to 10 bucks for 1 Humboldt seed.

I use the same method every time, towel in a small light safe container seeds between them. fill with water until all seeds are under water and put it in a warm place and let the water evaporate slowly. befor the towel is dried up most of the seeds already popped if not just refill water to remaining seed level and do it again.

 

[axiom]

Generally 200 per type with a maximum of 5 types on any given grow .
Total 1000 females maximum per cycle

 

[dankd]

i finally said f it, planting four seeds will take ten years to find a keeper. most i can do now is 13 in the closet space. last run (jordan of the islands) i had cloned eight females and had them all in the mother cupboard waiting for harvest/selection. only one was worth keeping the rest were low potency and/or burnout and/or nasty terps