FAILED - First hydroponic grow

@BeefWellingtons, I'm going to try the rockwool again just since I have it on hand. But from here out I'm switching to rapid rooters.

@BeefWellingtons,I'll try your approach.

@burnerac, yeah rockwool is not the best route. I think rapid rooters are, but I can't afford to buy 50 when all I need are 2 or3. I've had 2 or 3 germinate upside down in rockwool and they all died, so now I help the out by placing then into it with tap root down. Soaking them in water (room temp) for 12 or 16 hours or so first before putting them into the paper towel and in between two saucers seems to work good. I also put the saucers into heated seedling tray which provides just enough heat for this sucker's to pop. Need to keep a close eye on them so they don't dry out. Also, cheap paper towels work better than the expensive ones.

@BeefWellingtons, Good plan.

@iMeus, I am thinking I didn't have it warm enough. I do the soak too.

@dancingshrubbery, Soaked Grodan Mini-block 2"x2" for 10 seconds in pH 5.5 solution of Neptune's Harvest Tomato & Ved and General Hydroponics RapidStart. Inserted one ILGM AK-47 seed point down and put square into a quart sized ziplock bag.

@burnerac,That's unfortunate. How did you do the germination?

@dancingshrubbery, broke the rockwool in half last night and the shell isn't even cracked. I'm just not doing great with germination. Will start my last seed this week.