Barney’s Farm Biscotti Mintz 4/25

Bfreezy This is a little funky. I’ll be starting indoors, but then I have to move to an outdoor, uninsulated shed. I’m in zone 7b. Environment is going to be difficult to control. Im probably starting too early, but I’m hoping hard that I can keep temp up for now. Then about halfway through flower it’s going to get ungodly hot. This will be the first time I’ve tried to use an air conditioner. Anyway… Placed seed between two (cheap) paper towels dampened with distilled water and inside a plastic bag which was misted and left open. Hope to retain heat and humidity but still let it breathe. Set on top of a heat mat set to 78 degrees. Placed inside a dark tent. Once I have a half inch taproot I’ll put it in a solo cup filled with Fox Farm Happy frog amended with 25% perlite. I’ll put a humidity dome on top of it until it breaks ground. Edit: 24 hours later I checked the seed. It looked like the shell had cracked but no taproot was visible. The paper towel had dried out a little bit, so I missed it with distilled water and put it back in the bag. Edit 2: 4/20 9pm So about 36 hours after placing the seed between the paper towels, I checked it again. A small taproot was visible, maybe 1/16 of an inch. It could’ve stayed in the bag for another 24 hours till I got that 1/4 to 1/2 inch tap root, but I wanted to be able to plant on 4/20, and I figured it wouldn’t hurt anything to go ahead and drop that bean. I had a solo cup filled with happy frog already waiting to go. I made a hole with my pinky, down to the first knuckle and sprinkled some great white mycorrhizae in. Then I very carefully picked the seed up with tweezers and placed it taproot down into the hole. I covered it with dirt and gave the whole thing some water, now switched to tap water, run through a bougie blue to remove chlorine/chloramine, and pH’d down to 6.3. Solo cup plenty drainage holes. I covered the whole thing with a humidity dome made out of a 1 gallon water jug. Put the whole apparatus on a heat mat set to 78° and I zipped up tent. I’ll keep it moist and dark until it breaks ground Edit 3: what a stoner…I germinated the seed, planted it in soil, and kept it dark. Despite that, 4 days after sowing it broke ground. It’s now sitting in the tent 4/28 watered with distilled water, not ph’d 4/30 removed heat mat. Soil is pretty dry so I watered with tap water run through a bougie blue (dechlorinator) pH’d to 6.3