Wet paper in plastic baggy - outdated dirty practice?

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Put water in a shot glass. Put seed in. Wait 24 to 48 hrs to see the taproot come out. Pour it in a 1/4 to 1/2 inch hole in the media. Cover it up. Been working for me for a while now with near perfect germination rate. No touching root or worry about drying out too fast and paper or cotton sticking to root. Dont know how it could get much easier than that lol. Best of luck! Happy Growing!

for beginners its very easy and most guides show this methods, I use it for my other seeds too for my home growen tomatoes or chili works will. I use kitchen papers or makeup pads.. both work nicely... but now I just like to pop them directly in the soil..

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According to GD, the paper towel method has 100% success rate without user error. IME, your water source, medium source, and container source are all critical. Using a paper towel roll from in the kitchen or a napkin from a store? absolutely never. using some top shelf virgin cotton sealed as sterile in single use package imported from japan? sure. using water from your 8 stage filter or from the tap? never ever ever. Using bottled water guaranteed sterile? sure. Using a baggy from the kitchen drawer? nope. A box of baggies for seeds only in a sealed bag that you never open without a full wash then donning gloves. These type of improvements on the paper towel are where anyone can get the 100% success rate. I do get a bit over the top when I am popping something rare or valuable, but I greatly prefer popping in a cup of water and then manually placing the seeds into rockwool, tease the tap out of the cube with a heater, then right into hydro for the rest of forever until she is gone...whether that be a week or three years

The seeds from ukhta came with a germination kit which uses the filter papers as well I believe. But I still use the paper towel and ziplock method. It's how I started and I've just continued that way. I've tried other methods but didn't like them as well. The main thing with paper towel is that you need to separate it from the 2 ply so thats it's just one single piece, otherwise the roots almost always grow through the paper towel.

100% natural cotton pads, snitched from Miss makeup bag 😂 Cheap and perfect to hold moisture with air 😄