Now that it’s almost time to get your seeds out…

Generally speaking, it is still too early to plant your outdoor gardens. Too early for vegetables or marijuana. In Denver, it is usually Mother’s Day before it is safe to plant outside. I too am anxious to get going. Watch the night-time low temps. When they stay above 38˚ it will be time to get the garden plans moving. I have seen Denver weather act as a spoiler, many times in the past: snow or hail into June: high winds and heavy downpours of rain at any time, in any month. The weather can always be difficult, here on the Front Range.

Are you going with peat pots or plastic containers? Peat pots you’ll plant straight into the ground or into an intermediate (sexing) container. With plastic, you’ll have to use a spoon to carefully dig out all of the young germinant (tap root too) within about 2 days after germination, very gently. Label everything…be careful to correctly label, with name and date, all your containers. It only takes between 4 days and, oh, two weeks for a viable seed to pop. You’ll have to figure on trying to germinate 30 seeds to be sure to end up with 10 to 12 girls. You could easily get 18 boys out of 30 germinated seeds. With older seeds, many just won’t pop (germinate). Putting ’em in the refridgerator, using willow bark dust, soaking seeds in hydrogen peroxide…I simply put a pot seed in the mud and keep it moist. I recommend filling peat pots with store bought seed germinating soil. Label your results. Fresh seeds from last season’s crop (late September – mid October) are now 5 1/2 to 6 1/2 monts old. Even with these “fresh seeds” you won’t achieve 100% germination…probably a 90 to 95% rate. Lets say you do get 95% of your seeds that pop (out of 100) of those, you can reasonably expect, maybe, 38 to 45 females. With older seeds, expect a lower germination rate. Also, with older seeds, it seems to me that I have more males…a higher ratio of males to females. I have no data on this, it just seems this way to me.

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Clones don’t have as much energy or vibrancy as a seedling. Clones do not have a tap root, only horizontal roots. I only like clones for their genetics. I always end up with seed grown males (I know their genetics because I’ve labeled everything). I can pick out a good looking male and use that plant to pollinate a clone-girl. I discuss this in my book. It is easy to grow a totally sensi crop by eliminating ALL of the males. However, I like to pollinate one branch of one or two females. This ensures me a bunch of seeds for next season.

Even with very old seeds, if you can get 10 or 15% to germinate, you’ll have “saved” that species. Those genetics will be intact, if you can get even one seed to pop, either a boy or a girl plant, through plant husbandry. So, three years from now, 15 years from now, you’ll be glad you put a good label to everything. Again, use a very light and airy rooting soil to germinate seeds in. If you are using those small plastic germinating flats…you will have to remove those young-uns soon after they pop. If you use peat pots, you can grow the seedling in them for, maybe 15 days before you have to up-pot those plants. I wish I could eliminate this next step…but I’ll have to up-pot these seedlings into a medium size container to allow it to grow up. I gotta sex ’em. This is not as much fun as it sounds.