These are 6 of the Mephisto Double Grape auto seeds I made recently. Really top shelf nuggets and a decent sized plant with a respectable yield. I've got these on a seedling heat mat and the 4 that strike me as the healthiest will get planted into 3 gallon fabric pots and grown out. These are untested so I'll have my fingers crossed they sprout.
Thank you very much @InTheShed ! I have four autos I just planted this morning I'm hoping sprout in the next few days and I'm wanting to get the environment as nice as I can make it for them. This is the meter I have. Did you not tell me you had the same one? In this photo below it shows 337 as the reading and has a X100 below that. So what is the actual Lux reading in that picture? 337 or 33,700? I do not believe it would be 33,700 as the dimmer is turned nearly all the way down.
I peeked in this morning and all four have broken ground and should be standing up this afternoon. Something I started about 6 months ago is placing the seeds with tails (1/4" long or better) into the hole sideways instead of root down. This was suggested to me by a friend on this site. It does slow the sprouting time by a day or so but 95% of the seedlings emerge from the medium with no helmet or membrane to mess with. This is attributed to the extra distance the seedling has to push through to reach the surface which gives more time to work the shell and membranes off. No scientific data to back this up just my personal experience.
