Agriculture Reference
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Seeds must also be viable if they are going to germinate.
Never use white seeds. These are immature. Find seeds that have white
and grey markings or another color apart from white.
Crushed seeds will also not germinate. Old seeds may have
trouble germinating. Always try to use the best seeds you can find.
TRANSPLANTING
During the stages between germination and vegetative growth
the grower may find that he/she needs a bigger pot. Transplanting is
done nearly always as early as possible. One example of a transplant is
when the seedlings are ready in their rockwool SBS tray. The seedling
is lifted from the tray along with the rockwool cube and placed in
another grow medium such as soil, or maybe even a hydroponics set-
up (more about hydroponics later). That is called a transplant. There is
not much of problem when transferring the cube and seedling to the
soil. Just dig a small hole in the soil for the cube and place it in. Cover
the cube with soil. The cube will not effect your plant's growth and
will add support if anything.
If you have started your seedlings in soil then you may want
to transplant the plant to a bigger pot. The problem with transplanting
is that people like to move the soil and roots along with the plant from
one pot to another. This means that the plant must be lifted out with
the soil in place. How is this done? Well there are two ways. The first
way is that one does not need to remove the plant from the smaller pot
at all. All you have to do is cut away the base of the small pot and
