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Look at that structure! Perfectly prepared to dance through flowering.:star-struck:

Mon pote je kiffe ta facon de travailler. Gros respect pour le boulot !!!!

I always use the same clean three-compartment baby snack container with RO-moistened coffee filters for germination. For these last three Platinum Lantz seeds, I changed the method by wrapping each seed fully in the filter “clam style” instead of leaving it exposed on top, and I raised the average germination temperature from my usual ~77°F to about 82°F. That revised setup gave me 3/3 germination. When I checked on them this morning at 41 hours, I honestly wasn’t expecting even one to be ready yet, so I was very happy to find that all three had germinated with taproots already coming out. :) I changed a couple variables this time, so I can’t say for certain whether the biggest difference was the warmer temperature, the more even moisture coverage around the entire seed, or a combination of both. The compartments are translucent, so normally I can simply lay the seeds on the coffee filters and monitor them without opening the container, and that method has worked for me for years. Since these were wrapped in the coffee filters this time, I held my phone light underneath the container to check them. I could just barely see what looked like a taproot through one of the filters, although I thought it might just be a shadow from where I had folded it. I opened the little “clam” to check, and sure enough—it was a taproot. Then I checked the other two and found all three ready to go. We’re now running five Platinum Lantz plants. The final test obviously isn’t over yet, but compared with my original attempts and the three subsequent failures, we are finally off to the races. So far it has taken 10 seeds to get me to 5 plants, with 2 seeds still left as backups. Part of me definitely wonders whether one of the seeds that didn’t make it could have carried some amazing trait I’ll never get to see, but that’s also part of the game. Survival of the fittest. And out of those first attempts, I still ended up with two plants that are absolutely killing it, so I’m feeling a lot better about where this project is headed now.