Seeds not germinating

[tomScro]

Has anyone ever come across small white worms in their germinating seeds?

Thats what I'm finding in mine when I squeeze them open.

Some seeds smell really off.

Can anyone help with this?

[space cadet 101]

really minute little buggers, I think they eat the lining out of the inside of the seed husk.... Problem is sometimes that membrane is wrapped around the sprout (so they can chew into the sprout itself). I usually see them when everything is too wet...

Merry X-mas & good luck..

[tomScro]

Thanks space cadet 101 They are little buggers and the moisture thing makes sense.

All the best to you for the season.

[the.weed.fisherman]

I have never heard of "seed worms", Worms that appear from inside the shell.

Would I be able to use these so called 'seed worms' to catch a fish???

Let them grow a little, before you play with them.

I bet they would like you if they lived for long enough.

If they really are a parasite, it sounds like you have infected everything in your house by now.

Maybe you could post a pic of 'the seed worms' for us.

 

 

the.weed.fisherman

[Frazz]

definitely need photos of these seed worms please ...

the Daily Telegraph will even hold the presses just to get a photo of these cursed demon worms

Rupert Murdoch says " Fuck Voicemails I want photos of 'seed worms' "

 

Please, PLEASE, post us some clear photos of the seed worm

 

[tomScro]

Space cadet 101 nailed the problem pretty well.

Excess moisture was most probably the culprit.

The worms or parasites are really small, probably 2 or 3 millimeters long by 1/2 a mill thick and white like a maggot only smooth skinned like a worm.

Can't help with photo's as I have eliminated the moisture problem and I am not disturbing anything in hope something pops up.

More than likely the little bugs are not there now due to lack of moisture.

I'm sure someone here can give a scientific explanation if you know what I mean.

Would love to help with a photo but it's out of my league.

[space cadet 101]

I think they're in the soil mix (not in the seed), like a bacteria would be (fungus, mould spores).

they're exactly as tom describes them. I use searles potting mix, maybe that has something 2 do with it.

I don't c them very often, like I said just if the mix gets way 2 wet.

[tomScro]

Hey space cadet 101.

Some of the medium I used came from a bio dynamic, bury horns in the ground sort of thing.

Point is , it's full of live organisms.

Bugs might have originated there?

[space cadet 101]

sounds like ur on 2 it tom....all the best 2 u & everyone 4 2012...

[brick]

"Thats what I'm finding in mine when I squeeze them open."

 

Squeeze them open? If you are squeezing them then what you could be seeing/doing is squishing the embyro out of the seed pod. That would look like worms.

 

I can't see any bug penetrating the hard outer shell of the seed to lay eggs of microscopic proportions to have maggotty things coming out of them. BOCICBW