Cracking difficult seeds by hand.

After three days 14 out of 24 my seeds hadn't popped so I got out the long nose pliers and gently cracked each one, at it's seam. I looked three hours later and most of them have already started growing tails. I'll let you know if they turn out deformed.

Hmmmm. Never heard of this. Deff interested

Ive done this myself with my fingers, things turned out fine for me. I only did it because of the same reason i had a bunch of seeds that popped and a few that still felt really solid so i just gently squeezed them ( yeah right took alot of pressure ) to crack the seem slightly, and they popped soon after.

That's good to hear, were really easy to crack with long nose pliers, you get good control. It makes me wonder if it could be done sooner. I have quite a lot of seeds so may experiment for something to do.