1. soak your seeds for 24hours in distilled water or R.O. then after 24 hours put in a moist paper towel. Most good beans, from experience, crack and pop with 24 hours after being soaked, put in plastic bag if you can't pay attention to it. But to answer your question, its another one of those questions that has mulitiple answers, but you probably know by now. So how did it go ? I never scrap a seed unless it doesn't do anything for a week then she's a goner