That's weird that yours got crushed, my dr. seeds have come in little clear hard plastic discs with cotton between them and were inside the original breeders packaging. Weren't yours sent like that? Mine were from DeSjamaan and Seedsman. Maybe yours were bigger beans inside the little plastic disc and they got crushed going thru an envelope machine at the postal distribution center somewhere, not necessarily crushed by the dr.'s people. The doc seems very cool with his customers, unlike most of the other seed distributers....