Update
After 14 days of no action from the Zam pots, I figured I’d better exhume them and see what happened.
I didn’t take any pics but I’m sure many have done the same.
#1 and #2 were dead, black material under the seed coat, no sign of life.
#3 and #4 both had white and green showing through the crack in the seed coat so after a careful rinse, planted them back in their pots after replacing the top 2" of soil in each pot.
Now for the good though upsetting news.
The two seeds I put in pots w/o soaking sprouted!
I find this upsetting because I had believed pre-sprouting seeds in a petri dish, Rob’s Baggy Method were superior to in-pot sprouting.
Yet here are two examples saying otherwise.
It’s asking a lot that there’d be a male and female among them.
So I rolled the die and put 2 of my 4 remaining seeds into pots 2 days before the New Moon, as per the biointensive method.
If these two sprout it will cast some serious shadow on what for me, up till now, the use of alternative methods of sprouting certain plants and I will save my speculation until then.
Getting a breeding pair seems to be my goal with every grow lately, hopefully Orig #3 and Orig #4 will fully sprout in their new environment along with the latest 2, and will potentially get me 6 plants.
I also planted two seeds that fell from a TJ bud I had the other day just for fun/maybe outdoor.
TJ has no problem with alternative sprouting methods.