Man I wish I was smoking some too!.....Good news man...the seed has cracked and the bean is keen!!!!

I did some "scientific" tests and "discovered" something most paramount!!!

I'm using a pH testing "kit".....not a digital meter!!

What I was doing wrong was to rinse the small testing vial [ a 1 millilitre flask] with TAP WATER in between Ph tests......My tap water is very hard [Ph 8]...even a few drops of this hard water in the test vial was contaminating my little 1 ml of test solution and raising its pH by 1 degree....and giving me a false reading!!

Therefore the solution I knocked up for the first 3 seeds that failed...was probably around pH 4.5...instead of 5.5....

urika!!