Very sad to hear about the crushed/cracked seeds. @6 orders in a row from the doc to me all with crushed seeds and germ rates way below norm. The cd case packaging in every instance, where the seeds were allowed to be loose within the case. I emailed 3 times to dr, about it and never got a response, even as growster at his forum. So i've been using Growshopalien and they encase the seeds in a way that they can not be crushed. I'm currently waiting 3 weeks for my medicine man and that's not acceptable to me either, but if I get it it's better than crushed seeds. Fortunate I read this thread as was just about to order from dr, since my alien seeds haven't shown. Dr C is very speedy I must say, and also dependable, excepting the packaging style. Too bad! Man do I miss HS!!!