retarded seedling?

i have a seedling that is literally the seed on the stem. the seed is barely cracked open jsut enough so the stem can get out. Its like an inch tall and just chilling. i germinated it first and it sprouted in about a day and now its jsut growing without shredding the shell. any one else have this happen?
 

Pipe Dream

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well if you still have the seed on the stem you might need to help it shed if it doesn't get rid of it in like 24 hours I would try to rip it off here's why:

I had some sprouts do this to me recently, it's the first time it ever happened to me. Anyways they were bagseeds and I had other seedlings already growing so I decided to experiment a little bit. I tried to take off one but wasn';t to careful and basically it just ripped the seed off the stem. Mine was like yours no crack really just a hole in the seed. The other one I just let grow and figured it would shed the shell itself and it didn't. The leaves started growing inside the shell and by the time I removed the shell the leaves were all yellow. I figured it would just green up and grow normally but it never did it just died. So the next seedling I cracked that did that I waited for the shell to slightly crack and just pryed the two sides apart very carefully and the seedling is just fine.
 
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