Ya I'm growing in soil. Just a couple ounces of water once a week. I actually let the soil shrink somewhat from the pint size container before I water so the root will go searching water. I do the paper towel method for germination. Had a good size tap when I put it in the soil. The next day when it popped through the surface of the soil I saw that the seed shell were barely hanging on the starter leaves so I took a pair of tweezers and pulled them off. I wish I had taken pictures at the time. When I pulled the shells off I noticed that the leaves were like almost bleached white on the sides facing the shell. Under closer examination I saw what looked like miniature clear larvae that resembled mosquito larvae, only they were totally see through clear color and about 1/10 mm in length. There would have been no way that they could be seen with a naked eye. Anyways that's where the trouble started, then no terminal shoot. It's taken a month just for the secondary branching to start shooting, which is actually what's shooting out pistils. This was in a sealed breeders pack from Herbies. Whatever the organism was, it must have been dormant inside the seed until water activated it.
