to get their little night caps on they are still in the winter mode just kind of they do a lot of standing around a lot of preening a lot of eating standing out in the stuff for last forty minutes wish i had a big down jacket problems into the controlled environment here where there are no predators for it to do is like giving a little ice wipe off any dirt the little ice and all that moisture out of  and problems careful don't burn yourself ask your parents kids s talk let us have this fragrant choi under the lights here and it hasn't come up you know we've been doing these flat all you know two weeks has gone by and i still haven't seen that letters come up as i've said light less can be a light germ dependent germinate or which is what we're doing here we've got one thin layer of paper moistened on top of these seeds so they can see the light near red light stimulates germination in the lettuce seeds he's been on the cotton for two days now and i don't see a single sprout  this is the fragrant choy lettuce that i got from the asian seed company and it's supposed to have jasmine scented lettuce leaves you know it's a lack to cause the t v like any other lettuce but it sounded like it had a fragrance to that i thought that was pretty cool so i'm thinking i might have some seed because the lettuce is fairly easy to sprout particularly you know even if it won't grow for you a good should sprout under these conditions here old little email to the company there if this doesn't come up the other thing i may try however is warm up a little before i pull the plug on the project  most lettuces inhibited about seventy two degrees in the germination will slow down or stop once you get up to the five it's really a cool weather germinate or that's why you generally grow in the cooler kaleidoscope of colors the problem is they don't seem to want to come up for me nothing in the instructions says that they're particularly difficult but they never work for me so i started looking at these guys and i thought well you a little bit of fun ness i could get that outer seed coat off dormant chemical dormancy and you really have to soak that out of the seed coat to make them work so i've done is i've set up a little experiment here with three cups i've got four clocks where the only thing i did was clip the top i just left it at that and i got to sew twelve hour or so so just clipped you know just to let the water in this is this would be saying that the what if the water gets in and it sprouts just fine then we're going to say that this coating has no inhibit siv qualities for the germination  once they're open to the water so these were i was a little more careful with the water because they obviously started soaking it up right away and i don't want to turn mushy peas of expanded about a third of their size already and there are still looking good not too mushy so in this case if if the clipped ones don't sprout you know they've got the water inside and these ones do sprout i'd say that the seed coat does have some inhibitive qualities to  which allows me to deliver my factoid of the week so let's take a look at the carob seeds this is kara you might remember from the seventy's this was going to be the big chocolate substitute spain is the main grower for and again hard shiny coat very water resistant and the first time i tried these i so pleased for two or three months and they did not take any water up they did not change size they did not mold they did not the water didn't even get bad so they seemed to almost have a microbial quality to them soaking in that water which should be probably investigated and then after two months of soaking i nicked a couple of them put them back in the water and immediately like the next day they started swelling within a few more days they were sprouting that's what we've got  another day at which point i pot of them up about three eighths of an inch deep for a nice big seed like that