Beans should be rinsed thoroughly and not overcrowded in the jar. A TRAY Spread soaked seeds evenly in homemade or commercial trays with plastic mesh or fiberglass screen bottoms. The mesh should be fine enough to keep small seeds from falling through. Drain with the tray tilted so that surface tension is relieved. As with jar instructions above, small seeds usually need to be rinsed or sprayed with lukewarm water often enough to keep moist, but beans and larger seeds should be thoroughly rinsed with lukewarm water at least twice a day and not overcrowded.
Sprouting seeds are mini-gardens, and NO garden likes to be drowned in water.
Keep sprouts slightly damp, but never dripping wet. If you have several trays, they can be stacked on top of one another, covered with a burlap cloth and watered through only the top tray. Again, pay special attention to beans. A wick can be created by rolling a paper towel and placing one end in a container of water and the other on top of a tray or stack of trays which have been covered with a paper towel. When the water container is higher than the trays, the water will travel down the towel to the lower surface.