Soaked seed in paper towel and this seed (1 of 1) cracked in less than 24 hours with much vigor. NOTE: I counted day 1 as the day the seedling broke the surface of the grow pod medium, but in reality it took about 7 days from seed cracking, to transplanting to grow pod and then seedling sprouting. So you could add 7 to all of my day numbers to get "from seed to harvest" days.