In elementary, we soaked the pinto beans in wet paper towel to germinate them with great success. West tx, hard water, piped in from lake 150 miles away. Always worked.
Seemed like everyone germinated. You plant a garden, most are germinating seeds they plant in the soil.
I think its over thought process that most methods work when patience leaves the seed alone and let nature do its own thing.
Its not a complicated thing, people have been planting seeds for 100s of years before bro science and the internet were born.
