I have grown plants of this species with little problem. Even older seeds seem to have no problem gerrminating which surprised me. The only difficulty I noted is that during germination the hard seed coats sometimes trap seedlings trying to emerge. But this occurred little. Soaking seeds in water for a while (changing the water every day to keep fungus probs down) can soften the seed coat a bit and illiminate this problem. I found this species pretty easy to germinate. Jared R. Shortman jared@libcong.com business orders respond to: tucgrow@earthlink.net