Never dig up seeds. Either grow em or don't or you kill them. Any moisture triggers them to grow then drying them just kills em. Yes I am speaking from experience I experimented with about 1000 bag seeds just to see what would happen with different methods and stress. Always store seeds in mason jars. Some people freeze, which works well, but they must stay frozen. Some keep in fridge, again must stay in fridge. The ones I froze germinated like jumping beans. I freeze all of fembots as I only breed for fems. Fems grow so much better, and make some kick ass bud, which is always bigger than the original.