024Weezy: You have to understand that I'm old and my hands shake like a dog passing peach seeds. After breaking a few tap roots I got away from germinating my seeds out of the grow pods and I've had few problems since. I poke a hole in the top of the grow pod with a bamboo shish-ka-bob stick, put in the seed, pointy end down and close of the top as much as possible. Try it you might like it.