Reply to Burjin, try soaking the seeds in a 10% bleach solution for 1 hour, this is a method i am now using to try and germinate some tepin seeds... Cage a Kurrawong feed him the HAB seeds and wait with a small shovel.. this is the method I will be using next. Put said Kurrawong in compost after strangling as the one I have come visiting has developed a taste for Chiles. Prune after your last chile comes off the bush, then as dead wood occours. I repot my overwintered Habs in (River loam-Yellow-clayey 20% Coffee Grounds 10%, Peat moss 50%, Good potting mix 19%-Not cheep Dynamic lifter 1%-pelletised chicken manure..wish I could get that Elephant S**t but Woolgoolga is about 8 hrs drive from Taronga park Zoo. actually did it just now again, I do this several times a year. Repot that is .. No complaints yet.. Luke in OZ