Hello everyone. Newbie to sprouting with buckwheat issue!

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Hi everyone, time to introduce myself and also a question!

My name is Charlotte and I'm in the UK. I've been sprouting for around three

months now, and would love to expand my knowledge about what has quickly become

a daily diet for me.

I've been using organic seeds for all my sprouting. It's a readily available

brand here in the UK called Geo Biologico (s seeds). Everything has grown

really well with little debris in the dry seed and very few that don't sprout.

I've been reading Sprout Peoples brilliant instructions alongside the packet

instructions (and the accompanying Geo book I bought). The instructions have

tallied more or less, although Sprout Peoples are of course much more definitive

and have the great photographs and videos.

So far, so good, until it's come to buckwheat...

My buckwheat seeds are very deep dark brown. They pretty much remind me of

little beech nuts, with a hard shell that is inedible. The Geo instructions and

book told me to soak overnight, and that sprouting time is 10 - 14 days. This

doesn't correspond at all with any of the info online! I dutifully soaked my

first batch then waited and waited. Ten days in, I had just four tiny sprouts.

Having read Sprout Peoples instructions, and looking at some youtube videos, I

figured that my instructions were all wrong so I've started again.

This time I paid attention to the rinsing and the 'thick syrupy' liquid I should

be able to remove. There is none! They're just hard little brown nut-like seeds

with no starchy/syrupy liquid on soaking. I assume that this is that they're

unhulled seeds rather than 'groats'? I'm guessing anyway.

I've given them an hour soak time and a good rinse and we're on day one post

soak and rinse. And I'm doing a lot of head scratching. They look like buckwheat

in shape but they're darker in colour and they clearly aren't behaving like I'm

told! The seeds are well in date by the way, and as far as I know they've been

well stored...

Can anyone give me any ideas at all please with growing them? I will dutifully

keep rinsing and nurturing these little chaps in the meantime!