Some seeds fall to the muddy bottom and germinate later in the year.

And these seeds will be able to germinate, we believe, with many of the species, in thousands of years, and certainly in hundreds of years.

Surely Allah causes the grain and the stone to germinate He brings forth the living from the dead and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living that is Allah ! how are you then turned away .

And then we grow these things, and we tell people, back in the countries where these seeds have come from, Look, actually we're not just storing this to get the seeds later, but we can give you this information about how to germinate these difficult plants.