Sorry to hear about your friend Don.

The smaller seeds germinated 100 % for me, the other variety was probably my fault as I don't think they were quite laying down properly in the propagator! I only sowed 3 and one of them came up. So i don't think thats fair statistically speaking, for me to rate, as I probably should have sowed more but am running out of space. They were up very quickly anyway and are healthy plants.

Take care Don x