Daylily,
There's not a whole lot of information out there on growing from seeds. My first attempt was a 50/50 success story. I put 5 seeds in a soiless potting mixture. Jiffy-Mix to be exact. First I soaked the seeds in water for 24 hours, put in the Jiffy-Mix and put on a heat pad with a plastic lid on it and set the pad at 80 degrees. 31 days later I had two that sprouted. I waited a couple of days and then moved them up to a 4X4 by 5 inch tall containers containing Miracle Grow potting mix......and boy did they take off!
One of the remaing seeds rotted and the other two are still germinating.
Then I find a site that says to "Boil one qt. of water and pour this over the seeds. Leave seeds in this for five days. Fill a flat with a good potting mix, plant the seeds one inch apart and set on a heat mat at 95 degrees turning the pad off at night. They may start to sprout in a few weeks up to a few months. Then dig them up and pot up to larger pots and keep the soil moist."
I'm now trying a new stuff called Cape Smoke. It's a long story but you can Google it and get the answer from a lot of different sources.
Good luck and keep us posted on your success.

Thanks - I am going to keep working to get them all going - maybe we need to keep things well documented to start our own web info site... All I have is a warm sunny window so I am starting there. I might need to get a heating pad and see how it works.

Daylily,
The new model heat pads are required to have an automatic shut-off after 3 hours.Makes it hard to keep a constant temp when you have to go reset the switch every three hours, so I went to my Salvation Army and Goodwill stores and bought the old type for 2 bucks each. You can set them at 4 different temps and they'll stay at one constant temp until you overload the circut and you burn your house down.I have 5 of them. Also you can use a regular mercury thermometer from Wal-mart to keep the temp at 80 degrees or better,
Then I went to the Wal-mart cake center and bought a 1/2 sheet cake container. It's a black rectangular plastic bottom and clear plastic top to hold a birthday cake.They're 20 inches by 15 inches. I put my old heat pad on the black bottom, my seeds in Jiffy-mix in used plastic meat trays (Wal-mart) on my heating pads and then put the dome over my trays and there ya go! You're in the banana business.
If you can't get it at Wal-Mart, you don't need it! An odd statement from an ex Kmart D.M

scarify the seed and then soak in water for 24 hours, plant them up and DONT keep them too wet. You should get close to 100% IF they are fresh seed. They should start to germinate within 2 weeks.