Yo Ho Ho N,
I am guilty of quitting on a few beans myself. Last year I put some beans into peat plugs early in the spring. I waited on two of the beans long after the others had popped. Out of sheer frustration I tossed them after seeing nothing for better than three weeks.
I actually ignored the little buggers as I really did just toss them into the mulch pile next to the greenhouse. It was several weeks after that when I was grabbing some bark for my bromiliads that I noticed one of the beans had sprouted just recently. It could not have been more than two days above the soil.
I learned my lesson, and now I do use a warming waterproof pad, and I will wait up too and including a full month. So yeah, it do happen.
As a side note, I have successfully stored beans for better than ten years, but I do think that after a few years they do start to lose some ginger. It might also be that genetically some are able to out wait serious droughts. I hold to the idea that Sativa's are more likely to survive the longest, but that is just a theory...
smoke in peace
KK:cool2: