I'm not crazy

Check out this abstract in the Academics section.  I quote:

The most effective method of breaking dormancy was to remove the seed coat totally

So my little adventure with the sugar pine seeds wasn't insane, only silly...as it appears that sugar pine is not so very hard to grow.  I'm trying again with a longer (2 month) stratification.

I took some heat for this over at GardenWeb, and now I feel vindicated.