Off topic but...

I got my seeds from dropped fruit picked up from under someone's fence a few houses down my street. I looked up the growing instructions and they seemed complicated: apparently, you need to soak the seeds in mildly alcoholic water, to simulate germinating in fermenting fallen fruit. And you need to it for weeks, if not months.

So I did. For months! I don't remember how many, but more that three. Could have been as many as six. I was almost giving up, when they started germinating. All at once. Out of about 20 seeds I started with, about 18 germinated (I say "about" because it was years ago, I can't remember exactly). So I would say yes, they require a lot of dedication.

But now they grow like weeds. They seed themselves and I can hardly keep up destroying the shoots I don't want.