Topic: Peas/beans: ok or discard?

[Hector]

I am doing a viability test on some old heirloom seeds I found (were my late fathers, so wanted to give them a go for sentimental reasons as they were ones from him/his garden)
I put them on damp kitchen paper and covered over with thick towel and put in warm room ( so dark/warm)

Some are swelling nicely and look ok, a couple have start of blue mold on the area where sprout would come. Is this time to discard those or keep watching?

ps. I only have 3/4 of some of them, so that's why I am trying to conserve if possible, rather than chucking!

[daileg]

suggest separate the good from the possibles and treat it as a further test would have thought the whole process would be doubtfull if the seeds were older than five years 

[Robert_Brenchley]

If they rot, pick them out. If you keep going, you may well find some that germinate, and you only need a few to start with, as it's easy to save your own seed for next year.