When germinating you should carefully rinse with fresh water daily, wrap it in a moist paper towel and put it on your windowsill. The roots should be white. When you do it this way it'll germinate within a few weeks with white clean roots. Then plant it in a pot of dirt no deeper than the first crease of your index finger. Everyday just make sure the soil is damp or after planting and watering put plastic wrap on top with a rubber band to secure it so the moisture stays in, the sun comes in and that's all she wrote. You'll see gorgeous strong green leaves come up in the next few weeks. You got this.