[He shakes his head, determined that he's not finished by a long shot.]

No, no, not the sprout. That's not what I called you for. It's the soil. Remember that nothing could grow on it before. The machine that I'm about to build could change that on a larger scale. I have the model completed and now it's building the full scale prototype. I'm very close.

My apologies that I disturbed you. I thought you would need an update and that you should know that your efforts are not wasted either.