Procrastination? I prefer to think of it as shooting for the moon. 
You were supposed to smile, that's all.
I have only one seed I'm attempting to nurture at the moment. Actually it's a cutting, and I can't figure out if it's slowly dying or struggling to make roots and come back. There are three leaves, two are yellowish but still thick and have stubbornly not fallen off. It's in the sun and has a little soil at the bottom and I haven't a clue how moist to keep it.
I have no sense for this yet.
Did you use rooting hormone on your clipping? If not, it's too late now, because it must be used in the first few hours after the cutting is taken or it will not be absorbed into the tissues. Not all types of plants need it though. Either way, don't give up. Get some help from science, if necessary.
Direct sun is generally not right for rootless clippings, though. It will be fine with indirect sun, until it has a root or two. There will be no photosynthesis, until a root forms, so the sun does nothing but dry it out (although direct sun does hinder some fungal colonies which are your main enemy). Warmth from below (the rooting media should be kept warmer than the surrounding air), high humidity in the surrounding air (in the neighborhood of one hundred percent humidity is usually best, so this means a covering) and sterile conditions, especially freedom from fungi are the most important things to provide when taking cuttings. (I actually scrub up and use surgeons gloves when I take cuttings and all my containers, scissors and coverings have been boiled and the cuttings are immediately dipped into a container of fresh growth hormone to aide in rooting, then placed immediately into sterile media and covered with glass. Obviously, there are certain types of plants, especially woody perennials that are not so picky. For instance, I have seen willow, basically any salix, prunings root right into the ground where they were thrown.) The only other major concern is the time of year you took your cutting. Plants are naturally loaded with growth and especially rooting hormones in spring. In the fall, plants are generally trying to go dormant and cuttings may not root well.
Even if your cutting does not "take" (grow roots) do not abandon the idea of starting our own plants. There are very few plants that can not be propagated asexually (as in taking cuttings). The most important benefit to this type of propagation is that the plant you root will have the exact same DNA and growth/color/size and flowering habits (and all other characteristics) as the parent plant. It will be an exact copy.
My most recent successes in growing from cuttings have been Clematis. I took multiple cuttings from seven different cultivars last year and I have at least one plant successfully dormant, all outdoors, from all seven types. One of the Chinese types I have, all five of the cuttings I took rooted successfully.
