My dates sprouted!!!

Holy crap!  I had dates in the fridge that were years old.  I saved the seeds, watched a video, put the seeds in wet paper towel in a ziploc in a warm cupboard, forgot about them, and then recently discovered they had sprouted!!!

So I planted them in pots and left them in the basement office where it's a little cooler than the house.

They can't survive outside in our zone so I don't know what I'm going to do with them.  Maybe I can build a little personal greenhouse for them.  

I want to grow my own dates dammit!!