[Hang on, give him a moment - he's going to go over to his shelf to go through his seed kit, bouncing a little on his toes with excitement.
She's free to come into his hotel room properly now, of course! And once she does, he shows her the seed packet for the ube he's talking about.]

I've been wanting to hurry up and plant these, but unlike my others, they take quite some time to grow... and my patience runs thin very easily with slow growing plants.
I have never grown them before, either...

[Yes, he's doing all this while in his uniform. It's like talking about plants has made him completely forget what she's here for!
Because it has. He's so easily distracted by his interests, sorry Evangeline.]