I am pretty new but I had the hugest issue with starting from seed, I always did soil from clones.
I recently started my first grow from seed and they are doing good, I think.

Take two paper towels the nice thick ones, fold them about three or four times to make squares small enough to fit in a plastic sandwich baggy, fold both of them the same size, fill a gallon with water and let it sit a few days, then adjust your ph to between 5.5 and 6.5, after your water has sat a few days and the water is ph'd, wet both napkins but not dripping wet, place the seeds in between the napkins, place napkins in the sandwich baggy, press all the air out seal it, and put the baggy in your sock drawer, check them daily, you should see them crack and start to grow the tap root which will have some fuzz all over it. Once your tap root is about 1/4 inch long then place them in your rockwool just deep enough to cover the top with some rockwool (which should be prepared with ph'd water before) and into an incubator the moment they pop their heads out place them under some lights (18 and 6) when the roots start to come out from the bottom then they should be good to go into the buckets.

I messed up about 20 seeds before I got them to germinate properly, this is what worked for me. I am a newbie so your might want to get some feed back from the pros here. If I am giving some wrong info please correct me, I have been getting a lot of help figure I would try to help someone.