plant your seeds half an inch below soil surface (1st knuckle of pointer finger is my guide) and keep soil warm (65f+) and moist...never soaked or dry...mosit and warm is the key. they'll sprout (break surface) in 3-5 days...some a few days longer. after 12-14 days, replant. i plant into the 1 gal pots they'll be growing until sexing time...by then they're rootbound and the females ready for 5's or the ground...compost heap for the males.