if you're serious about gardening you have to learn first how to look things up on your own...especially when it comes to the basics, such as germination. there are several ways of going about it so i suggest you type it into the search engine here and read...google is another source that will plug you into many sites offering answers that are already typed out and waiting for you...

http://users.lycaeum.org/~sky/data/mjgrowers.html