hi mate, just got caught up, loving the new indoor set up mate, very good mate,
for these seeds and seed depth it says to bury them about 6ml at the most, any deeper and they take longer to sprout, the best depth is between 4 and 6 ml, so about half a cm, thats the best depth i have found and they seem to sprout a whole lot quicker using this depth, so i plant mine no more than 6ml and i have no problems mate,
its your haunted property thats giving you the problems, you got some ghosts that dont like buds, probably some anti drug campaigner, id be ringing the priest and get an exorcism done,
your new indoor set up is great mate, looks really good, cant wait to see how this turns out, using the fish tank is a good idea mate, i got a spare tank, your giving me more ideas,
have you found planting the seeds less deep gets them sprouted sooner,
the reason this is better than the paper towel method is down to the fact that when you move the seeds from the towel you damage the tap root, it has fine hairs on it and these get damaged, just putting the seeds in the soil causes stress and this gives a higher male ratio of plants, so plating direct in the soil at a shallow depth stops this stress it also gives the seed nutrients very early on due to it been in the soil,