i use a tray and heat mat (plugged in) with a dome covering the tray

keeps the soil temp up, sprouts out in 3 days, little babes harden in the sun automatically

just bury them in small pots, very light mix or almost all perlite and vermiclulite,, dash of soil

this gives you an outdoor ready plant, 99% success sprout rate with fem seeds

exchange dome for hardware cloth to keep birds from nipping the shoots off until a couple inches tall

then transplant to containers or wherever else outdoors

i put mine into cups or small planters, water, wait, wait for roots to spread, transplant into something bigger. all outside.

don't listen to people when they say the roots are delicate. poppy roots are delicate, you cannot transplant those without killing them.


but pot, is very hardy and them roots can take a nice beating before being killed. very easy to work with.
i've had plants with roots entwined, all tangled up with another plants roots, just slowly and carefully pulled them apart, some broke but the plants lived.

in fact, most vegetable and garden plant's roots are very easy to handle without killing them.

you'll get it with time. set it and forget it!

The bottle domes create a dry zone under them unless lifted up frequently and watered, exactly wrong for delicate germinating plants. The secret to in situ outdoor germination is the same strategy nature uses- mass seeding. A mature female can produce upwards of 10,000 seeds. If only two grow to maturity it's at the break even point. Figure 99% of the seeds you plant outdoors in the wild will never mature. Given what seeds sell for, this means you probably have to make your own. But remember, a single female can make 10,000 seeds- if 1% survive that's 100 mature plants. The math is compelling although you have to live with some seeded dope from a seed plot. It's still good smoke, just a pain to clean and enjoy. A small seed plot with perhaps 10 males and 10 females can supply a massive quantity of seed- should be enough for several years.