Yup, bird said it. Males are no good other than pollenating. You don't need to pollenate unless you want seeds or to cross a plant. So that's really not needed info for you. Females produce the buds, hermies will too but they will pollenate as well so i'd just kill those or take them farrrr away from my other plants. Once you get a male you'd wanna take it out of your grow area so it doesn't pollenate your females. Two things happen when a female gets pollenated. It gets LOADED with seeds, but that's nto even the bad thing. The bad thing is, the plant extremely decreases in THC because it has to produce the seeds. So that explains the male/female things. You should check out the signs of males and females.
Secondly, germinating i always use a papertowel. Some do use soil or starter plugs bud i'd rather know my plants coming up beforei put it in the soil rather than waiting. I just take a paper towel, put the seed in it, fold the paper towel in a mannor that the seed won't come out, then wet the paper towel but not too much, then stick it in a tupperware container or either a ziploc bag. After you do that you can put the ziploc/container in the top of your closet where no light goes and you can check it daily for sprouts and to make sure the paper towel is still moist.
Although, if you're going to plant, i'd wait till i got 2 or three seeds that way you'll have good chances of 1-2 females. And if you only have the supplies for 1 plant, just take your best female and grow her.
As far as indoor/outdoor growing, it's most likely too late for you to try outdoor growing due to the season change. So indoor would probably be your best bet right now. Then you're looking at costs too. Sufficient lighting, sufficient air circulation, and other nute/soil/pot expenses. The lights vary in cost, they can be half cheap to quite expensive, all depends on the wattage, lums and type of light. THe size of the light depends on how big or small of a grow space you had. to start 2-3 plants and end up growing the 1 best one, or even 2 plants, you wouldn't need a big grow space at all. Also the fan size depends on how many cubic feet your grow space would be. YOu want the air in the grow space to be circulated 2 times a minute. SO say you had 20 cubic feet and a fan that blew air 20 cubic feet per min, you'd wnat 2 of those so that it changes the air twice. There's quite a bit of things you'd need to know to start growing other than this, but just feel free to ask any questions. The only dumb question is the one you dont' ask. hope this helped you some and didn't just confuse you lol. take care.
~Burn One~
Dewayne