forgot to mention earlier cuz its not what i do but my friends dad who only uses FF for soil and nutes fills his flower pots with FFOF and waters, gives a few hours for soil to evenly distribute the water/dry out a fuzz, then pops seeds in, i believe he said over the years hes had about 85% of beans pop up, so only like 15% didnt pop in FFOF, i mentioned to him FFOF may be too hot but it seems to work, he recently changed things up a bit and went with a mix of 80%FFOF and 20% Happyfrog for his soil mix and when filling the pots he uses a small sized coffee can, the 1 pound cans no the 2 pound large cans. anywho when the pot is almost filled compleatly he pops the can in so create a pocket, fills soil around the can till the pots full, takes can out and fills it with only Happy Frog, he had a 100% success rate with beans using this method, i think he dropped 20 beans. he did this because of what i said about the hot FFOF and well it works, just some more ideas... id also be careful with the FF line of nutes, the grow and tiger bloom are synthetic nutes cleated with salts, which will build up if you overfeed and/or dont flush. and remember the synthetic salt cleated nutes will kill off the micros which kind of defeats the purpose of using Happy Frog or any soil with lots of beneficial microbes, since FFOF doesnt have the beneficials its not a big deal but those little microbes do wonders, gotta say i love this whole organic growing, so much simpler then synthetic nutes/hydro