Outdoor Amnesia Haze Auto - 1st time

Day #4 update I'm shocked, amazed, astounded, thankful and just plain happy that the cold and rain didn't kill these babies! I saw the temperatures get down to 47f after that cold, rainy day. I have checked on them and took some photos today and they're appearing to bounce back! ============= Day #2 update - Cold and rainy. 57f and yuky out. Glad I used the cups over the seedlings. I checked them and a few are breaking the soil in spite of the rotten weather! =========== Bought these seeds from North Atlantic Seed Company (and was also given two sour diesel as "feebies"!) I am growing these along with two other strains. All were dropped in water on a Saturday morning, soaked for 12 hours and then moved to damp paper towel in baggies. I am planting them on a monday afternoon. Tap roots looked decent (to me as a newbie anyway). For each variety, one seed will be in a 5 gallon smartpot with happyfrog potting soil and the other seed will be in natural soil which I dug out to to roughly 5 gallon size and then loosened the soil and mixed about 1/3 the volume with compost. Not sure if the plastic cup is needed, but I'm giving it a try. I drilled two 1/4 in holes in each cup.