Well it is pretty obvious that the seeds just perform better in a hot soil. Maybe this isn't true of every seed but these seem to prefer having nutrients right away to start feeding, thought that the addition of liquid seaweed would make a difference you can see the rear right plant has pretty much slowed to a crawl and the right front has just about run out of nutes. Was hoping to keep them in the starter cups for a while longer but I don't see how that is going to work so next week we transplant........yep all 4 I don't throw out anything without trying to get the best out of it. So NOW we are going to try FFOF vs EB Stone Recipe 420 Potting soil!!!! Since these two little runts need food and have never touched FF, I'm going to pot these two in 1 gallon plastic pots and put in the 2x2 under the Spider Farmer SF1000, whilst transplanting the two Foxy Ladies (oh yeah this is going somewhere) into Ocean Forest.
@Thaiclee, cover the top soil to keep it moist and the microbial life active, helps with pest prevention as well. I've used organic rice hulls in the past for the silica but there is trace amounts of arsenic with rice hulls so I switched to hay.