Season 2: Dawn of the Auto

I wanted to start these auto seeds directly in soil like I had the Sp Queen 1 to avoid any stunting or hold ups, but in doing so I shockingly somehow lost my 1st Ogreberry king band seed in an 18 GAL pot lol. I accidently nudged the markers I used to indicate where the seed had been sewed. I searched for it for about an hr, gave up, stewed in my bewildered dismay—came back a little later for another 20 mins and had all but given up when I somehow found it and transported all 3 seeds to a wet paper towel. Now that all 3 have popped there's much less chance for the seed to rot or fall too deep in the soil and fail, so they are going directly into their final pots. In the future, when growing auto's (if I ever grow autos again) I will avoid this by using this paper towl method or by using starting pucks that can be placed directly into the soil. The next morning I checked if they had shucked their seed casing yet and all 3 were still stuck so I released them from their prisons and planted them again. I think this is the 3rd time I've planted these seeds—lets hope they take off in their 7gal, 7 gal, and 18 gal homes.