First Grow Back! chicken n' whaaa?

-Linalool- Ordered a 3 pack of Chicken n Wafflez from Humboldt n we got 4! Haven't grown in a few years. Several grows under my belt, but I expect to be a little rusty. Chicken n Wafflez is a cross of Jelly Donutz #117 x Purple Cartel by Xotic Flavors that was then back crossed 3 times with itself for stability and consistency. For this grow I'm going to stick to what I know, not to stray to far from what I remember being tried and true. My main goals are to get a half pound and practice monitoring PPM/TDS and PH. Side goals are to pop a holy grail pheno. (Back in the day i had an Original Glue pheno from ILGM that was phenomenal) Let's get to the grow. 7/12/2025 Waiting on TDS/PPM meter and Ph meter from amazon, they're somewhere in the mail. For germination, I started by wetting some paper towel with some tap water. According to the reports on my cities water, I'm not too worried about dissovled solids, but once i get more testing equipment we can look into it more. After, wetting the paper towel, i simply placed the 4 seeds on it, folded the entire piece in half and placed it inside an unsealed ziploc baggy, then placed that bag in a drawer above my PC. It's nice and warm in there, around 80+ degrees as the vent from my PC shoots straight up onto the bottom of the drawer. Figured it would be a good spot. 7/13/2025 Checked back on my seeds on a whim 24hrs after placing in the drawer to find all 4 have germinated! Rejoice! -updates- I had to go to bed that night, but let me continue what I accomplished that day. I rehydrated some Sunshine Advanced Mix #4 with half strength Clonex solution until damp and packable. I prepped my solo cups by taking some scissors and snipping 4 tiny slits in the bottom edge of the cup, about 90 degrees from one another. Then proceeded to layer soil into solo cups an inch or so at a time and lightly packing as i went, ensuring no air pockets in my mix. About an inch from the top, I stopped and poked a small hole in the center of the cups and dropped one seed in each hole, taking care to make sure the tap root is facing downwards for every seed. Then, I covered with another half inch of mix and lightly tamped down, and thoroughly wet each solo cup with about a half cup of half strength Clonex solution to ensure soaked mix. These were then set in a warm, approximately 75 degree space to wait for seedlings to emerge from the soil. Sorry forgot to take pictures of this process, perhaps I will add staged ones for posterity later.