Girl Scout Cookies - Organic Outdoor

Very excited to be growing these seeds outdoors this Spring! Noob here - these are my first bought genetics! I learned some lessons germinating these seeds. Previously with some bag seed I messed around with, I had success with a 24 hour soak, then transferred to the paper towel method - and it worked out fine. Using bought genetics for the first time, I was a bit more cautious. I found the guide at https://2fast4buds.com/news/germinationguide and decided to follow that. I was a bit concerned at the suggested soak times of 2-3 days (or more if no action yet) but went ahead and after 24 hours there was a crack in 2/3 seeds. In 48 hours 2/3 had a tiny tap root showing, and in 72 hours, one had a good looking, ready tap root, one had a stunted tap root and 1 was still yet to crack, I wasn't prepared to let them soak for longer than that, so I moved them to paper towel and by the next day one was where I expected, with a nice tap root. The other seed still had a stunted tap root and the smallest seed still had yet to crack, which made me nervous. I transferred all 3 to jiffy pellets and by the next day, there was life shooting out one of them. Still nothing from the others. The healthy plant was doing well and was moved to the final 30L pot. I mixed 5ml mycorrhizal fungi (which came with my soil) in the area surrounding the jiffy pellet. The other 2 seeds never showed signs of life. The one with the stunted tap root remained as it was the day I took it out of the water and the small seed never cracked open. I'm guessing they drowned in the first step, by leaving them soaking for too long :( Noob lesson learned - sometimes you need to trust your gut, and don't soak your seeds for longer than 24 hours. It might work for some folks, but it's risky. Moving on, I germinated the last 2 seeds successfully using my tried and trusted method (24 hour soak, then paper towel). They'll be a little bit behind the big sister, but let's see if they catch up! I'm covering the seedlings with 2L cold drink bottle tops to help protect against insects and unpredictable Spring weather. There are some strange white spots on the cotyledons of the 2 new seedlings. They almost look like the size of water droplets, so perhaps it has something to do with the moisture inside the bottle tops. The emerging true leaves look okay so far, so I'm not going to stress about it. See you next week!