As I was losing hope with the Dark Devil Auto grow, I decided to soak an Amnesia Auto freebee in a glass of distilled water. In less than 48 hrs., the seed cracked with a half long tap root going. I skipped the paper towel and planted it in a Rapid Rooter (soaked 24hrs in a mix of distilled water, 1/2 tsp of aloe vera powder and 1 tsp of coconut powder).
I then planted the plug in the 50/50 mix of coco and pearlite. Just a side note, I had pre-watered the medium with distilled water and CaliMagic (to run-off). I also warmed it up a little by letting it sit in the tent with the Canna-Cheese grow earlier that day. Two days later she emerged from the top of the Rapid Rooter. I'm going to hit the edges of the Rapid Rooter with some distilled water and 1/8 tsp. of Calimagic--keeping the EC under 200 and PH at 6.2-6.3 until the Coyte-things open up. After that, I'll cover the entire medium with low EC CaliMag water (low one hundreds). When the second node starts coming in I'll start introducing low level nutes to the entire medium.