Soil

what kind of good soil should i use first to plant the seeds in after germination?

personally, i use some jiffy seedstarting mix (made mostly of Sphagnum Peat moss if my memory serves) in a small jiffy pot. keep the entire medium moist until the seed breaks the ground, then lighten up on the water a bit. Keep it moist, but not over watered, to get more even root growth. i kept mine too wet, and the main Taproot went straight down and out the cup before anything else really had formed, causing me to transplant early without a fully established root system. even if not watering the inside, spray the outside of the jiffy cup to keep it wet. the longer this thing stays wet, the faster it will dissolve into the soil you transplant into (though you will still probably end up needing to pull a but of it out by hand). good root system? (might see some coming out of the sides of the cup or the bottom) if so, time to transplant. many articles on the kind of mix you should use around the site (dolamite lime with FFOF sphagnum peat and perlite/vermiculite).

some people will say the Jiffy germination cubes work better, in my opinion only difference is you need to transplant that much sooner. the bigger rockwool cubes also have people raving so, to that extent its all personal.

hope this helped.