Paper Towel Method - much faster

[habitat_gardener]

Originally Posted by travis

I have never seen a professional nursery grower use all these random methods. Usually it's straight by the book, seeds into soilless seed starter mix of some sort packed into plug trays, and down the rows they go. Is there any particular reason to pre-sprout sprouts and then transfer them into a sprouting mix?

I'd guess nursery growers are planting hundreds or thousands of seeds at a time and don't have time to transfer individual sprouted seedlings to cells. As others have noted, I'd use this method if I had a few seeds and wanted to make sure I got a plant, but if I were planting multiples, it'd never get done if I added these extra steps.