It's been a good wile since I grew but there are a few things I used to do that increased my success.
I used a two room set up. One was the Veg. room for sprouts and growth, 18-20 hours of light. The other was the flower room, once the plants reach desired growth they go into this room to bud at 12 hours of light or less. Now I stopped doing seeds as soon as I learned to clone but I continued to try out seeds for new mother plants from time to time.
It's hard to sprout under flowering lighting conditions as they tend to want to flower after the second set of sun leaves and get stunted if they sprout at all.
I sprouted seeds in a folded damp paper towel picked out the strongest after X amount of time. From there the go to pet pots with your favorite starter medium, mist well and put them under a dome, keep under dome and well misted until second set of sun leaves come out then move out of the dome and grow out.
You really should switch to cloning as seeds are a mixed bag whereas cloning gives you duplicate results from the mother every time other than the occasional herm.
Also for sprouting seeds, no fertilizer other than some earthworm castings in the potting mix until out of the dome.
Crap didn't mean to be so windy here lol but I could go on for days about this =)
Cloning would be so much easier, but I have no way to get them where I live.
You can grow out a mother from seed and take your clones from it.
Just pick out your most robust female after sexing and keep it in a veg state taking the tops as clones every couple weeks or as needed.
If you ever want to have a deeper discussion on the subject let me know and we can hook up on discord or some other voice comm.
All my grows are auto flowers right now. Maybe in the future when I grow some photo periods I will look into cloning.