For the love of God, PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trying to grow for the 1st time, the plant I got to sprout is doing GREAT.

Here is the problem: FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I CAN'T GET MY SEEDS TO SPROUT IN THE SOIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do them in paper towels, and I get nice stems everytime. I do NOT wait until the stem is too long, as soon as it's 1/4 inch, i put it in soil.

My soil is FFOF and a light perlite mixture.

First time under floros, germinated.

second try under floros...............DEAD.

3rd try sitting in a window (hot and humid, indirect sunlight) in my garage................DEAD.

I should mention, I have a moisture meter and have made sure the seed i transplant has been neither wet not dry, simply moist when planting. Spritzing with rain water once a day.

WHY DO MY ATTEMPTS AT PLANTING KEEP DYING??? Does anyone PLEASE have a better way in how i can sprout these seeds?????????

I am so discouraged at this point! I can grow an AWESOME plant, but what do I need to do to make the damn thing sprout???

So I'm no expert, I just germinated my first crop, but out of 11 seeds I had 100% germination rate. So I'll tell you exactly what I did.
I folded a piece of paper towel twice so it was thick, put it on a plate and soaked it with water. So soaked that the plate was holding water too (maybe a couple mm). I spread out the seeds on the paper towel and then pressed another paper towel folded up onto it. I didn't need to add anymore water the second paper towel just soaked some up. Then I put a bowl upside down overtop of it. I wanted to keep them warm, so I put the plate onto a heating pad with some paper in between so it didn't get too hot. About 24 hours later I checked the temperature of the water in the plate and it was 90. I kinda freaked out thinking that it was probably too hot so I just planted them right away. They didn't have any stems yet, one was cracked open and ready to start growing but the rest had nothing.
I used 4" pots and filled them with a soil mixture of 60% potting soil (came with plant food in it already), 20% perlite and 20% vermiculite. It seemed like a wierd mixture, very light and grainy, but I used it anyway. Once the soil mixture was in the pots, I put a little water in and mixed it up. I didn't want the soil to be soaking wet, just moist. Then i just put in the seeds about 1/4"-1/2", covered with soil and patted it down a little. I put them all under cool white fluorescents (just hovering over the top of the pot maybe 1/2") on an 18hour light cycle. The next day one popped up! I watered them a little that day but not much. The day after that 4 more popped up! That day I watered them thoroughly so that it went all the way through to the bottom of the pot, and didn't water them again for a week. They all came up the day after.
It makes me wonder if soaking seeds at a really warm temperature increases germination. Or I could have just gotten really lucky.

First problem you are putting the seed the wrong way into the soil. The white thing coming out of the shell is not a stem it is the root system. That needs to be placed facing down into the soil.

Don't germinate seedlings in FOX because it will kill them. It has to many nutrients in it.

watering everyday can be an issue too. Maybe you're watering too much?

...imo, FFOF can be too rich for seedlings. A seed needs nothing to sprout but moister, and darkness helps. I use rapid rooters, I place them under a clone dome, onto a seedling heating pad and soak the rapid rooters with distilled water pH'd @ 6.5...I plant the seed directly into the rapid rooter about 1/4 inch deep making sure the seed is in darkness. (I use an extra rapid rooter and water it just as I do my seedlings to check if watering is due...if you can squeeze one drop of water out they don't need watered)....keep them in darkness with the heating pad on and the dome covered...in 2-5 days you'll have sprouts pop'n up out of the rooters...put them under some fluros for 24/7...after a week or so I start giving them pH'd 6.5 tap water to eat as low dose fertilizer for a week, then I transplant into FFOF. Hope that helps....I have a very good success rate, btw. Good luck.