My seeds aren't sprouting...

So I germinated 3 seeds and put them in their own cup with Fox Farm Oceans. I'm using 8 CFLs, 4 Daylight: 4Soft white. The cups are 6inches away from the light. I know plants should be within inches of CFL's but not even a couple hours and my soil dries up.

I bought a moisture measurer to help me refrain from over/under watering. Its been almost 2 days. I haven't seen any activity with on sprout. When I added the first time (besides the time I actually put the seed in the soil, buried it, and sprayed to moisten) I was a bit hasty and the measurer said it was very wet, above moist.. which isn't good so I let it go through out the day today, came home tonight and its dry. So I'm not sure to keep watering it but I don't remember reading anything on this problem? I'm not using anything other than water, CFLs, and 3 cups and seeds. so I hope I gave enough information. Any help would be great. I just want to get these damn seeds to sprout!

Oh, and my temperature is around 79-80 (lights on) 76 (lights off). Fahrenheit.

Be patient. if they don't come up in 5 days then you can start to worry. It took my seeds 3 days for them all to break the surface.

how deep is the material u put the soil n. it seems as if they r drying very fast and u may need a deeper type of pot to keep the moisture n the soil. happened to me with my peat pellets. other than that i'd say b patient, they will pop out soon enough

I might have to start over again, I had my moisture measurer on PH setting and i overwatered again -_-. I went ahead and suran wrapped the cups.

I'm using a styrofoam cup, so I think it should be adequate enough. I think I'm just being impatient like you guys say. Thanks for the help I'm bouncing out of town but I'll be sure to give a heads up to see what the results are. I might need help if nothing happens in the next 3-5 days.

until they sprout the lights aren't that important. but it doesn't hurt since you wrapped them to build humidity. i'm sure they will pop up any day now. Peace

put a magnet underneath the cup with the SOUTH end facing up... that should get em to sprout quicker..

see my thread regarding sowing seeds in magnetic energy