Starting from seed to flood and drain

What is a good way to start from seed to flood and drain? Would you recommend something like rockwool? Not sure how well seeds respond to soil less mediums.

I use the 1.5 rockwool starter cubes to start with. I start by Ph'ing some water to 5.5 and then soak the cubes for 10 or 15 min. I then take each cube and with a snap of the wrist I remove the excess water from the cube. Then I open the little hole in the middle a hair and place the germinated seed, tap root down. Although you can just place you ungerminated seeds in it also. Then I place the cubes in a shallow tote that I cover and uncover with some cling wrap. You want to wait atleast 24hrs before watering the cubes and 48hrs can be better, it really just depends on the climate. When the top are slightly dry to the touch I use a turkey baster and water each cube till water begins to pool under the cube. A week to two weeks later you'll have adequate roots out of the bottom of the cube and throughout it. Transplanted these into larger rockwool cubes 3.5's with a hole in them to recieve the starter plug.

Im not knocking other growers prefered methods but the use of rockwool is unwarranted since other better mediums have came to market that have less issues & no learning curve that comez with rockwool.

With rockwool you have ph issues as well as overwatering & medium compression,any of these issues can sink your grow before it starts,so IMO why even waste time using an inferior product that offers no added benifit from its use to make up for the difficulties caused from its use.

Products made of sponge material like "root riot" starter plugs offer a much better alternative,they wont get water logged & drown the seedling,they are ph neutral & are impossible to compress to a point they wont regain proper density.

Ive been doing flood tables for over 3 years now full time after growing soil for 20 some odd years,i started out with rockwool & had assloads of problems,i switched over to using sponge material plugs & my grows exploded,every problem went away overnight.

Germinate the seeds however you like & after the seeds pop stick them in a root riot & just keep em watered & wet at all times,the sponge material can handel watering times as frequent as you like without drowning them.

Being that i use no medium in my tables i flood once every hour with no problems from overwatering,i love the sponges.