I keep it as close to mother nature as possible. I sow right in the dirt. In the final pot. Especially autos. I've only tier transplanted autos and that was for weeding the males out.
I sow right in. Water once lightly daily. Within 3 days I have seedlings. The ONLY seeds that came out later were the Critical Neville Haze that took 5 days, but that's par for the course for that strain.