Green house seeds soil not paper towel

Mmm. I usually germ by paper towel and don't have many problems unless its the SEEDS fault. In your case, probably the seeds. Makes sense... I mean the Green House coffeeshop in Amsterdam wasn't that great anyways :\

I have personally never had a problem germinating seeds with the paper towel method last year i had %100 germination rate with wet paper towels in a plastic bag just keep wet ,dark and right about 75-80 degrees