The packets say anywhere from 7-14 days for germination depending on type. I may just kill some this year, good thing they are cheap. I think the only annuals I’ve planted are petunias that are in the small cell packs so I’m going in a bit blind. Fingers crossed!
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I think they might be good to go in a month then! Good luck! 
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Calbal’s guess above is as good as mine in this case; I’ve never grown flowers aside from marigold for pest control in a food garden (and that I seed direct in the garden). But for most things, a couple weeks inside isn’t going to hurt. I do minimal hardening off here (mostly for heat tolerance, really, and wind).
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My plastic lids have water droplets on them, this is good, right?
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Another pruning question- how bad is this damage on my rose really? Do I need to prune it out, or can I give it a chance?
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I hope someone has some answers for you! I know nothing about roses except that Knockout Roses are “easy” (supposedly) and heritage roses are susceptible to a lot of diseases. 
And Japanese beetles are the devil to roses. 
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and my rose came with the house as two thin and leggy tendrils lying on the ground, so we aren’t sure of the variety. It blooms in June, has light pink flowers, is a climber, and resilient enough to live in semi-shade with established maple roots. And in June we smoosh all the aphids we can reach.
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Supposedly some roses are pretty hardy to being cut almost all the way down and will regrow from the roots. But I don’t want to suggest that as I don’t really know anything about roses, and it might kill yours. I can say though, if it is a disease, and you cut some branches, you’ll want to cut below the level of the diseased wood (clean wood (I know it isn’t really wood)) and disinfect your loppers with every cut with a bleach solution, so that you don’t spread it. Some thing can only be treated with fungicides, etc., though. I would probably find a rose-specific Facebook group (or something similar) that seems friendly, and ask for advice there! 
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That looks more like physical damage that any rose disease I’m familiar with, in which case you could leave it and see how it does. But I’ll second the idea of posting a pic to a rose-specific group. I definitely don’t know all the rose diseases in all the climates, and your climate is not my climate, where the roses are already leafed out and starting to bloom.
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I also don’t know anything about roses (mine were all adopted and now growing from the root stock, which I don’t mind because it means they are hardy and not fussy) but because there is a greyish tinge to the wood beyond the affected spot my inclination would be to cut about 1-2 cm above that affected branch just to be safe – like just below or above that bigger spike to the left above where it branches off. It will probably eventually send out another branch above the cut, maybe to the right?
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My daffodils, which came with the house, are minis and have double blooms. I’m wondering if they are some old fashioned variety, like the painted ladies I have as well. Theey also seem to bloom a lot later than the others I see around the neighborhood, but that could just be where they are located. Anyone know their daffodils?
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I LOVE THEM!! I’ve never seen a daff with a double bloom!!
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Go lil sprouts go!
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Ones on the left need more light, more directly overhead if possible. Can wait a couple days if need be.
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They haven’t had any light yet, I thought they all needed to be sprouted. I can turn it on today. The light I have covers all of the trays, is it ok to have light over the ones that haven’t sprouted yet? Every tray has some sprouted and some not. Will I want the light on 24/7? Do I leave the covers on with the light? Also. it is still below freezing here for the next couple of nights, I assume I keep them on a heat mat until they get hardened off?
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