Abandoning the Wick System for Drip Watering; Help Needed with Settings for Germinated Seeds in Soil (no spout yet)

For germination you want your lights at about 30 inches from the soil. An auto watering system may make your life harder in the long run, your settings are going to have to change quite frequently as the plant grows and uses more and more water. Add to that the fact that you should be feeding plain water every after every one or two feedings....so you'd have to change out your reservoir fairly frequently, for only a few plants its far easier to hand water, easy to make adjustments that way also. But thats just my opinion. Happy growing.

Just planted my germinated seed and am hoping for the best. Grow light about 1-3/4-2ft up. I read contradicting things on the web - 1 site says high, while another says low (but not so close to burn the leaves). Which is it?