@DavidLMO
Everyone has a different way of doing it. I like the rapid rooters for the reasons I mentioned above, but just started using them. Previous attempts were using regular soil in 72 pod seed trays like you prefer, but I did not have great results. Likely that was due to poor seed quality. Right now I have 47 seeds in rapid rooters from Amazon (poor quality from past experience) and 6 have germinated in 2 weeks.
I have 40 also in rapid rooters from BB&B and after about 10 days, about half are germinated.
My next attempt will likely be seeds from BB&B, half in seedling soil and half in rapid rooters all under the same humidity dome so I can get more scientific results.