Flowers in the Peat

I got a handy little starting kit with 12 peat pellets in a container with a removable clear plastic lid. The first week of February may be a little early to start seedlings indoors, but I decided to do it anyways. I decided to plant flowers because I tried last year and they all died shortly after coming up. I believe their condition was 'bolting' meaning they came up too quickly so they had a thin weak stem that basically snapped. I think that's already happening to the one almost horizontal plant in the picture below. The first two flowers on the list had a sell by date of 15 months before I planted them.

I planted:
Blue Enchantment Morning Glories
California Poppies (Sunset blend)
Globe Amaranths
Pink Sweets ('Rainbow Loveliness' Dianthus)
Evening Stocks

After 3 days the Morning Glories started to pop up, and today, day 6, still remain to be the only ones:

Update: The poppies and pinks came up fast and died within a week. The evening stocks didn't do anything. One out of about 4 morning glories that came up is still living, and both planted amaranths are alive and strong!

Update 2 (April 25): The lonely morning glory has perished, for what appears to be no apparent reason but that's probably not so.

You can see my crocuses and peonies coming up in the background :)

Update 3 (May 23): One of the two amaranths has shrivelled and died. :(