Purple Haze, Chemdawg, & Blue Dream Grow Starting Now

Recently harvested a decent grow from an unknown strain that I have now harvested twice and working on three times. She is pretty decent girl and so far everyone agrees that I should keep it goin.

Yesterday, thanks to a lil trading, I acquired 3 Blue Dream, 3 Chemdawg, and 3 Purple Haze seeds. I also received 7 seeds of a strain that was called Joker Kush?, dunno.

Although the seeds will represent my fourth grow, and currently on my third, I am gonna start by only germin one of each and try and learn as much as I can off each strain for future grows.

I plan on soaking seeds for half a day or so in a shot glass of bottled water, placed on heat pad (set on low as to not burn them up). After cracking will place in soil, tap root down, lightly covered and then in veg room under light.

Soil Recipe: 50 lb top soil, 50 lb manure, 50 lb peat moss, 25 lb sand, 5lbs organic compost, 5 lbs bone meal, 5 lbs blood meal.
I have been using this mixture on previous grows and in past vegetable projects seems to do pretty good.

Veg Room: 2x5x5, 2 6 inch diameter fans for intake, 1 eight inch fan for exhaust, 1 175w mh and planning on adding another 250w HPS as soon as I can, need lamp. But I figure for seedlings that will be fine.

Flower Room: 5x5x8, 8 inch vent hood fan for intake, 2 6 inch fans for exhaust. 400w HPS, 3-150w HPS, 4-4ft T8s, 2-4ft T12s, also working on acquiring 1000w HPS that will be added before 4 new girls are ready for flower.

I plan on having this journal throughout the grow and hope that anyone with advice will throw it at me.

Any advice or info on the 3 ladys would be great.

I dropped my seeds almost 10 hours ago and besides all 5 sinking there has really been no change. I decided against the heating pad because the one I had available had an automatic shut-off and would not stay on for more than an hour. I placed them in approximately an inch and half to two inches of room temp bottled water above the fridge.
Close inspection and maybe the purple haze has begun to swell, but hard to tell for sure.
I have planned on putting them directly into soil and into veg room. After reading different methods all over RIU, I am now torn between doing that or the paper towel method in the dark before introducing it to soil. I have not had very good luck with seed germination in the past, but have only experimented with middy bag seeds. Besides the unknown strain that actually started out as 12 seeds and ended with 3 living and 2 of them males, and numerous other attempts that led to failure, my success rate is lacking.
I have always took seeds and placed them in damp paper towels between plates in the dark, usually about half pop and then about half of those actually make it. I know that gender in bagseeds are 50/50 and honestly a little overwatering prolly left me with low success of them making it. This is my first grow with good seeds and I dont want to mess it up.
I think I have a couple more hours before pulling them out of water I hope that someone can throw some advice this way before then, if not I'm goin with my gut.

Well seeds have been in paper towel, damp, in seedling starter dome, warm and in dark. Still no poppers, I think maybe one of the Jokers have begun to crack but that is it.

I am beginning to freak out a lil, and no one giving any feedback is somewhat discouraging.

I will take some pics of my setup and try and get them on here, My thrid grow I mentioned earlier of the unknown strain is doing well. I over nuted a couple weeks ago and almost burnt them all to death, but they are now beginning to bounce back.

Would love to hear something from you guys/girls.