Apparently this thread is never ending, so I will add my opinion--knowing it won't matter anyway, all possibilities having been discussed, critiqued, dissented from and/or agreed with.

I'm an old dude and my eyesight for tiny things isn't great, so I just gave up and planted 30 seeds whichever way the tweezers grabbed em--since I wasn't certain I could tell one end from the other anyway.

After soaking them for 24 hours in water cleaned up with a reverse Osmosis filtration system (adding a very small amount of hydrogen peroxide--more about that in a minute) I planted them in some souped up little root cubes from Holland (Germinationkit.com, if you're interested) and made a little moisture-holding tent over each with a very small baggie. Since the average germination is supposed to be 3-7 days I thought I could take a couple of days off--a day and a half actually. When I looked in on my little friends 24 0f 30 had already germinated--some plants were almost 3 inches high. That's my experience, for what it's worth. These guys seemed not to care very much how you planted them.

About the hydrogen peroxide, another frequently discussed and argued-over factor: some advocate using some (with confusing discussion of amount needed) and some claim it will definitely kill your plant. I can see how this controversy might have evolved. The discussions of hydrogen peroxide in the presoak often refer to using "a 1%" or a 3% solution. I'm not a chemist, but I will say that since hydrogen peroxide comes as a 6% solution most often, if you think that this means that you should dilute the solution by half, say, to achieve a 3% solution it doesn't take a genius to see that you are definitely going to burn the shit of your plants IMMEDIATELY KILLING THEM. So this is possibly why some folks think that hydrogen peroxide can't be used. I think what was meant (and possibly misinterpreted) was a 1% to 3% dilution of what was ALREADY a 6% solution, which means a .06% solution or a .18% solution. That's a huge difference.

I spent an hour on-line reading the scientific literature on hydrogen peroxide use in germination not for our lovely specialty, but for commercial plant use, and several authors agree that an appropriate solution of water and hydrogen peroxide increases germination rates. So it does work. As to how much, being a coward, I put about 6 drops of the 6% solution in a tall water glass, and this seems to have caused no harm. In fact, as noted above (hope my luck holds), at this point they are screaming upward much faster than is usually the case. Oh, and I also scuffed the seed cases a bit before I put them in water--a little 600 grit sandpaper in a matchbox and shake for 20-30 seconds.