What a wonderful question! I think you will be pleasantly surprised by my answer. LOL FIRST: Let's take a look at cellulose. Cellulose is the most abundant organic compound on earth. It is manufactured by plants and is what creates the cell walls of a plant. Cut open a stem of any plant and cellulose is what has made the stem walls. It is being looked at as an alternative fuel source from various plants. So, addition of the cellulose in the tablet would be a trace amount and would be used by the plant to create the cell walls anyway. So, can't say that would do any harm to the plant. SECOND: FD&C Yellow. It is a dye. A very trace amount of this dye is used to give Vitamin C tablets their color. Food coloring is non toxic to plants and will not affect the overall growth of the plant. Use too much food coloring and you can possibly alter the appearance of the plants. For example: a tinging of yellow in the leaves or flowers. But, I do not believe there is enough of a quantity of the yellow to do any harm in that manner anyway. You are dissolving a small amount of the vitamin into the water so it should be safe. THIRD: Magnesium Stearate is naturally manufactured in plants. That is why beans are a good source of magnesium. Magnesium is one of the trace minerals that a plant needs anyway for overall plant health. It is taken up in higher rates at a low pH of between 5 and 6. But at a normal rate of 7 it is taken up in a much lower amount. In fact, a deficiency of Mg in a plant can be seen almost immediately. Mg deficiency will cause an interveinal chlorosis (yellowing) in older leaves. Leaves can turn yellow or white and fall off the plant if Mg is deficient. So, this will also not harm the plant. FINALLY: Lactose is a complex sugar made up of glucose and galactose. Now, in its complex form it will not be taken up by the plant and given that it is mixed with the water, the overall content of the lactose would be so small that it would most likely be evaported from the soil. It is soluble in water at a level of 21.6g/100ml but with the small tablet size of the Vitamin C there would not be enough mass of lactose to be soluble enough to break it down into its simple sugar forms. And like I said though, there is such a minute amount of this in the tablet that it should have no overall effect on the plant. I hope this helps answer your question!

It's not actually "on" the whole time. The ambient temp in the house is 65, so the toaster only comes on every so often to heat up 5 degrees (which takes less than two minutes). The heating bars don't ever get red. Im only going to keep them in there for two weeks at most, then i'll put the seeds outdoors (our highs are in the 60s now with lows in the 40s, so in two weeks or so, it should be warm enough to finish off the germination process --at least i hope, im no expert) bestdank, Im not at home right now, but im sure if they havnt arrived yet, they will by the end of this week. Thanks

What I read is that it doesn't get cool enough at night in Florida for them. Since we almost always fall into the 60s even in the dead of summer maybe a Michigan summer will be up their alley. It will be weird on 90 degree days having to move them INSIDE in July or August. Sound like no one in this forum has tried. I'll keep everyone updated.

Jen its Edi Morange the cotyldon leaves are seperating. Its just weird lol I got the seeds from BBB. Its the only one. I am gonna let it continue to do its thing. Just to observe what happens. Stuart No rooting hormone. I have the seeds in cactus soil on heat mat and I spray them with distilled water with splash of peroxide and drop of ST. Just normal routine. I will post more pictures as it progress's ( if it does ) It is interesting, Jackie