Crumble up paper towels one at a time and fill up cup on the inside of black paper. Cut black paper, so it's even with the cup. Slip each seed between cup and black paper. Place seed viewer in sunny window and watch it grow. The reason for this is a special chemical named auxin.
Gravity causes the auxin to collect in the lower parts of the plant , which is the roots.
Root cells grow faster on the side where there is the smallest amounts of auxin. Because of the large amount of auxin in the roots, the roots have no place to go except down. Every 2 hours from the time you put the celery into the cups, remove 1 of the stalks and put into the correct towel. Each time you remove a stalk from the water, carefully peel the rounded part with a vegetable peeler to see how far up the stalk the purple water has traveled. For water to start at the roots and move to the leaves it relies on a characteristic common to water.