I've grown tomatoes and eggplants in pure vermi-compost with great results so EWC are definitely king in organics. It's nice to see someone other than myself that believes in leaving the plant be as much as possible, especially from seed. Can't wait to see what your two produce.
I just paper-toweled some (about 20) original 1996 Romulan f2 beans this morning to resurect an old favourite of mine. I still have another 50 to 60 of those left to germinate so I am sure I will find at least 1 phenominal mother and I'll start up a thread for that in a month when there is something to show. I can guarantee you that I, like you, will have no mad scientist crap going on.
Vive au naturalle (or something like that) lol!
Cheers and happy growing.