Diy Plant Heating Mats
A good low cost alternative is to simply make your own homemade heating mats for your seeds and seedlings.
Diy plant heating mats. Of particular interest is the temperature comparisons of the store bought heat mats and the diy plan. Diy light heat mat surface temperature. 80 82 bottom temperature gap between heat mat and seed trays. Commercial heat mat surface temperature thermometer placed on top of soil.
Although there are diy alternatives to real seedling heat mats i fell for the appeal of something i could unpack plug in and put to work right away. If you wish to build your own heating mats for the plants you need to pay attention on certain requirements. You can plug multiple mats into a typical thermostat controller check specifications. Bottom temperature gap between heat mat and seed trays.
Because we live off grid we needed to find another way. It s very important to stay safe and to know what kind of heater will benefit your plants. Noticing that i would have to drop a lot of dough for heat mats i decided to go with this plan instead. 73 75 degrees f soil temperature.