It s very important to stay safe and to know what kind of heater will benefit your plants.
Diy plant heating mats.
73 75 degrees f soil temperature.
You can plug multiple mats into a typical thermostat controller check specifications.
Diy light heat mat surface temperature.
Commercial heat mat surface temperature thermometer placed on top of soil.
If you wish to build your own heating mats for the plants you need to pay attention on certain requirements.
Seedling heat mats are usually sized to hold one two or four of the 1020 size standard nursery flats.
Because we live off grid we needed to find another way.
A good low cost alternative is to simply make your own homemade heating mats for your seeds and seedlings.
Bottom temperature gap between heat mat and seed trays.
80 82 bottom temperature gap between heat mat and seed trays.
Noticing that i would have to drop a lot of dough for heat mats i decided to go with this plan instead.
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.