I have created a great way to keep my seedlings warm. I took a picture of it to show, but here's what i did. I had some plastic crates like the bread man uses to deliver bread to stores, and I filled them with Christmas Lights, and used solo cups to prop the seed flats on. This is keeping my soil around 75-80 degrees, and to make it warmer just wrap some foil around the sides, and to make it cooler just use taller cups. My little seeds are sprouting so fast I can't keep up!
Cool idea. I bet it looks really pretty at night.
How long do seeds have to be kept warm? Just until they sprout or longer?
What a great invention! I can do that. Hmm, what to use for the lite box?
At last something useful for all those xmas lites I bought during after xmas sales.Neat idea!
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Good idea..seeds need to be kept warm till you see about 1/2 of them germinate...you can keep it on a bit longer, but unless you are starting seeds in a really cool room, there's no need.
edited to say that this applies to flats of the same kinds of seeds...different species have different requirements.
This message was edited Feb 26, 2006 7:27 AM
