In an attempt to improve germination and growth in our basement we purchased a Heating Mat. The idea is you put it under plant pots and it evenly warm up the soil, in this case ours advertised ten to twenty degrees above the ambient temperature. Upon first plugging it in I became a bit skeptical of it as it didn't seem to be heating up to much but nevertheless I still kept it plugged in all night and low and behold by morning it had finally gotten warm. From there it was only a few days until the results began to appear and they were great. Using one of those infrared thermometers we measure the temperature of the soil in the pots on the lower shelf to be in the mid-fifties while the pots under the mat in the high sixties to low seventies.
To Be Continued...
