Heat Mats

[Stevepeat]

I am looking at getting a 120 cm x 40 cm heat mat to give asclepiads under lights an optimum temperature. I would value any comments or feedback on best brands and accompanying thermostats. I want to buy something decent, but don’t want to waste money either.

[Cidermanrolls]

Forget the mat, invest in a Vitopod propagater.
But of course it will depend on how many plants you have.

[Conrad]

I used to use heat mats for speeding up seed raising, and if you want to go that way, I used the ROOT!T heat mats, which were always very reliable.

These days, I don't bother, instead I just box in my grow lights well, and the residual heat from the t8 flourescents I use keeps the temperature at around 27c in the daytime. Saves a bunch of electricity, and provides a good reason for me to not bother upgrading to led since they have very little residual heat being much more efficient. I would recommend that route rather than heat mats.

This is my propagator, made from ply with x12 36w t8 tubes, and three shelves, all on runners. Works very well.