Hello everyone. This is how I built my bottom heat seed starting table. This table will hold four 72 cell flats at a time and will hold a very consistent temp.
I got on Craig's list and found me two waterbed heaters for twenty dollars. These came with thermostats and both work.
Once I tested em out I took the wooden shelf out of the shelving unit and started to glue up the sides.
Once all of the sides were glued and dried my lovely daughter Joselyn helped me fill it half full of sand. Onset we had it half full we placed the waterbed heater in and filled it the rest of the way up.
Once we had it all filled we placed a top on and used some cheap floor tile and tiled the top to help protect from spilled water or dirt.
Once we had it all together we tested out some cabbage. I used cabbage just because the seeds are cheap. I did not want to cook any good pepper seeds.
I have 6500k lighting hanging over the table. I built this in early January and haves started quite a few seeds on it already. Right now I have it off. I need more room in the grow room before I can start it back up. Here are some peppers that I stared about four weeks ago. This is my first real year of starting SEED,and my second year if gardening.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have found so far the my seeds prefer starting mix in cell trays better than jiffy pellets.
I got on Craig's list and found me two waterbed heaters for twenty dollars. These came with thermostats and both work.
Once I tested em out I took the wooden shelf out of the shelving unit and started to glue up the sides.
Once all of the sides were glued and dried my lovely daughter Joselyn helped me fill it half full of sand. Onset we had it half full we placed the waterbed heater in and filled it the rest of the way up.
Once we had it all filled we placed a top on and used some cheap floor tile and tiled the top to help protect from spilled water or dirt.
Once we had it all together we tested out some cabbage. I used cabbage just because the seeds are cheap. I did not want to cook any good pepper seeds.
I have 6500k lighting hanging over the table. I built this in early January and haves started quite a few seeds on it already. Right now I have it off. I need more room in the grow room before I can start it back up. Here are some peppers that I stared about four weeks ago. This is my first real year of starting SEED,and my second year if gardening.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have found so far the my seeds prefer starting mix in cell trays better than jiffy pellets.
