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Re: Germination temps

Cindy, I have exactly the same situation and have decided it is best to
keep all my flats indoors. Mostly because I have fans for circulation in
the house and none in the sunshed. That sunshed gets might hot, and if I
forget to open the doors, Oh boy!
Did I tell everyone how I germinated my seeds again this year? An electric
blanket (twin size) over an old wooden table set to High, gives me about
seventy degrees bottom heat and a hugh surface area. I use waterproof
plastic trays, with domes. When they show leaves I remove the domes and
place the trays in the lighted window area. I feel so lucky to have room to
do all this.
Lorraine.
Live Oak, Ca.  Northern California 
:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a question for the list members.
>Do you think is is better for seeds that need warm temps to germinate to be
>on a heat source in an area, indoors, where the air temp is fairly steady
>but on the cool side: 50 deg F.-65 deg F? Or, put the flats in the
>greenhouse, unheated, where the temps cool at night, but get much hotter
>during the day, 80 deg F-90 deg F?
>
>What do you think?
>
>Cindy in TX, X8/9
> 
Lorraine Hoag, U.C. Master Gardener,
Sutter/Yuba Counties
Northern California
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