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[catjac1975]

Nothing going on with mine. Years ago I bought a seed starting heat pad, now I can not find

Oh, NYB. I am not particularly organized but, I know where all of my gardening things are.

 

[thistlebloom]

I put a couple strings of Christmas lights in an plastic under-bed storage box and sat my seed starting trays on top. The thermometer sitting next to them says that the top of the box is about 75*.

(saw it here on TEG somewhere)

I do that!
https://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/fast-kale.12949/

 

[ninnymary]

I do that!
https://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/fast-kale.12949/

I would be afraid of starting a fire. Won't those lights get hot enough to melt the plastic?

Mary

 

[canesisters]

They don't get hot enough to melt the plastic Christmas tree

 

[ninnymary]

They don't get hot enough to melt the plastic Christmas tree

Mary

 

[catjac1975]

I would be afraid of starting a fire. Won't those lights get hot enough to melt the plastic?

Mary

I would not trust christmas lights that are all made in China.

 

[flowerbug]

i used to be able to use my computer monitor for culturing yogurt and starting seeds. always kept things warm when it was on. it weighed about 70lbs and took up half this table. could fit a few quarts up there or a dozen small starter cells. the new computer monitor i can pick up with 2 fingers and is too thin to have anything on it other than a bit of dust or a very slender bug. i may be able to find a small froggy puppet/stuffed figure up there. it is so strange now that i got rid of almost all my junk on the tables to have extra space around there...

 

[thistlebloom]

I used it for years. Not even a melt mark anywhere on the plastic box. I did at some point take the precaution of putting foil under the lights.
But it doesn't get above 90 inside the box, if I remember correctly. I had a thermometer in there too.

You might be more worried about your body spontaneously combusting, at 98.6 .

 

[thistlebloom]

@catjac1975 what kind of lights do you use for your beautiful Christmas wreath?

 

[ninnymary]

I used it for years. Not even a melt mark anywhere on the plastic box. I did at some point take the precaution of putting foil under the lights.
But it doesn't get above 90 inside the box, if I remember correctly. I had a thermometer in there too.

You might be more worried about your body spontaneously combusting, at 98.6 .

Geeze, now I have something else to worry about!

Mary