Germinating chillis & lovage

[killerflies]

Just a quick one if you dont mind........

Ive just put the following into soil for germination;

Long red marconi,
Habanero hot wax,
Tomatillo,
Lovage,


All are in their own supermarket veg trays and on a wine heating plate (not sure of temp).

Should I put each of my trays into plastic bags in order to keep in heat and moisture, if so, what about oxygen?

Thanks a million!!

[killerflies]

[dtw]

I would put them in bags until they have all come up.

A wine heating plate (used for fermenting wine) should be ok, if not a tad too warm.
Does it have a thermostat? If so, set to about 25C.

Put a thermometer in the soil to test it, if it is too hot, move the trays above the heater.
Or put them in your airing cupboard instead.

[killerflies]

Great stuff!

Thanks for that. Ive put them all in bags and checked the soil temp. It was 33oC  :o so I put the trays on 10mm stilts and will re-check the soil temp again this evening.

Its all gone into the diary so Ill let you know how it goes in the end.

Beir bua!

[killerflies]

Checked the temp again today with the trays on 1cm stilts and the temp was 40oC  :o :o :o

Perhaps its my thermometer but I dont think that that is wrong.

Hope I didnt bake them!