If you use a heating pad for starting seeds, you need to keep a watch at the temperature of the soil. I measured over 90F in the center of the tray and over 84F at the corners. This is with the plastic dome on and the shop lights switched on. I used a “instant read” type meat thermometer from the kitchen drawers \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Of course this temperature is too hot and this is probably why my impatiens seeds are not germinating.<\/p>\n
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I turned off the heating pad and tool the temperature the next day [letting the temperatures stabilize]. It was around 75F with the lights on. I this that this temp is better for germination. The interesting thing is that my other flat had a batch of petunias which germinated just fine. Maybe impatiens need a little cooler temperature.<\/p>\n
Anyway, lets see if the impatiens seeds will germinate now or not. I hope I did not kill them!<\/p>\n
\u00a0Update: 5\/4\/2012:<\/strong><\/p>\n Well nothing has germinated till date, hence I can safely say that unfortunately, I killed those seeds! Well, that sucks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you use a heating pad for starting seeds, you need to keep a watch at the temperature of the soil. I measured over 90F in the center of the tray and over 84F at the corners. This is with the plastic dome on and the shop lights switched on. I used a “instant read” type meat thermometer from the kitchen drawers \ud83d\ude09 Of course this temperature is too hot and this is probably why my impatiens seeds are not germinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","tag-seed-starting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}