hmm quite interesting but the surface temp sure moves up and down so if it shouldn't then for sure it is bunk.
What about this? Is it possible that the heat mat, being plugged into a 3 pronged heavy duty maybe 20 ft extension cord causes it to overheat? Do I need to plug heat mat directly into wall?
I got timer delivered yesterday for 2nd tent. The timer is built into a 8 slot power supply, 4 are on the timer and 4 are always on. I plugged mat into that and now this morning surface temp was 106, so 20 degree drop.
Either way I know I am not being patient but I don't like the feeling I have. I think I cooked my Purple Dragon Balls seeds to death
When I put the beans in water for 12hr, 1 of them sank immediately and the others were fairly quick(within hours) to drop as well. I'm not sure, but I think that is a good sign that the seeds are fairly fresh and not old and dry. I would imagine an overly dry seed would have trouble sinking quickly. I say this just because I was thinking they would sprout real fast. But it has been like 18hrs and I peaked at the seeds and nothing. I just feel like the seeds looked so raring to go that had I not overheated them they would have already at least cracked. I have replacement mat coming today and will return this one. Worst comes to worst I return that and get one like you showed with probe and controls. I sure do think it is worth the cost. Just the piece of mind not to be sweatin it is well worth it and I need it for clones long-term as it gets surprisingly cold here in AZ in December with avgs for the month 45-66ish . I have 4 more PDB seeds as fail-safe but damnit I am going to be angry if I just dropped the ball, or I mean beans like this
after having postponed perpetual grow just to wait on them