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where does one get a good cheap bottom heater?

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 09:58 AM, Mark Lee wrote:

> Del,
> I followed Lon's instructions this year which included bottom heat.  
> Like
> you, I had great success this year rooting cuttings.  Compare this to 
> an
> earlier attempt without the heat which was a failure.
>
> When can I expect my first harvest from these cuttings?
> -Mark Lee, Seattle zone 7B/8A
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of del stubbs
> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 3:32 PM
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] grape propagating
>
>
>
> Thanks to learning from Lon and a neighbor I am getting much better 
> grape
> propagating. The neighbor gave me an old warming tray he got for a 
> dollar at
> a garage sale. In the fall of 2002 I acquired a nice bunch of grape 
> sticks
> to propagate from.
> I put half of them under a small compost pile in November just before 
> freeze
> up. These I dug up and planted in late april when the ground was 
> defrosted.
> The other half I stored in a bag in the veggie drawer of our fridge 
> until
> late March when our closed porch stayed around 25 degreeF. I put the 
> sticks
> in damp peat moss in coffee cans and placed them on the warming tray 
> for
> bottom heat / cold tops. By late april they had callused nicely. Both 
> sets
> of sticks were planted adjacent individually in a piece of plastic 
> permeable
> mulch. I just uploaded a pic of the experiment (taken 2 weeks ago). 
> The lush
> growth on the right is of  the bottom heated ones, on the left are the 
> cold
> planted ones - and only 1/2 of them have budded at all.  Del
>    http://pinewoodforge.com/grape.propagation.html
>
> Del Stubbs  www.pinewoodforge.com  ag zone2/3
>
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