Seed-starting Cap Mat sets

Help protect and nourish those plants starts, seeds, and clones!

The smaller the plant and the less soil or potting mix, the easier to both dry out and get too wet. And when either of those happen, plant momentum slows or stops. Keeping this cap mat set on your trays, under your plants can help prevent both of those problems. If one plant gets too much  water a, it will spread to the water to other ones on the tray. If a plant doesn't get enough, it can share the water from another one that got more than it needs. 

These come 12" wide by 23" long so they easily fit into a standard 10" x 20" seed-starting tray or anything smaller -- just cut with scissors to fit. The cap mat holds and spreads the water around, the MicroFab goes on top of the mat, under the plants and prevents algae, evaporation, and the roots from growing into the capillary mat.

Put water in the tray manually, automatically with a Surface Blumat, a Tropf-Blumat in one of the pots, with a strip of cap mat going to a water source, or with our new Clear Globe connected to a Surface Blumat.

Key Benefits 

• Water comes from bottom so roots grow down instead of staying closer to the surface; 
• Prevents both under- and overwatering
• Flexibility -- water different plant types in different sized pots on same bed
• Move plants on and off without needing to change water lines or emitters
• Easy set up -- just get water to the bed, don't worry about getting it to the plants
• Prevents fungal diseases, powdery mildew, and root rot. 
• Lower water use, little evaporation; can reduce water usage by up to 50%
• Versatility -- use for everything between a small windowsill to a large commercial operation; from a deluxe automated system to manual, low-cost choices  
• Increased and uniform growth
• Low maintenance 
• Lower costs, less labor