Stewart 2599005 Variable Control Electric Propagator, 52 cm - Black

The temperature probes are a bit fiddly. But my tomato seeds were up in days

Pretty sturdy I felt anyway. Pros it's spacious for small plants and easily fits on a windowsill. The ventilation flap seems to do the job and easily functions or though not airtight. Cons it could be taller in my view, controlling the temperature on a hot day especially can be difficult as needs attention, I'm not sure the thermostat fully detects the surrounding air temperature very well if at all and will still pump on if it feels it need be creating high temps so keep an eye and work the vent if not take the cover off completely for at least 45 mins to cool. Better to have digi thermometer to keep track of the humidity to assist. It's not too much hassle in the grand scheme. Can leave on 24 hrs but with weather change vs thermostat better not too leave it more than 48hrs without attention (and obviously watering/ feeding anyway :) ) remember water=vapour=high air humidity temp in hot conditions.. dont hot box the plants lol you wouldn't sit in a sauna without water for even 2 hrs would you?...

I would have given this 5 stars but it was delivered incomplete, 2 of the screws that hold the base with the heating mat in it to the top half of the unit were missing, this resulted in the base being lose and separating from the top half, because I am that way inclined I have found some screws that fitted and repaired it myself, the unit works okay, and otherwise intact, but cannot give 5 stars as it was incomplete. Actually wanted to give 3.5 stars but don’t have that option.

Quite simply a 5 star product. Great build quality. Very thick and heavy grade. Heavy duty plug and thick cables. Heavy duty thermostat controller with nice screw hole / cable tie hole to keep it somewhere. Thick plastic. Powerful heater. Great size. Thermostat is accurate. I would highly reccomend this product under the "Buy once, Cry once" policy. Very happy. P.s. this is about 1 month into ownership. It deserved the time to leave this review. Plastic cover is very clear. And the vent covers are lovely. They slide with great precision and acuracy. It is tall enough to use 1l pots and still have head room. You can fit 12 1l pots perfectly as a size guide.

So far not impressed. I'm an engineer so have a fair idea how the electronics works. I have the supposedly temperature controlled, 50W version and have it set to maximum which claims to be 28'C. I have had it running for 24 hours with the vents closed and using a digital thermometer I am barely seeing 1.5'C warmer inside than the surface on which the device is standing. Outside the propagator the temperature is 25'C, inside is at best 26.5'c which to me is what I might expect for an unheated propagator. The LED in the controller lights as expected, and never goes out unless I lower the temperature control. I am currently assuming the temperature control is so course that it really can't see the difference between 28 and 25 but if that's the case, I would expect the LED on the controller to go out, indicating it thinks it has reached temperature. It may just be that the heater is very under-powered for the task. I'm unconvinced the heater is working at the moment and it's not going to be fun trying to return such a large item. Update 1 - Looks like quality control issues, big surprise. Considering dismantling and will report on what I find. Update 2 - Confirmed now that even the second device delivered as 50W (and even a label on the cable claiming that) is actually 22W. I've accepted a partial refund on condition the 50W ones are withdrawn from sale (otherwise I would need to report this).

Tomato brocolli strawberry and pea seeds propagated in this so far, germination rate much higher than my non heated propegators, decent and sturdy no nonsense piece of kit Aldi are selling the same brand and model for £20 in the middle isle and I only realised this after it arrived but I don't regret the price I paid for it given how effective it is, besides by the time youre reading this there won't be any left in Aldi ;) Took a while to heat up when first plugged in but once it got there it's worked brilliantly!

Love this. I am well into Bonsai's and have recently taken to growing from seed. You get that extra satisfaction from creating something from scratch, even though it's going to take ages longer! I never had any luck with normal seed sowing in pots on a windowsill, so went for one of these. I sowed some dwarf pomegranate seeds in this unit two weeks ago, set the temperature, and left it to it. I checked today, and several have germinated and sprouted already. Well happy. Not sure that I trust the temperature scale on the little thermostatic control box though. I wanted between 18-20 c but ended up having to set it to about 24 c on the dial for get this. Oh, and ideally you should buy a good soil thermometer probe thing and leave it in the soil so that you can fine tune the temperature until it reads what you need. There is a probe on a long lead that runs off the control box which you need to poke into the soil. It uses this to set the temperature (just not accurately enough IMO). A small slot in the back of the clear cover allows this cable to route to the outside.

It’s fine and does the job, very simple but overpriced for what it is.

Für den Preis ist das voll in Ordnung. Und es sieht auch noch ziemlich schick aus, wie es daher kommt. So dass es im Zimmer nicht einmal ein Schandfleck ist sondern auch noch Deko. Super.

Por el precio que tiene está bien, pero decir que la tapadera es muy débil. Hace su función bien. Repetiría.

Leggera ed utilissima per la germinazione dei semi.

This is an excellent way to propagate vegetable plants in reasonable numbers very fast and reliably

Ich hatte mir das Minigewächshaus-Set bestellt, weil ich die die Kombination von Gewächshäusschen mit 100ml More Roots, und 20ml Fast Start Gel von Green Buzz als Set ansprechend fand. Leider hatte ich vorab keine Rezensionen gelesen. Ich habe leider auch nur das Minigewächshaus, ohne obige Set Inhalte bekommen. Daraufhin habe ich den Amazon Kundendienst kontaktiert und mir wurde eine Ersatz-Lieferung geschickt - wieder OHNE 100ml More Roots, und 20ml Fast Start Gel von Green Buzz! Ich hatte den Amazon Mitarbeiter explizit darum gebeten, ihre Produktbeschreibung anzupassen und/oder mit dem Hersteller Kontakt aufzunehmen, was leider bisher wohl nicht passiert ist. Grundsätzlich sind die Mitarbeiter bemüht eine Lösung zu finden - was aber leider nicht immer so Reibungslos und gemäß Absprache zu funktionieren scheint.