Plant and root protection with heating tapes ILL
Not all plants could be taken inhouse during wintertime
report of the regional television of Baden Württemberg:
"Roundabout with underfloor heating: Because the city Müllheim like to show itself as a city with Southern Flair there have been planted three olive trees between lava stones on a roundabout.
To ensure that the trees will not freeze during cold winter time, a heating tape is put into the ground as a root heating
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This is how a root heating can look like
bubble
wrap is more efficent
Due to the heat output of heating tape the
pot is hindered of freezing
The plant should be wind protected afterall.
The plug-in with integrated heating thermostat will
be put into or around the outside of the pot:
If the heating tape is
in the potting soil of the pot, power termination and end termination must
be outside the potting soil.
If the heating tape is outsiode the pot
it should have worked aluminum foil
aropund it to reeach a better heat distribution.
The required length is easy to calculate:
Diameter of the pot / root ball in meters x 3 x (height of the
Pot / root ball in cm divide
by 20)
Example a pot 50cm high, 50cm diameter is: 0.5 x 3 x (50/20 = 2.5
rounded up) = 3 total: 4.5 m -> 5m heating
tape
Hint for fixing the heating
tape at a root ball
You can use this special fixing nail, normally used to fix styrofoam plates. You can get this at your home depot.
Stick them into the root ball and fix the heating ctape at them