Award-winning propagator shines out
Want to get a head start on sowing? The Vitopod heated propagator with lights will help you on your way to earlier and bigger crops.
The multi-award-winning Vitopod heated propagator now features a light kit. This securely holds two lights above the propagator, overcoming the difficulty of attaching lights to greenhouse or polytunnel frames. I can vouch for this. My grow light is in a desk lamp with a Heath Robinson-style string and pulley system. Its height is adjustable, precise and distributes heat evenly, preventing hot or cold spots, and giving seeds and cuttings the best start.
Vitopod heated propagator with lights – The propagator
Available in two sizes (50-watt L56cm x W56cm and 100-watt L111cm x W56cm).
Height adjustable: single height Vitopod is 24cm tall. Extra layers are 15cm each, so the Vitopod grows with the plants.
Precise control: Vitopod’s thermostat can be set to any 1°C between 5°C and 30°C. Perfect for seed germination, hardening off and overwintering.
Even heat throughout the base: seeds germinate evenly with higher success rates.
Accurate temperature sensor: triggers the supply of heat depending on the sensor reading, maintaining the temperature without wasting electricity.
Large vents: for humidity control to prevent damping-off.
Robust: built to last. The acrylic lids and sides are treated to prevent yellowing.
The lights
Dimensions: 90cm long and 39 watts for the 100-watt Vitopod, 60cm long and 24 watts for the 50-watt model.
Highly efficient: uses 50 per cent less energy than a standard fluorescent lamp.
High light output: the nanotech reflectors capture and reflect 99.9 per cent of light. This increases lumen availability by 300 per cent and diffuses light deep into the foliage.
Long lamp life: typically 10,000 hours.
Vitopod heated propagator with lights – Award-winning design
Awards include:
- Most Innovative Product Bronze award 2016 and 2017, Grow Your Own magazine readers.
- Hydropod Propagator: Most Innovative Product Bronze Award 2017, Grow Your Own magazine.
- Best Online Garden Retailer: Bronze Award 2016, Grow Your Own magazine readers.
- Geopod Propagator: Best New Product, Garden Press Event visitors 2016.
2025 UPDATE: The Vitopod range has been updated, and a limited number of old units are still available for £139.99. There’s an updated range, starting with the basic New Small Vitopod Electric Variable Temperature Control Propagator, price £149.99.
Vitopod heated propagator with lights is available from www.GreenhouseSensation.co.uk, a British retailer and manufacturer of gardening products. Products on the Greenhouse Sensation website are extensively trialled in the company’s greenhouses and polytunnels in Lancashire. They grow their own bananas, pineapples, chillies and ginger!
Read more about growing plants in propagators.
