Heat mat necessity?

[blatanna]

I have been reading up a thread on another forum about the value of soaking seed or not. They did a trial of soaking the seed in water, tea and some other solutions and came up with the end result. The seed all germinated at the same rate and the same persentage of seed germinated.
At some stage or other we will all probanly try different methods and in the end its all about what works for you.