Do you keep aubergines and sweet peppers on heat?

[peanut]

Hi folks,

Usually once I prick out my aubergines and sweet peppers I remove them from all heat and move them into an unheated prop in the house under growlights.
This year I have no central heating so the house gets rather nippy, when its really cold it can get to a low of between 9-11c.
I have pricked them all out today and at the moment I have left the heat mat on, in an unheated prop with a lid and put some little slithers of wood in there to raise the plastic trays off the heat mat, vents open.

My question is should I keep my aubergines and sweet peppers on heat all the time, just at night or not at all? I really can't decide what to do!

Thanks all

[Vince G]

Not pricked mine out yet, but when I do, they will sit on a sunny windowsill with no heat at night.

9 - 11°C at night will be fine, but if you wanted to give them a little bit of heat raised off you heat mat, that would be fine too.

More than one way to skin a cat! LOL

[peanut]

Thanks Vince G just the advice I was hoping for!

[smallblueplanet]

We (previously) grew aubs and peppers from seed in a 56cm heated propagator. We'd prick them out into slightly bigger modules, or even small rootrainers, and then put them back into the heated prop. Unsurprisingly they grow on much better than ones without heat was what we found.