Hydroponic Tomatoes
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at
7:18 am
this is a cheap hydroponic setup i made from easy to find things....it is in my apt on my comp desk ....anything u want to know just ask...
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gr8 video thanx…do you remove suckers from your tomato plants ?
awesome!
Very good informative video mate. Thanks.
Impressive system and good videos so far. I will be watching your progress with great interest. I’m jealous of your weather, our temperature won’t break over 30 today.
okay thanks alot man!!! i really didint know how to get those zip ties off hahahah
“I was lucky enough to win some Bhut Jolokia pepper seeds from Red Icculus. In case you haven’t heard of these they are the hottest peppers on earth having a heat rating of over 1 million scoville units. Just to put that into comparison jalapenos are around 5000 scoville units. One property of this pepper is the way the heat builds after consumption, on first bite it is spicy but takes a few seconds until you really feel the burn which is where it gets the name “ghost pepper.” Now when dealing with these peppers I recommend using extreme caution I have some pain in my nose hours later just from breathing around these things so vinyl gloves and possibly even a mask would be recommended. Once you have the safety precautions in place the process is actually very simple. Just break them up and pick the seeds up and store in a homemade seed packet. Now eating the pepper whole is not a challenge I want to take though saving the dried pepper flakes and adding a pinch so some chili might be up my alley. Though if you want to watch some people in pain taking see these videos of people taking the Bhut Jolokia pepper challenge on YouTube. Here is my favorite and my inspiration to not take the challenge. I am planning on trying to grow one of these using my new hydroponic setup, well at least once I get around to building…so stay tuned.”
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I’ve made one like this thanks for the tips and tricks it work gr8!!!! i’ll post a video in response….
Gorgeous day at the Market yesterday! We had our first tomatoes (hydroponic). It's beginning to look a lot like spring in TX!
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Cleaned and setup my Hydroponic greenhouse. Have plastic cut plastic milk containers in half to use as mini cloches inside green house
yes you can transplant your tomatoes.
i guess the tomato one could work…if we could believe that kids like to bite into tomatoes!
the africans who would eat those tomatoes and get something else than corn porridge or something would care thats who.
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If you pick them when they are red and leave them on the counter, they will soften.
I pick my tomatoes as soon as I see that they are starting to change color because I have found that if I leave them until they turn red, the birds and bugs tend to attack them.
Make sure you keep the vines off the ground or the tomatoes will rot. Go to the nursery and they will show you how to tie them up. Cut off all dead leaves.
Never touch the tomatoes when they have water on them. Let them dry out in the afternoon sun.
We plant 5 varieties of tomatoes because you never know which one will do well. They are all basically the same.
Plant marigolds near the plants, they repel the pests that are attracted to tomatoes.
Eventually you might go out one day and see all the tomatoes covered with bugs. They have red heads and they look like spiders. They are stink bugs. Just shake the vine and they will generally fall off. If you pick a tomotoe that still has one on it, just blow it off. It won't hurt you.
This is a great time for fried green tomatoes and if you want the recipe along with the best chitney sauce (a nice sweet tomatoe sauce), let me know, just email me.
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if money is a limiting factor, why go for a hydroponic setup.you can go for something which will get the same results that will not cost you as much money.what you need to is plant your plants in a soilless medium,and then hand feed with a suitable nutrient mix,it may be more labour-intensive than a hydroponic setup,but the results will be similar.
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so where do i place the tomatoes seed?
With either system you start out the same. Take several gallons of fresh water, mix in the appropriate nutrients and you are ready to go for several days or weeks.
Typically, in the case of drain to waste, the roots of your garden would be growing in something like a bag of pearlite, bucket of shredded coco husk or rockwool slab. In order to deliver the aforementioned nutrient solution into the root zone you would have a system of small tubing, float valves or drip emitters. This provides a continuous supply of water droplets that maintain a damp but not water logged growing medium. This being necessary to maintain an appropriate ratio of oxygen and water along with the nutrients the plant needs. People call this drain to waste because once the nutrient solution is applied to the roots it's gone, you won't be getting it back. In some systems you may have a catch pan that collects excess runoff but this should be discarded. One factor that makes drain to waste appealing is that you could mix a large tank of nutrients with all the variables dialed into your liking and you can leave it for an extended time. The pH and nutrient content won't change on it's own, for example. Drain to waste kits are generally cheap, fairly simple and are good to start with if you have only a limited number of plants. This is an example of tomato plants growing in rockwool slabs, common in commercial hydroponic operations. Once the nutrients have drained into the slab of rockwool the used nutrients will need to be replaced with a fresh batch at some point in the future.
Recirculation system can come in several forms but all basically apply the nutrient solution repeatedly. This could either be the roots being suspended directly a bucket containing nutrient solution or plants that are in a container which is flooded and then allowed to drain several times over the course of the day. Check out these pictures for a better idea:
If the pictures look at all complicated, don't worry, there is really nothing to it. With a recirculation system you need to regularly check the pH and conductivity levels since the plants will be absorbing nutrients at differing rates and the chemistry of the solution will be in flux and thus require some minor adjustments to keep the plants happy. Nothing the average person can't master though! Hobbyists with a large number of plants typically use a recirculation system since one one water supply can feed a large number of plants where a run to waste system will usually have one water supply for something like 1-6 plants. If you have 30 plants that's 5-30 water reservoirs you would have to take care of using a typical hobbyist drain to waste system compared to just 1 water supply in a recirculation system. Another advantage with recirculation based systems is that, with some experience, you can stretch a little water a long ways.
Hope that helps!
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Try this magazine (from australia)
http://www.hydroponics.com.au/back_issues/issue76.html
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You need a submersible pump and a hose. That would take care of all your problems. They range in price between $20 and $115 and you can get them at any hydroponics store or online. The price difference is due to the power and the clerk should be able to tell you what you need for your size tank and the height that it's in. Hook it up to an electric timer to drain as needed.
Don't forget to aerate your water as well so if you don't have one, buy an Air stone and Air pump as well. Again, you can find them online very cheap.
Good luck.
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I get those immature tomatos 95 percent of the time because that’s the best my grocery store can do. I keep them for a week and they do get ripe. Not much flavor but still good for the salad.
i loved this cartoon as a kid and i was always baffled that a tomatoe turned into a hot chick
I just read this on Mixx “Hydroponic Tomatoes” #gardening [from
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During the late winter at book signings, she met lines of downtrodden gardeners. “People were not prepared for the winter we had,” she says. “For the past few years, people have been planting tropical and semi-tropical plants too far north. A lot of them bit the dust.” Stibolt tells those gardeners that new opportunities await after winter’s destruction, a sentiment shared by many gardeners through the ages, including a famous author who liked to roll up her sleeves. “The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before,” wrote Vita Sackville-West, who shared in the toiling and creating of her gardens at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, England, in the early 1900s. They remain among the most visited gardens in England. 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Great system! My only critique would be to keep your nutrient solution in something that keeps dark inside like a rubbermaid container and using dark hoses. (sunlight induces unwanted algie and bacteria growth). Georgeous set-up!
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