Growing tomatoes in soil AND with hydroponics | Balcony Gardening
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- In this video I grow a bunch of tomato plants in different ways and show you the pros and cons of each method. I grow plants indoors, outdoors, in soil and in kratky hydroponics.
We'll go from seed to harvest with these plants and I'll show you what I think is the best way to grow tomatoes - with hydroponics in 5 gallon buckets! We'll also discuss pruning, pollinating, ripening, and all the aspects of tomato plant care.
0:00 Intro
0:26 How to Start Tomato Seeds Indoors
1:14 How to Transplant Tomato Seedlings into Pots
1:50 Tomato Plant Growth Stages - Early Flowering
2:18 How to Pollinate Tomato Plants
3:03 Blossom Drop - Tomato Flowers Not Setting Fruit - Flowers Falling Off
5:30 Tomato Plant Growth Stages - Hydroponics vs Soil Grown
6:26 Tomato Plant Anatomy - Suckers and Vines
7:28 Tomato Plant Pruning Tips and Maintenance
7:46 How to Propagate Tomato Cuttings - Cloning
8:29 Tomato Root Systems
9:46 Hydroponic Tomatoes vs Soil - Benefits of Each
11:08 How to Ripen Tomatoes on the Vine Quicker
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So much info in a single channel. This is so underrated. You, sir, have gained a sub as me. Respect.
Super Appreciated Vineeta- thank you!!
This was a fantastic video and really helped me with deciding on what I wanted to do with my tomato plant. Thank you!
So glad to hear it helped you! 🙏 good luck with your plant!
Just a bit jealous of that balcony looking over the city, very nice views! In comparison, it is nice to have a bit more room in my backyard. I ran the same experiment outdoors, along with cloning the tomato plants. Fun stuff! Thanks for your video!
I’d trade the views for a yard any day! Hope your tomatoes turned out well!
Your videos are very helpful...Thanks a lot for putting up all the info thats needed for a beginner..😊
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the kind words!!
good job jimmy
Awesome!
i am in this horticultural club and few years ago a number of them recommended the “Dyna-Ggo Foliage Pro 9-3-6. I use that on my indoor dwarf lemon and satsuma orange tree and does amazing. For my peppers/tomatoes i use the Cal Mag Plus not only in my solution, but after fruit is set, i spray the deluded formula onto the leaves to boost them green and avoid end rot. When i had problems years ago, the horticulture group came/held their meeting at my home and told me that I was at times filling my solution too high/(being lazy) and was suffocating the roots/not allowing the roots to breath/oxygenate. By doing that, the tomatoes/peppers/pumpkins could not properly intake the nutrients. They stated it wasn’t a solution mixing problem, but the ability to intake the solution. Also, in hot summer days, the tomatoes were not able to perspire fast and well enough to intake the nutrients in my solution to offset the extra growth and hot weather. ...by spraying/ zapping my tomatoes/pepper plants with the Cal-Mag Plus by spraying onto the leaves, it would offset the difficulties the plants have during hot or growing periods to uptake/have enough fertilizer to keep its fruit and also eliminate flower drop. Initially, i had thought i didn’t have my solution string enough, but the group stated that the solution was fine, just the inability at times to uptake the nutrient solution when my tomato plants were either growing too quickly or trying to set fruit. By directly spraying the leaves, you feed your plant more quickly and it has a better effect. Although, in my soil pot vegetables i use liquid fertilizer, the foliage spray fertilizer works better than liquid fertilize watering. So, i water my plants with fertilizer most of the time, but periodically i spray with foliage spray to give it that extra boost. In the past, my indoor lemon and orange tree was dropping it’s flowers and lemons, but after using foliage spray not only do i no longer have flower/fruit drop , but my leaves have also perked up and dark green healthy leaves.
Great stuff! Thanks again for sharing!
Also, tomato plants in soil benefit from cutting away all the bottom stems/leaves, and burying them deeper when initially planting in final pot. Btw, tomatoes benefit greatly by using extra large pots and even better grow pots/air pots are even better.... your tomato plants if in soil do best in air pots
Great video. You packed in a ton of tips and info into a short video. Subscribed.
I also like seeing your indoor/outdoor balcony setup is similar to mine. However, our growing season is totally opposite. I'm in Florida. We're preparing to plant right now, not harvest.
Thanks for the kind words Josh! Best of luck with your upcoming grows!!
You can add some Epsom salt, magnesium sulfate, to increase sweetness and some Calcium nitrate to stop the skin from splitting. Both of these are probably already in your nutrient solution, but not in sufficient quantities. Adding some phosphorus may help your flowers and fruit grow larger and faster.
Great tips and info Rob, thanks for sharing! Some additives likely would have gone a long way
...yes, agree with this comment, but as a 2nd or 3rd option after you have analyzed the situation properly
@@JimmyBHarvests You can also prick an apple 8 times and put your green tomatoes around it, on a plate. Next day they are all red ;)
Could you please also make video on strawberries?
I have 5 mini toms on my window seal. They are in potting mix, and they are to close together. The back side of the tomatoes leaves have died off. But they are still producing tomatoes! I just use miracle grow. I was using 18-18-21, then I use 10-52-10 every once in a while, to bring on blooms! I did just today take 2 of them outside, to open them up for more sun. The two outside have never been outside so I hope they survive. I'm in Texas and it's October 14th.
Very cool! Best of luck with your plants! Moving them outside for small periods of time can help them acclimate before moving outside permanently
Hey Jimmy - the indoor constant and warmer temp will cause indoor tomato plants & leaves to grow larger than the outdoor, but for indoor tomatoes, they will dry out more, so foliage spray is suggested....something with a calcium boost. In the wi ter time i bring in my lemon trees, they neec to be regularly zprayed with a spritz of water and twice a month at a minimum, sprayed with foliage spray to limit flower drop and end rot. Also, unlike marijuana plants, tomato plants like temp. Fluxuation....say cooler at night/allow tomato plants to rest at night in cooler environment and then turn on grow lights during the day.
Very cool! I need to look into some of these foliage sprays you mention
Through my experiments, my foliage spray worked amazingly. I use 1-2 times per month and gives it the extra zap/boost it needs. I also started adding the Cal Mag Plus into my hydrophobic solution and greens up my vegetable plants more. I get more flowers, flowers don’t drop. Also once the first set of peppers/tomatoes appear (larger than dime size) i spray it directly onto the the leaves and no more end rot
Jimmy, if I'm going to Kratky tomatoes and use REMO nutes, do I add micro, grow and bloom all together or what would you recommend?
I haven’t used that brand but all micro/grow/bloom are pretty much the same. Follow the dosage amounts on the bottle and mix micro into your water first, then grow and bloom. You’ll always use all three for the whole lifecycle of the plant. Add more water/nutrients occasionally as the plant drinks them up. Good luck!
Hi, Jimmy. I saw you trim the roots very short. Is it gonna hurt the plant? Thanks.
Trim the roots? Nah dont touch the roots. I cut some secondary stems/branches to shape the plant and keep it focused on fruiting rather than vegetative growth. You always want as many roots as possible though.
@@JimmyBHarvests I just watched your video again and the roots you cut is of the plant you want to discard. Sorry for confusing you and thanks for the reply.
Good video .im doing hydroponic tomato plants using 2 suckers in a pot ive sort of invented a telescopic pot .so far great video if you get chance see my progress so far please do thanks paul
very helpful info, did you finally find out what caused the flowers drop for indoor plant. and what about the covering of sun for 2 days didn't the tomato plant completely get any sunlight or any light?
Hard to truly say what caused the flower drops, I think it was temperatures being too high indoors. Covering the plant outside did block the sun, but that’s exactly what the plant needed to soak up water and come back to life, it was super dried out. This had no negative impact on the plant because it was only a couple days.
@@JimmyBHarvests ...just a couple of guesses after watching Jeb Gardener...1) if you have too much nitrogen....youll make loads f green but no fruits...and 2.....the root zone may be getting too hot...maybe circulating cooler water might help
What size reservoir did you use for your outdoor hydroponic plant and how often did you have to ad water and nutrients
5 gallon buckets. I check on the reservoir every 5-7 days and top it up when needed. If the reservoir is less than 50% full I top up, leaving 10% of roots exposed to air always
With regards to the plant wanting to keep growing, and nutrients, have you ever heard of the Lucas Method? You only use the Bloom, and Micro nutes and don’t use the Grow. It’s a 2/1 ratio of Bloom to Micro that you double every week. Oh, and you also use a Calmag as well. It’s an older style of growing that helps the plant concentrate on producing big buds/fruit and not growing so much. I’m not a tomato guy (yet) so I’m not sure if it would work, but I would be willing to send you the stuff needed to try it out for us!
That’s some interesting stuff! I’ll look into this a bit more. Not sure if I can pull it off as the Advanced nutrients ph perfect technology requires all three components and I don’t have any ph measuring tools. I’ll look into it more though and see what I can come up with- planning to start some tomatoes soon with spring coming!
JimmyB Harvests I could send you some GH Bloom and Micro to use along with a pH pen. You’re in Canada somewhere right?
Yes sir! Jimmyb.harvests@gmail.com
Do you ever need to change the water in the hydroponics system? You seem to suggest that it is less maintenance than the soil setup so I assume no.
I typically just check in on the reservoir and top it up when necessary. I rarely do a full change.
hey your weed videos made me get into the weed growing, now I wanna grow tomatos, whats a good nutrient thing? im growing hydroponic
yeah nvm im growing indoors this wont work whats a good plant to grow indoors I wanna grow some veggies and fruits
Peppers and peas were better for indoors than the tomatoes I thought. Pea plants grow quick too. Check out the channel for videos on both plants! 😊
I used a chadwick cherry tomato variety seed in my hydroponics system in June first week but haven't yet got any flowers. Plz help. I have pruned the plant multiple times when it outgrew the hydroponics system
Could be too hot, too cold, not enough light..? Good luck with it!
Can u do the same comparison with bud thank you
Did you keep track on how much$$$ you spent and how much tomatoes you harvest? Will it be cheaper if you buy from the store?
If you’re able to grow with sunlight it’s cheaper than the store, for sure. If you’re running an LED light though, you’re better off just buying tomatoes from the store. Electricity is by far the most expensive input
Sorry to bother you JimmyB Harvest, this was a full kratky method, right? No airpumps, just the water reservoir.
No air pump, just the reservoir. I think in Kratky’s research, he used one massive reservoir the entire grow and never altered it. I topped up my reservoir as needed to keep the bucket full.
@@JimmyBHarvests Neato. Thanks for answering :D. I will start mine soon then, despise i will try to use liquid fertilizer / worm casting since i still dont have the propper equipement (Not even for meassuring ph :C)
....most other vegetables dont benefit from stripping the bottom stem and burying the stem further, but with tomato plants tbey will grow a further more developed root system by doing so. You can still get tomatoes indoors, but make sure to spritz the leaves regularly and use a foliage fertilizer to give it a bost indoor fruit production. Make sure you don`t leave the grow light on 24/7.....most vegetable plants need a period they can rest /sleep. Also, if using grow lights/led, u really don`t need need to have it right by tge window if you are getting too much of a sun/magnifying situation.... this causes your flowers to drop and dries out your plant.
I figured out your problem at point 4:55
Your plants were getting STONED by their neighbors! The pot plants. 🤣
😂😂😂 you might be on to something there
Have you harvested you cannabis plant ?
I have! :) Video coming soon!
Beautiful apartment where the hell is this guy and what does he do to afford this?
Toronto area, marry up 😂😂
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