Hydroponic Tomatoes
Hi Mike,
I've attached a couple pics of the plants as a few weeks ago but they are doing pretty well with the Better Boy producing about 40 flowers/buds/tomatoes after planting on Oct 22. I expect ripe tomatoes in a couple weeks.
Nutrient solution - FluroDuo A and B, Root Starter additive, and when plants got to flowering stage I switched to Texas Tomato Food
Light - 1000W HPS bulb set at 600 W from a variable ballast which gave enough light at 25-30 moles/m2/day
As plants got bigger i switched to recirculating drip system using a third bucket as nutrient solution reservoir that equilibrates its volume with the other two buckets.
I know I have a lot to learn so please share specifics about your dutch bucket grow experience. I'm currently taking an intensive tomato hydroponic course at Univ of Arizona this week to learn about commercial greenhouse growing of hydroponic tomatoes.
Thanks for the response.
Kind regards,
Bill
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