End of summer update on my Deep Water Culture, Kratky Method & Compost Tea Hydroponic Tomato comparison.
End of summer update on my Deep Water Culture, Kratky Method & Compost Tea Hydroponic Tomato comparison.
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Hi it was interesting to me. It would appreciate if you could give me more
details.
The method will be same as other hydroponic veggie?
Thank you?
Hello, First year with DWC is done :DDD Can’t wait for next one 🙂 Please
tell me sth about your fertilizer, or better, the NPK ratio. ?
Where are you located? Those maters look good. How’d they taste? Janice?
Good information, just the way I needed it! Like your narrative style.
Thanks for sharing!?
Air stones…… air pump will help roots to breathe and you’ll have better
results?
looking good?
Where did you purchase the black buckets??
Thanks for showing this.. especially how to mitigate the root rot.. Most
people will have plenty of problems with Root Rot.. You may want to try
some Trichoderma Spores in the early stages of your growing to protect your
roots from infection.?
What is Kratky??
What is DWD??
The only veggie I grow inside is lettuce,because of Global warming,has made
Florida direct sunlight over 100 degrees Fahrenheit,which kills,lettuce and
deforms the lettuce that doesn’t die.I will try some hydroponic
lettuce.”Early Girl” was the best hydro lettuce I ever tasted.?
nice video how many tomatoes did you get per plant?
yes the crop looks good! Just going through your comments and to recap for
us novices…
1) What are the strings for…How to you set up the pots for a growing vine?
2) What is the best additive/growing medium for taste?
3) What/how much sunlight can the plants stand?
I rent, can’t dig up the backyard so Hydroponics is the way to go. Backyard
is direct sunlight. Garage has no sunlight and growing inside is out of the
question.I can erect a tarp but will have to set up/tear down daily.?
the question is…..how did they taste? Did they have a rich earthy mineral
taste? If not, you might want to try adding rockdust and sea-90 to the
mix. ?
Nice looking tomatoes! I do Kratky, and dutch buckets. I like your channel.
I just subbed you.?
Perhaps the issue with your Kratky setup is that the technique was
developed for use with specifically hydroponic fertilizers, not organic
compost teas and such. Potassium, needed by tomatoes in good quantities,
are apparently hard to supply via earthworm castings, compost, etc. Some
micronutrients could also be an issue. You’ve seen the tomato monsters
Bobby, mhpgardener, grows…but his is not trying to use purely organic
nutrients.
The other thing is that the Kratky method was primarily developed for
short-grow crops like lettuce, where the reservoir never needs to be
refilled. By the time the nutrient level drops to near-zero, the crop is
done, ready to harvest. But, for long-growth crops, the nutrient level
needs to be replenished…and the higher level solution could now drown the
roots that adapted to be in the air. My gut feeling is that the level
should only be raised by a few inches once it’s dropped to near the bottom
of the reservoir OR an air-stone should be added if raising the liquid back
up more than that…sort of a hybrid Kratky-DWC setup.
As for size…personally, a quarter pound tomato is just fine. With larger
ones, we tend to cut them, not use all of the tomato, and then what? Let it
sit half-used in the fridge? Better to have smaller ones and use the entire
fruit every time you cut one open. Plus, some of the best disease-resistant
types are bred to supply 4 oz fruits, and that’s fine with me.?
Thank you. I’m also experimenting so this was a really useful video. ?
put heat in your greenhouse you could have tomatoes all year?
u did that without cilculating water??
Hi Larry, nice update lots of tomatoes you grew. What kind of plants are
they? My celebrity grew ok in the gutter system, but I did not get lots of
tomatoes.
Hi Ron thanks for the comments ! I think i’m going to stick with DWC.
excelente v
Holy Tomatos!!!! Great job!!! I am totally impressed.
Thanks Lee, i’ll keep a look out for them.