Hydroponic greenhouse update

in #gardening7 years ago (edited)

Hey,

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As you can see things have been going pretty well in the greenhouse, my tomatoes reached the top of their vines and some the top of the greenhouse so I had to lower the strings supporting them.
I'm going to go round the ends of my bucket lines with the plants and move them horizontally as they grow , eventually moving the growing part of the plant over the adjacent bucket line.
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I've removed a lot of the lower leaves on all plants, they're going to start being more horizontal so we don't want lots of leaves getting tangled and a mess in general.
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The tomatoes on the first truss on some of the plants that produce larger fruit have developed blossom end rot, but the fruit higher up are fine so I don't really worry about that.
Judging by how it looks, I'm going to have a pretty large tomato harvest.

This cluster is insane!
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This plant is the star so far, it is the Modus variety. It's not the only one on which I had to prune flowers of as the trusses were getting ridiculous.
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We've got some Sungolds ripening as well. 20170705_132937_HDR.jpg

And here's how many leaves I've taken off.
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Well, that's it.

Thanks for having a look!

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Love it! They're growing like crazy. What fertilizer do you use? Anything in particular?

I'm using the Miracle gro soluble fertiliser. I couldn't find proper hydroponic fertilisers in powder form around here, so when I stumbled across this one in a shop I thought I'd give it a go. Had to ignore dosing instructions as I'm growing hydroponically so giving the plants the box recommended dosage would have probably burnt them.
But, it's working pretty well so far, the plants seem happy!

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Looking very nice costopher. Keep the updates coming.

Thank you!
You as well, I've liked your nutes post. Great work; without the fish I can be lazier and just make sure my ec stays constant.

Hey @costopher, nice work with the dutch bucket setup. Looks like a nice tomato harvest coming in.

Thank you!
Yes, I've started picking them today and it looks like it's going to be a daily thing from now on!

That's great. I know how good that feels. Once they start coming in it like winning the tomato lottery. Enjoy them!

Oh, I will enjoy them, cheers! Going to dry some as well.

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