I'm so jealous. I drive a truck for a living and it's killing me. Literally. This would be so fun. Watching plants grow, pruning and selling produce would be so rewarding, it wouldn't be a "job". Congratulations. You have my dream job.
Hi, the thing you have to take into account is this, when you grow in hydroponics, the plants have what they want all the time, instead the plant having to look for what it needs in soil. They are so green, and like a jungle because you need to cut back on the nitrogen you are putting in. When i have been growing this way, i have find that the plants in water, well need 75% less fertilizer, but still grow 30% faster. Tomatoes taste so much sweeter, and everthing you grow can be done this way on your farm.
Holly Molly that is some huge mater plants! Nope no weeds for me.. LMBO.. Those maters in the soil are massive no doubt but when you went into the hydro house those plants are freaking awesome!!! So amazing how the hydro blows soil away hands down. The darker color maters mean they pulling more Nigerien then the one beside it. This is normal so no worries! I am so happy for you folks! This is proof that hydro is the way to grow. Thanks so much for allowing me to been a part of helping y'all get this up and running. Pat each other on the backs on a job very well done! Stay safe up there! We cooking down here and lost a lot of plants. Hope you have a great week my friends!
Aloha guys from here in American Samoa, a US territory in the south Pacific. I came upon your videos around last quarter of last and i found them very informative and i watch them to get some ideas and information on lettuce production especially because i grow them in a vertigro system in a 24 x 48 greenhouse. i'm leaning more and more now to a trough system. Thanks a lot for sharing those videos. Stay safe. Mahalo.
Beautiful veggies! *This is such a positive uplifting vibe for any rainy day really. God must have blessed this man and his lovely widow for thier inspiring and educational videos, they are priceless.🌞
You guys are amazing family and hydroponic grow no doubt. I'm just starting my green house n Canadian compound in Algiers, watched 3 of your videos and feels like been doing this for years. Like the positive vibes coming from your side in each video of yours, easy way of explaining things, but most of all I like the comparison you run between hydroponic and soil grow. THANK YOU very much for doing these video, believe me you are making a big changes in our lives. Thanks again - Galal
Both 4 & 5 are stunning! One whole month's difference in age is really amazing. Since they grow & produce so quickly, you can extend your growing season I bet. Hope they taste as good as the inground tomatoes. All the plants in both houses look perfect - love the dark green tomatoes & the peppers. Thanks, Wayne for sharing the nutrient recipe - super kind of you! Have a great week guys.
Once again thank you for sharing your detailed results. Your info has helped me improve my planting 100 fold. I just can't tell you how much I appreciate your knowledge and time.
Thanks so much for the review. I really appreciate how you folks have taken your approach to a basic, simple level. it makes much more sense than trying to replicate what the hydro store tries to tell you which really pushes more product. Forgot to mention I run both soil (raised beds) outdoors and hydro greenhouse dutch buckets. I do both because I enjoy the outdoor garden but the hydro is a season extender for me. Next season I plan to use the slabs - I'm a much smaller operation but like the idea of slabs rather than dutch buckets - probably start with just one slab. Rather than NFT channels for strawberries, I think the slabs would be great. It's such a pain in the butt to be constantly chasing nutrient water, levels, temp, etc. I think the slabs would balance that out a bit. I already use MB for soil grown tomato fertilizer and love it but will likely adopt your barrel/pump approach and push nutrients through the drip tapes instead of just water. So thanks a bunch for the clear and simple review of your operation. I've learned a lot from you folks. Take care, God bless.
Must admit I preferred the Hydroponics setup to soil - much more control over pests and soil borne diseases. You are lucky with your water. My Hydroponics setup was bought second hand and because they were on a dodgy water supply they had to have a Water Deionizer. My farm we had a waterfall on a stream - where we collected it ensured water oxygenation as well.
I always tell people not to worry, they'll ripen... I had a buddy that had over 100lbs on the outdoor vines and a snow storm was moving in with freezing temps for over a week. He was going to trash them because they were green. I said I'll take them and when they ripen I'll make you a bunch of sauce. I picked them all, put them in my south facing window and 2 weeks later I had less than one pound that rotted, and over 99 lbs of ripe tomatoes... Along with my toms (40+ lbs), onions, garlic, chilis, peppers, carrots, celery, and herbs from my garden, I made 120 gallons of sauce for me, my friends, and the food pantry...
Wow, I am super impressed with your crop, I am going to DIY my own hydroponic garden. of course, it will be on a much smaller scale since I live in a house with a small yard. I am so impressed with the tomato growth, I also want to plant some beefsteak, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, and zucchini. as well as sweet peppers, hydroponically maybe 1 or 2 of each plant. But I also really really want to do berries, I live in Ontario as well, and I was just curious, have you ever tried to grow strawberries, blueberries, or raspberries using the hydroponic method? I love to get your feedback on this.
If you cut a old tire rim in half with a grinder ( smaller rim ) and make a 3 or 4 deep by an inch wide to slide onto the barrel with the round side up your hose will not pinch. Used to do it for construction site dewatering wells.
Fantastic, you folks are inspiring....love to get more information of spacing of the plants and the aisles in between for tomato, cucumber and peppers.
It’s all about your pH. The proper range is 5.4-5.8 if you can keep it in that range with oxygenation of the water. You can set it on cruise control. Also, any nutrients, cut the recommended amount in half. The nutrients are more available to the plants therefore you don’t need to feed them as heavy. Supplement with silica as well
Thanks for the video. You asked why there is variation in your tomatoes. One possible reason is this… If you grew your tomatoes from seed, and the seed that you used isn’t an F1 hybrid, you always get a certain amount of variation. If you are growing F1 hybrids but the two parents weren’t fully inbred, you can also get some degree of variation. It can be difficult for breeder to fully inbreed certain parents as they get weaker and weaker with each generation of inbreeding and ideally they need to be inbred around 5-7 times to get perfectly uniform plants. Hope that helps.
The darker one is the first plant of the row and takes more sun! More sun = more photosyntehsis. That's the reason why is more green than the closer plant.
Let us know how they taste. I've always wanted to try some hydroponics but heard the flavor in the soil is better. I'm curious to see!!! Wow those tomatoes are absolutely loaded!
The more you process food the less nutritious it is. The growing process is part of the final product. People think they can somehow improve on nature with technology. They improved the quantity at the expense of quality. My backyard Romas are really good. Central Illinois. I get around 8 or 10 pounds per plant easily without even trying hard.
Thanks you two, I really appreciate your videos! I am running a line of dutch bucket tomatoes this year but your success with the gro bags is motivating!
I would do a blind taste test. Don’t let people know which is which. When sending out to customers make a list of which tomatoes you are sending where. Mark your box with an H or S so you know. Can’t wait to hear your results. 😁
I really enjoy your videos. Are you running the same EC in both greenhouses. Just thinking that since you feed with every water cycle on the hydro tomatoes you may be running a lower EC. I built a backyard greenhouse to grow NFT lettuce after watching your videos. Building my second greenhouse for tomatoes now. I love the info so please keep posting. I do hate the aphids I've been getting on my Kale, Bok Choy and Arugula, need to get some lady bugs.
Really fascinating to see the hydroponics vs the natural. After watching your vids all winter I set up 20 tomato and 10 cuke and a variety of other things. The past two weeks have been heartbreaking as I've battled pests, diseases, and fungus here in Indiana. I have lost one by one all my squash/zukes to squash borer. Manual pollination is another pain in the arse since we have nearly zero natural pollinators. I've seen many of your videos, but can't remember if you rely solely on natural pollination or not in the green houses?
Your tomatoes look fantastic and the production is unbelievable. I am growing multiple varieties in several outdoor raised beds. If I were to use your nutrient blend, how often should I apply it and in what quantity? Right now I have about 25 plants (single/double stems) in 2 beds (about 45 sf total)
this presentation made me think that I am living way way behind from the rest of the world, I do farming but the process I am used to is so primitive. Switching to new technologies translates to, me,performing a heist...well I don't have the guts to do so.....might as well follow you and have your ideas applied in my farm little by little, thanks for sharing!
i've done the hydroponics and the soil growing tomatoes here in oklahoma(usa). i'll tell you this,from my experience, the hydroponic tomatoes do NOT have the same flavor as the soil grown(flavor is not as good), but, i was also amazed at how fast and large the hydroponic tomatoes grow. i also did trials on cukes with the same results. my customers depend on the flavor from my produce ,so i dropped the hydroponic growing. you certainly do a lot more work than i do. you deserve a good pat on the back.
great job guys! youve defintely hit the nail on the head with your setup. i recommend changinb out your walmart timer with an inground solenoid and and relay with arduino controller. the reusable zip ties and string are spot on too. keep up the great work, and thanks for posting.
Awesome video. You should figure out ways to automate some of the watering, and fertilizer mixing. There are fertilizer dozers out there, and you can mix a concentrate for the dozers to inject. Also instead of having a manual water timer, get yourself an irrigation panel, with a valve/solenoid. Automate as much as possible, so you can at least go on weekend getaways during the summer
This video has been more beneficial than all others I’ve watched!! I’m wanting to set up a small scale hydroponic garden to grow tomatoes. My building is 8x12. What are the troughs/pots made out of? Did yall make them or buy them? Also the media in the pots, what is it?
Thank you for posting your tomatoes soil vs hydroponic. Might you be able to show how you setup your tomatoes in the hydroponic containers? Sorry, you briefly showed the bottom of the tomato plants. It looked like it was in a gutter type of system. Thank you in advance.
The reason you have a dark green tomato next to a light green. Seeds are like brothers and sisters. Pheno-type is the term. If you find that you like the dark green one, take cuttings to make a few mother plants to take cuttings from.
Wayne and Patti, What fantastic results at your farm! I just found your site about 2 weeks ago after discovering CB's channel at the same time. Have learned so much from both! This is my second year of outdoor hydroponics using perlite and am having a great time watching my tomatoes grow so well. Started following CB's numbers and have seen such a difference in the growth this year vs. last year here in western PA. What piqued my interest was your use of rock wool in the newest greenhouse. Had never seen that before so did research, Found a lot of good information but one question I have about it is it able to be used in an outdoor setting in lieu of the dutch bucket system? All the videos show it being used in a greenhouse setting. Keep the great videos coming! Thanks for all the great information! Stay healthy Ed
Hi guys, do you have or consider making a video about irrigation in detail? drip needle system in the rockwool medium vs drip hoses in raised beds? I would be mostly interested in the various timings for these systems. e.g. "we run drip for 15 minutes each hours" thanks a lot! also you can show mixing the nutrient. how do you fill the barrels, just calculate the ammount of nutrients to be in line with the amount of added water?
I think awesome! And the video noise was perfect, no worries there! Yall are the best! Thanks for taking the time to share ! Umm , i didnt know you were from Canadian! ?
Wow! That is impressive. New sub here and incredibly interested in watching your videos to learn more. We are looking to do something very similar on our little farm so I am certain we will find your channel quite insightful. Thank you for your content.
En realidad me gusta aprender, hidroponía para enseñar a los niños a los jóvenes y ver la maravilla que ellos pueden hacer en sus escuelas y en sus hogares y también lo quiero hacer en mi casa
The younger generations really need to learn how to be self sustainable! It's a great thing for them to learn. We have taught many young children how to grow. ❤️
Amazing,good job Mr Salam dari indo, tomato nya sangat lebat dan subur ini pertanian sangat canggih perawatan serta pupuk yg digunakan sangat bagus, granhose juga jadi tanaman nya lebih aman dari serangan hama
Fabulous and informative video guys. When you first started talking about the hydro toms being a month later I was waiting on smaller plants, how wrong was I? I've visited a commercial tomato farm here in Scotland who grow hydroponically and your setup reminds me of theirs. However they pop the rooted small plant in it's block into black and white plastic then staple it shut, white side out. The temperature controlled water then constantly flows across the roots. Fascinating and I wish I could replicate something similar to what you guys have but I have no power where I grow. What variety of tomatoes are you growing because I need those in my life.
Thanks for the well explained video. I am from India. Would you please confirm if there is any barrier sheet below the 6inch? raised bed or it is open to the soil beneath. Also confirm that 50 G nutrient fertigation was done once daily from transplant till end of final harvest?
Hello there wacthing here from 👉🇵🇭 nice green and that is great for future farm in here. we will try that kind of stragety keep it up and keep safe always
My Paul Robeson are colouring up beautiful burgundy red, in a few days I will be eating my first heritage toms, next year I'm growing a lot more heritage toms.
I really love how you compare them and see the difference. actually were planning here in the Philippines to have a production on Sweet Pepper, I don't know much about the hydroponic works. but hopefully your videos will help me :) All my materials will be bought from Alibaba even rock wool since it is not available here in the Philippines. Can you recommend what variety of Sweet pepper is best for Production? Thank you so much! I hope I can contact you personally so I can learn a lot from you guys! Good luck and have a bountiful production :)
Comparing the BRIX would be the most telling… The nutrition difference. They sure look good they sure look healthy and abundant but I am concerned mostly with BRIX.
Why soil grown tomatoes taste better than hydroponics. My guess is that the trace elements are lacking. For hydroponic growers who use masterblend formula, the trace elements is 4x lower than the recommended. For better results, adding amino acids would boost the flavor.
It'll be interesting to see how the taste test turns out. I can't help but think that the soil has a myriad of nutrients in the right combinations and availability to give taste and texture to the fruit/vegetable which is what we are really after, hence the reason we choose to grow our own. Could you use a compost mulch instead plastic ?
I'm so jealous. I drive a truck for a living and it's killing me. Literally. This would be so fun. Watching plants grow, pruning and selling produce would be so rewarding, it wouldn't be a "job". Congratulations. You have my dream job.
I grew a hydroponic watermelon, and it tasted incredible.
Hi, the thing you have to take into account is this, when you grow in hydroponics, the plants have what they want all the time, instead the plant having to look for what it needs in soil. They are so green, and like a jungle because you need to cut back on the nitrogen you are putting in. When i have been growing this way, i have find that the plants in water, well need 75% less fertilizer, but still grow 30% faster. Tomatoes taste so much sweeter, and everthing you grow can be done this way on your farm.
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Nope! Tomatoes from soil taste much better.
@@zizy6516 Why, have you grown in aquaponics?
@@GillsandGreens2024 no, i did soil and hydro only
@@zizy6516 So if soil grown tastes better to you, your putting in too many nutrients in the water, aquaponics is nature's way.
Holly Molly that is some huge mater plants! Nope no weeds for me.. LMBO.. Those maters in the soil are massive no doubt but when you went into the hydro house those plants are freaking awesome!!! So amazing how the hydro blows soil away hands down. The darker color maters mean they pulling more Nigerien then the one beside it. This is normal so no worries! I am so happy for you folks! This is proof that hydro is the way to grow. Thanks so much for allowing me to been a part of helping y'all get this up and running. Pat each other on the backs on a job very well done! Stay safe up there! We cooking down here and lost a lot of plants. Hope you have a great week my friends!
Nitrogen*
What variety of tomatoes are those?
Aloha guys from here in American Samoa, a US territory in the south Pacific. I came upon your videos around last quarter of last and i found them very informative and i watch them to get some ideas and information on lettuce production especially because i grow them in a vertigro system in a 24 x 48 greenhouse. i'm leaning more and more now to a trough system. Thanks a lot for sharing those videos. Stay safe. Mahalo.
Beautiful veggies!
*This is such a positive uplifting vibe for any rainy day really.
God must have blessed this man and his lovely widow for thier inspiring and educational videos, they are priceless.🌞
You guys are amazing family and hydroponic grow no doubt. I'm just starting my green house n Canadian compound in Algiers, watched 3 of your videos and feels like been doing this for years. Like the positive vibes coming from your side in each video of yours, easy way of explaining things, but most of all I like the comparison you run between hydroponic and soil grow. THANK YOU very much for doing these video, believe me you are making a big changes in our lives. Thanks again - Galal
Both 4 & 5 are stunning! One whole month's difference in age is really amazing. Since they grow & produce so quickly, you can extend your growing season I bet. Hope they taste as good as the inground tomatoes. All the plants in both houses look perfect - love the dark green tomatoes & the peppers. Thanks, Wayne for sharing the nutrient recipe - super kind of you! Have a great week guys.
share it with me
Once again thank you for sharing your detailed results. Your info has helped me improve my planting 100 fold. I just can't tell you how much I appreciate your knowledge and time.
Thank you for sharing your experience! Can't wait to see the progress you've made since posting this video!
Awesome that's how my garden looks its so amazing,
Thanks so much for the review. I really appreciate how you folks have taken your approach to a basic, simple level. it makes much more sense than trying to replicate what the hydro store tries to tell you which really pushes more product. Forgot to mention I run both soil (raised beds) outdoors and hydro greenhouse dutch buckets. I do both because I enjoy the outdoor garden but the hydro is a season extender for me. Next season I plan to use the slabs - I'm a much smaller operation but like the idea of slabs rather than dutch buckets - probably start with just one slab. Rather than NFT channels for strawberries, I think the slabs would be great. It's such a pain in the butt to be constantly chasing nutrient water, levels, temp, etc. I think the slabs would balance that out a bit. I already use MB for soil grown tomato fertilizer and love it but will likely adopt your barrel/pump approach and push nutrients through the drip tapes instead of just water. So thanks a bunch for the clear and simple review of your operation. I've learned a lot from you folks. Take care, God bless.
I hope you can keep this great farm producing. Its a great life you have.
I have sold the farm, but I am now growing on a smaller scale.
Must admit I preferred the Hydroponics setup to soil - much more control over pests and soil borne diseases. You are lucky with your water. My Hydroponics setup was bought second hand and because they were on a dodgy water supply they had to have a Water Deionizer. My farm we had a waterfall on a stream - where we collected it ensured water oxygenation as well.
You have to be excellent business people to keep such a big operation organized.... And, you seem like such nice people....thanks for the video..
takes good management
I always tell people not to worry, they'll ripen... I had a buddy that had over 100lbs on the outdoor vines and a snow storm was moving in with freezing temps for over a week. He was going to trash them because they were green. I said I'll take them and when they ripen I'll make you a bunch of sauce. I picked them all, put them in my south facing window and 2 weeks later I had less than one pound that rotted, and over 99 lbs of ripe tomatoes... Along with my toms (40+ lbs), onions, garlic, chilis, peppers, carrots, celery, and herbs from my garden, I made 120 gallons of sauce for me, my friends, and the food pantry...
That's fantastic!!
I want to see how you make a 120 gallons of sauce from that sure it wasn’t 12-gallons?
Another great video! The highlight of my day seeing your video updates and new grows! Thankyou for showing us your farm! What lovely people you are!
I absolutely agree! :)
I love the chemistry between you guys
Wow, I am super impressed with your crop, I am going to DIY my own hydroponic garden. of course, it will be on a much smaller scale since I live in a house with a small yard. I am so impressed with the tomato growth, I also want to plant some beefsteak, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, and zucchini. as well as sweet peppers, hydroponically maybe 1 or 2 of each plant. But I also really really want to do berries, I live in Ontario as well, and I was just curious, have you ever tried to grow strawberries, blueberries, or raspberries using the hydroponic method? I love to get your feedback on this.
If you cut a old tire rim in half with a grinder ( smaller rim ) and make a 3 or 4 deep by an inch wide to slide onto the barrel with the round side up your hose will not pinch. Used to do it for construction site dewatering wells.
Thanks I just exploring and I’ve learned a lot from your video.
Hydro is fun and productive.
Especially growing indoors
WOW!! It hasnt been too long since I watched you setup and plant those slabs.
Your plants look fantastic and very well loaded ,a great harvest is coming good luck we'll it's not luck but the hard work and effort you've put in 😊
Fantastic, you folks are inspiring....love to get more information of spacing of the plants and the aisles in between for tomato, cucumber and peppers.
Thanks for sharing the nutrient info, I dabble with hydroponics and I find that getting the correct solution is difficult. The plants look amazing!
we found it hard to figure out when we first started too, but now it all makes sense
It’s all about your pH. The proper range is 5.4-5.8 if you can keep it in that range with oxygenation of the water. You can set it on cruise control. Also, any nutrients, cut the recommended amount in half. The nutrients are more available to the plants therefore you don’t need to feed them as heavy. Supplement with silica as well
Thanks for the video. You asked why there is variation in your tomatoes. One possible reason is this…
If you grew your tomatoes from seed, and the seed that you used isn’t an F1 hybrid, you always get a certain amount of variation.
If you are growing F1 hybrids but the two parents weren’t fully inbred, you can also get some degree of variation. It can be difficult for breeder to fully inbreed certain parents as they get weaker and weaker with each generation of inbreeding and ideally they need to be inbred around 5-7 times to get perfectly uniform plants.
Hope that helps.
That's very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I thought one tomato was ripening faster than the other.
Hi from Fiji, love what you guys doing. Learned so much from following your videos.
Love the longer videos great for my lunch break.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us guys 😀
The darker one is the first plant of the row and takes more sun! More sun = more photosyntehsis. That's the reason why is more green than the closer plant.
Let us know how they taste. I've always wanted to try some hydroponics but heard the flavor in the soil is better. I'm curious to see!!! Wow those tomatoes are absolutely loaded!
I saw a video where somebody used compost tea in their hydro. Would that improve the flavor? I homegrow only to get flavor. And greens.
The more you process food the less nutritious it is. The growing process is part of the final product. People think they can somehow improve on nature with technology. They improved the quantity at the expense of quality.
My backyard Romas are really good. Central Illinois. I get around 8 or 10 pounds per plant easily without even trying hard.
you can try a woolly sock over your mic on your camera to reduce the wind noise
Thanks you two, I really appreciate your videos! I am running a line of dutch bucket tomatoes this year but your success with the gro bags is motivating!
so in a side by side blindfold select best tasting tomato and other veggies in soil and dwc
a taste test!! what do you do to test?
i liked the old guy here very honest and simple grt work both
Nice Work, im hoping to learn plant training this spring, I usually just let them grow free but its so much cleaner and efficient hanging the plants.
Awesome, if I can get mine looking like that when I get started I would be happy, looks great, healthy plants.
Love your videos and your sharing of real information. Wish I lived closer!
Thank you! no matter how far away you are, you can still ask questions!
I would do a blind taste test. Don’t let people know which is which. When sending out to customers make a list of which tomatoes you are sending where. Mark your box with an H or S so you know. Can’t wait to hear your results. 😁
Blue lab instruments are definitely really good! I use them myself for my 3x 8m long NFT hydro systems I have :)
Love this! I’ll have to check out more videos- maybe you’d have one on setting up the hydroponics?
I love it, i do hydroponic myself!
That's fantastic! Happy growing!❤️
Good luck. We are a manufacturer of heating, cooling and ventilation systems in Iran
I really enjoy your videos. Are you running the same EC in both greenhouses. Just thinking that since you feed with every water cycle on the hydro tomatoes you may be running a lower EC. I built a backyard greenhouse to grow NFT lettuce after watching your videos. Building my second greenhouse for tomatoes now. I love the info so please keep posting. I do hate the aphids I've been getting on my Kale, Bok Choy and Arugula, need to get some lady bugs.
Really fascinating to see the hydroponics vs the natural. After watching your vids all winter I set up 20 tomato and 10 cuke and a variety of other things. The past two weeks have been heartbreaking as I've battled pests, diseases, and fungus here in Indiana. I have lost one by one all my squash/zukes to squash borer. Manual pollination is another pain in the arse since we have nearly zero natural pollinators. I've seen many of your videos, but can't remember if you rely solely on natural pollination or not in the green houses?
Thanks for the in depth comparison!
Thank you for watching!
Your tomatoes look fantastic and the production is unbelievable. I am growing multiple varieties in several outdoor raised beds. If I were to use your nutrient blend, how often should I apply it and in what quantity? Right now I have about 25 plants (single/double stems) in 2 beds (about 45 sf total)
I don't know about them. Masterblend recommends 1 pint per plant every 2 weeks.
this presentation made me think that I am living way way behind from the rest of the world, I do farming but the process I am used to is so primitive. Switching to new technologies translates to, me,performing a heist...well I don't have the guts to do so.....might as well follow you and have your ideas applied in my farm little by little, thanks for sharing!
i've done the hydroponics and the soil growing tomatoes here in oklahoma(usa). i'll tell you this,from my experience, the hydroponic tomatoes do NOT have the same flavor as the soil grown(flavor is not as good), but, i was also amazed at how fast and large the hydroponic tomatoes grow. i also did trials on cukes with the same results. my customers depend on the flavor from my produce ,so i dropped the hydroponic growing. you certainly do a lot more work than i do. you deserve a good pat on the back.
in Italy we recycle the almost depleted hydroponic fertilizer for non-hydroponic tomatoes (soil).
SMART practice for complete use
In our greenhouses the one that is turning lighter is usually from sun scald,. Your plants look amazing! Thank you so much love your channel
Great videos.
Appreciate the tour.
Amazing job thank you for sharing
Great video!
I heard you use 2.0EC for the soil beds. I didn’t hear anything about the EC for the rockwool plants.
thanks so much. i love you all
How do you pollinate your tomatoes under your greenhouse enclosures?
Thank you I hope I can do a lot better this year
very nice!! I hope to try on my farm.
great job guys! youve defintely hit the nail on the head with your setup. i recommend changinb out your walmart timer with an inground solenoid and and relay with arduino controller. the reusable zip ties and string are spot on too. keep up the great work, and thanks for posting.
This is very beautiful. I want to branch over to hydroponics. Can you show exactly how you tie up the tomatoes please
Thank you.
I have videos on how we do this, if you want to look back on my videos.
Awesome video. You should figure out ways to automate some of the watering, and fertilizer mixing. There are fertilizer dozers out there, and you can mix a concentrate for the dozers to inject. Also instead of having a manual water timer, get yourself an irrigation panel, with a valve/solenoid. Automate as much as possible, so you can at least go on weekend getaways during the summer
Fantastic looking produce , well run stay safe you too 👍👏🇫🇷🇮🇪🐸
great job guys and girls that looks so good i am working on one in the philippines
This video has been more beneficial than all others I’ve watched!!
I’m wanting to set up a small scale hydroponic garden to grow tomatoes. My building is 8x12. What are the troughs/pots made out of? Did yall make them or buy them? Also the media in the pots, what is it?
Thank you for posting your tomatoes soil vs hydroponic. Might you be able to show how you setup your tomatoes in the hydroponic containers? Sorry, you briefly showed the bottom of the tomato plants. It looked like it was in a gutter type of system. Thank you in advance.
The reason you have a dark green tomato next to a light green. Seeds are like brothers and sisters. Pheno-type is the term. If you find that you like the dark green one, take cuttings to make a few mother plants to take cuttings from.
Wayne and Patti,
What fantastic results at your farm!
I just found your site about 2 weeks ago after discovering CB's channel at the same time. Have learned so much from both!
This is my second year of outdoor hydroponics using perlite and am having a great time watching my tomatoes grow so well.
Started following CB's numbers and have seen such a difference in the growth this year vs. last year here in western PA.
What piqued my interest was your use of rock wool in the newest greenhouse. Had never seen that before so did research,
Found a lot of good information but one question I have about it is it able to be used in an outdoor setting in lieu of the dutch bucket system?
All the videos show it being used in a greenhouse setting.
Keep the great videos coming! Thanks for all the great information!
Stay healthy
Ed
Great video guys as usual.
Hi guys, do you have or consider making a video about irrigation in detail? drip needle system in the rockwool medium vs drip hoses in raised beds? I would be mostly interested in the various timings for these systems. e.g. "we run drip for 15 minutes each hours" thanks a lot! also you can show mixing the nutrient. how do you fill the barrels, just calculate the ammount of nutrients to be in line with the amount of added water?
Hey!
Awesome video ideas! Thanks so much!
Awesome job. I hope to setup a tomato and pepper greenhouse soon using hydroponics.
All the best!
I think awesome! And the video noise was perfect, no worries there! Yall are the best! Thanks for taking the time to share ! Umm , i didnt know you were from Canadian! ?
Love your Vids from Aus. 😊
Great video, so educative.
Thank you ❤️
Thank you .the lettuce, peppers and tomatoes are perfect 👍👍👍
Great info, love keeping it simple
Coming to check again, very amaze of this plants that you have. Thank you and God bless
Looking very nice! One quick question;- That's drain to waste, yes? Not recirculating?
Thank you ❤️
Yes, drain to waste.
The plants are so healthy and beautiful!
Wow! That is impressive. New sub here and incredibly interested in watching your videos to learn more. We are looking to do something very similar on our little farm so I am certain we will find your channel quite insightful. Thank you for your content.
En realidad me gusta aprender, hidroponía para enseñar a los niños a los jóvenes y ver la maravilla que ellos pueden hacer en sus escuelas y en sus hogares y también lo quiero hacer en mi casa
The younger generations really need to learn how to be self sustainable!
It's a great thing for them to learn.
We have taught many young children how to grow. ❤️
Amazing,good job Mr
Salam dari indo, tomato nya sangat lebat dan subur ini pertanian sangat canggih perawatan serta pupuk yg digunakan sangat bagus, granhose juga jadi tanaman nya lebih aman dari serangan hama
This is amazing!!
I am impressed and inspired. From Zimbabwe would love to know the spacing there
Love your videos what a good job...CB put you right 😄👍
Thank you for video about hydroponic
You are so lucky to get thunderstorms.
Fabulous and informative video guys. When you first started talking about the hydro toms being a month later I was waiting on smaller plants, how wrong was I? I've visited a commercial tomato farm here in Scotland who grow hydroponically and your setup reminds me of theirs. However they pop the rooted small plant in it's block into black and white plastic then staple it shut, white side out. The temperature controlled water then constantly flows across the roots. Fascinating and I wish I could replicate something similar to what you guys have but I have no power where I grow.
What variety of tomatoes are you growing because I need those in my life.
wow.. just wow
Mam good work for helping for small farmer innovation in our farming thank you mam for your great work provide
Thanks for the well explained video.
I am from India. Would you please confirm if there is any barrier sheet below the 6inch? raised bed or it is open to the soil beneath.
Also confirm that 50 G nutrient fertigation was done once daily from transplant till end of final harvest?
Hello there wacthing here from 👉🇵🇭 nice green and that is great for future farm in here. we will try that kind of stragety
keep it up and keep safe always
Hello friend
Are you a grower?
My Paul Robeson are colouring up beautiful burgundy red, in a few days I will be eating my first heritage toms, next year I'm growing a lot more heritage toms.
I really love how you compare them and see the difference. actually were planning here in the Philippines to have a production on Sweet Pepper, I don't know much about the hydroponic works. but hopefully your videos will help me :)
All my materials will be bought from Alibaba even rock wool since it is not available here in the Philippines.
Can you recommend what variety of Sweet pepper is best for Production? Thank you so much! I hope I can contact you personally so I can learn a lot from you guys! Good luck and have a bountiful production :)
Thanks for this imformative video im learning.
Awe, rip sir I remember you and your beautiful lady. Rock on mrs. 🙏
7:30 you add all that stuff every day? That’s insane! Try compost or worm casting tea. It’s gonna give you the same or better results
Thanks for showing your methods of growing love from india
Comparing the BRIX would be the most telling… The nutrition difference. They sure look good they sure look healthy and abundant but I am concerned mostly with BRIX.
Why soil grown tomatoes taste better than hydroponics. My guess is that the trace elements are lacking. For hydroponic growers who use masterblend formula, the trace elements is 4x lower than the recommended. For better results, adding amino acids would boost the flavor.
It'll be interesting to see how the taste test turns out. I can't help but think that the soil has a myriad of nutrients in the right combinations and availability to give taste and texture to the fruit/vegetable which is what we are really after, hence the reason we choose to grow our own. Could you use a compost mulch instead plastic ?