How to Improve Your Tomato Growing with These 6 Steps \\ Hydroponic Greenhouse Tomato Growing
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- Improve the way you grow indeterminate tomato plants imediatly with these six steps. In this video I explain the six weekly task that must be done for growing and maintaining greenhouse tomatoes. Although ours are grown using the hydroponic method, most of these steps can be applied to soil grown and garden grown tomatoes as well.
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I love the lean and lower technique. You probably already know this, but rather than start new plants from seed, the suckers could be plopped into soil/hydroponic system, and they will root and fruit very quickly. Excellent video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! Yes, I know about suckers rooting in but we have no need for it once the plants have been established in their bato buckets. We use determinate plants outdoors so don't need them out there either, but for a home gardener that would be a great way to grow some free plants!
Thanks for sharing Jason! Really neat seeing the operation and though we just have a few raised bed gardens with tomatoes we definitely learned a few things we can do better.
No problem, glad it was helpful and interesting, thanks AJ!
Awesome! Thank you.
Love this video. I have now started planting about 30 roots in the soil. Planning to go hydroponics soon !!!!
Love watching your farming videos!
Thanks Nick, I appreciate it!
I tried doing this technique as a one man operation (1 acre). It was too much. I had to switch to determinate tomatoes and grow them in a field using the Florida Weave technique. If you have plenty of employees this technique is a money maker. Impressive set up. Hydroponics is ideal for tomatoes.
I grow strawberries in my old tomato tunnel now. Testing out Ruby June this year. Lookin good so far.
Thanks! That is all we use in the field, determinate and the Florida weave, but obviously much more profitable in the greenhouse to grow inderterminates with a string trellis from above
Great explanation and was very easy to follow. Can't wait until my greenhouse is up and running. Thanks for sharing your insights. Inspiring.
You’re welcome glad you found it helpful, hope you have a great growing season!
Great job. Your adeptness shines through in your videos. I can’t wait to adopt these practices when I start tomato farming. Currently doing only bell peppers in greenhouses.
Best of luck!
I just started my Garden for One as I call it back in May. I haven't done gardening in decades. I love it! I really like the advice on the tomatoes and would love to see more videos like this. thanks
Since filming and editing takes a lot of time I find myself only doing it for the things i really enjoy and that is hiking, RVing and kayaking, farming always gets fourth place, sorry.
Neat to see how you operate! Can't wait to get some of those fresh tomatoes!
Thanks April, just about time for a fried green tomato!
@@jasonwish- delicious!!
That's pretty amazing man. Thanks for the insight.
Absolutely! I hope to share more farming videos regularly this summer.
Thanks
Glad to see more farming vids!!! Love them.
Glad you like them Gavin! I will do my best to put more of them out this summer
@@jasonwish- just put up a 20x90 greenhouse. Next one will by hydroponic!
Nice video, I have apparently been messing up my tomato plants at home by not keeping them trimmed down properly. Great advice. Maybe this year I can get out that way and some Wishwell Farms tomatoes!
Thanks Ed! Hope your crop turns out some great tomatoes this season! We are open mid July to mid Oct...give me a shout if can ever swing by.
Wow, how cool. Thanks for sharing
Sure thing, glad you enjoyed it!
Good stuff buddy! Great video.
Thanks Fred, glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video. Much more thorough than other vids ive been watching. Covered a few mistakes i was gonna make :)
Glad it helped!
@@jasonwish- Muchly appreciated. I'm an organic farmer from Australia, so i'll adapt a few of your lessons for our setup. I'd love to try hydroponics one day, I completely agree with your rationality. I'll see how i go growing in soil for now :)
Thanks again.
Big ups from down under!
Thank you for your great educational video of Tomato farming!
Which is more productive, hydroponic or soil?
Hydroponic by far! It’s an exact science and nutrients can never be tied up by imbalances in the soil, which will inevitably happen
Wow very nice 👍🙂
Very cool. I just started planting in my high tunnel a couple weeks ago getting ready for planting the end of May up in Michigan.
Thanks James, I hope you have a great growing season! It sure is starting off a little cold and wet out here.
@@jasonwish- yes it’s been an unpleasant spring we got the great pleasure of snow for most of the day today. I hope you have a great growing season also.
Thanks. God blessed
Thank you
Good job ,I would love to learn more on how u do the bucket connection and fertilization.
Thanks! I will try to address this in more detail when we fire things back up this February.
Very helpful tips. Great video. More please!
I’ll try to do better at putting regular farming videos out this summer, glad you enjoyed it!
@@jasonwish- I’ve only been a subscriber to your channel for about a yr so I had no idea you did farming type videos until this one came up in my feed. Now I see the playlist!
Yes! I was hoping you'd start showing some of those impressive farming skills. Any chance you'll be making more? Pruining the clusters down is so simple but will have such a large impact, I gotta implement this into my garden, I'm assuming similar practice on peppers and egg plant also?
Yes if time allows I hope to make regular farming videos throughout the summer, glad you like them. Pruning of peppers and eggplants are not necessary and not recommended, from my experience they will continue to produce large fruit regardless.
@@jasonwish- Thanks brother I look forward to more of your content, hope to see you out at a market or on the water this year. Good luck this season
Big like. I love these garden videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Do you grow sweet corn ?
Yes, it’s our main crop, we grow about 30 acres. Been growing it for about 35 years. Here are my two sweet corn videos:
ruclips.net/video/NCNbK_IYkB8/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/e7YdacSMgkI/видео.html
Very good video. I'm just beginning growing. Just sold vegetable garden plants last year. I've watched hundreds of videos and you shared things I haven't seen before. J hooks I like. Was thinking of just using twine. Pinching of clusters to 4 and branches to 12. I have not seen those techniques in any other RUclips videos. Going to trial probably 30 cultivars of tomatoes this season. See what produces well and sells well. Celebrity Plus, Cherokee Purple, & Dwarf Rosella Purple are just a few. What cultivars are you growing? If I may ask. Again Great video. 😊
Hey Garret, thanks, glad it was helpful. The techniques I shared in this video are done by all commercial hydroponic growers around the world and are taught by any hydroponic tomato seminars/classes, and if they are done, the yeilds and quality and health of the plants will be affected tremendously. I'm amazed that no one else is sharing this info on youtube. I grow specific greenhouse cultivars from DeRuiter seeds which can only be purchased from seed retailers. If you grow non greenhouse type tomatoes you may experience more disease issues, cracking and spliting and just overall lower yeilds. For greenhouse growing, my experience with trialing determinate cultivars is not good, we only plant indeterminates for long extended harvest window. Hope this helps.
I am not at all a gardener in any way shape or form... but these videos always fascinate me. I was going to "watch" this while I worked... and ending up focused the whole time! i think tips and tricks are interesting no matter the subject matter... especially on a topic one is not well versed in! Great informative video!
Glad you enjoy them Mark! I’m hoping to start posting a lot more farm content the spring and summer because most of them seem to do pretty well for me. Looking forward to seeing you your next video with the ultralight award!
@@jasonwish- Yes i was going to send an official invite to all those who took part. I'm doing a premier at 8pm on April 30th so hopefully you won't be out on trail!! I loved your clip!! It was hilarious 😂
Best video for new people
Thanks man
Thank you, hopefully it will be helpful for other new growers trying to improve
❤ waiting for the coming season videos
@@arslanakhter3365 please check out our farm channel where all the farming videos will now be found! www.youtube.com/@wishwellfarms/videos
Прекрасно! Спасибо за видео! Очень информативно!
рада, что было полезно! Glad it was helpful!
I love all ur videos and how u take ur time in explanation.Pls tell me your nutrients composition and how you mix it. Thanks.
I have videos addressing this already on my other farm channel: www.youtube.com/@wishwellfarms/videos
Thank you, great video. What nutrients are you using? and what is the final NPK of the resevoir.
great information !! Love your videos, can I ask where you found the triple position j-hook?
Thanks! I get most of my supplies at AMA horticulture in Ontario, here is the link: www.amahort.com. And I also get some supplies from Crop King in Ohio
@@jasonwish- Thanks!
Thanks i am doing a lower, lean, and 12 leave prune followimg your methods in wicking buckets here in austin. I'll add row cover as shade cloth on top of my trellis once we get into our 5th season "hot". Do you cool your hydroponic reservoir?
We used to put a 35% white shade cloth over our Greenhouse tomatoes during the summer but we haven’t done it for the past 12 to 15 years and for the most part they do OK but the heat is definitely hard on them during July and August, but by mid August were harvesting out of the field and the greenhouse tomatoes become afterthought. we do not have any need to cool our reservoir, our water stays in the mid 70s even throughout the summer because it’s constantly getting refreshed with 55° well water. Please check out our Farm channel for much more detail on our greenhouse farming operation. youtube.com/@wishwellfarms?si=Che7rwOsfB0CE0mu
Very informative video. I see your plant only have one main stem my seed packet said i can have up to three. Should i just have one main stem?
For my operation, if I did more than one main stem the plants would get far too crowded and the production quantity and tomato size would suffer greatly. In theory it might sound great but in reality, not a good idea unless your buckets are placed much further apart...I can't even imagine trying to string up and maintain three plants from each stem, sounds like an absolute nightmare.
Dear @Jason Wish, I'm new at this and I want to ask you couple questions if you don't mind : 1- if I only have 200cm of height and the tomato has grown more than that what is the best thing to do here ? 2- what is the time the tomato can be harvest for? 6 month after the first harvest or can they live for more ?
Please see our farming channel which will show so much more detail of our tomato operation. I put out two videos a week currently. youtube.com/@wishwellfarms?si=k53qdAx3kwKAR5jM
1) 200 cm is about 6 1/2 feet so that will be only enough height for maybe two months if you’re lucky. When ours reach the 7 1/2 foot trellis, we lower the string that they are attached to from the spool and lean them all in the same direction, it’s called the lower and lean method, maybe you can do something similar.
2) indeterminate tomato plants can be harvested for longer than a year as long as they have supplemental lighting and heating and our managed properly during the short winter days. Typically most hydroponic growers only harvest for about 10 months so they have time to clean the old Crop out and get ready for the new Crop.
Great video. Could you please tell where to buy the trellis?
Thanks! The trellis is all built by me, it’s just 4 x 4 post with cable above it. The Tomatoes string hooks can be bought from most greenhouse or hydroponic suppliers.
great video. I'm looking into growing cherry tomato indeterminate varieties in a hydroponic green house. how far apart should these plants be ?
We grow our grape tomatoes in coconut coir bags and they are spaced 1 foot between plants. For the beafstead tomatoes in the bato buckets there are two plants every 18 inches. In the field we give them a little more space at 2.5 feet
@@jasonwish- thanks for the information. I was concerned that the 12 inches recommended by my local hydroponics dealer was too close and may affect the plant production levels. After watching your video and realising your experience with this hydroponic system I now have more confidence placing plants 12 inches apart in the grow bags
Your backpacking videos are great but I like your farming videos more.
I’m so glad you enjoy them Gary! For some reason they’re just not as fun to make for me as backpacking videos but I will do my best to put more out this summer!
Jason, Just because you grow your tomatoes hydroponically doesn't mean tap water. You source your water from the farm's well, and that water contains the trace elements that provides the unique minerals for your tomato plants to give your tomatoes flavor from your farm. Viola!
most serious hydro setups start with r.o. water so 0ppm tds
Our source water, which does come our well, has very little in it so there is a very precise recipe we have to follow in order to give the plants exactly what they need for optimal growing. And like Jacob said, in a perfect world we would have RO water but I have decided not to invest in that at this time. But you are also right Bernie, there definitely is some trace elements in our well water that does slightly less than the amount of fertilizer that we have to add. Now, when it comes to our field crops, our soils seem to have exactly what melons need for amazing sweetness and flavor!
Great Video. I am a home grower and have a couple of questions - do you keep one stem for both determinate and inderterminate varieties? Also do you recommend removing suckers in the indeterminate tomatoes as well?
Never prune suckers from determinate tomatoes. They are made to branch out and bush out, however, you can remove 2 to 4 branches from the very bottom of the plant to help put more energy into the upper part of the plant and the tomatoes.
In the greenhouses, all we plant are indeterminants, and they must be sucker pruned to one stem or you will have a complete nightmare of a mess and lots of little small worthless tomatoes.
Last year we moved our Farm content to our new channel called Wishwell Farms Produce, please check it out if interested in following our operation, we currently post about two videos per week. Thanks
www.youtube.com/@wishwellfarms/videos
@@jasonwish- Thank you so much, what about beef steak tomatoes, do they need pruning?
@@user-uq3uo8rl5r the beefsteak cultivar is an indeterminate variety, so yes. But some people call red, round tomatoes in general "beefsteaks" and that can be any number of tomato varieties and can often be a determinate.
@@jasonwish- ❤ thank you. Much appreciate..
What variety is your greenhouse tomatoes, and who do you remind to buy hydroponic growing systems from? Great video.
We grow Big Dena, Terero, and Foronti. My favorite variety was Geronimo but it was discontinued. Our irrigation system, and computer is a Crop King system from Ohio but not the greenhouses. Thanks Chad!
where do you buy those varieties of tomatoes@@jasonwish-
Where do you buy SEEDS of those varieties?
@@davidbishop2969 any commercial hydroponic supplier, for lettuce, tomatoes, etc, not marijuana, should carry these or be able to get them. They will often be shipped directly from the source rather than the hydroponic supplier, if not in stock, as the sales of hydroponic tomato seeds can only be purchased through a wholesaler. I get mine from Crop King in Ohio. They are not cheap, almost 90 cents per seed. Also, my favorite variety, Geronimo is available again this year, but Big Dena, it was a crop failure this year so not available.
hi does all of this apply to outdoor tomatoes as well?
Yes, these would also apply to outdoor tomatoes as well.
which growth media are you using?
Perlite in the bato buckets and rockwool blocks.
I found by your backpacking videos but this really interesting. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
Are your drippers running 24 / 7 or are they on a timer cycle...
those are 1/2 gal per hour pressure compensated drippers that only feed the solution when pump is running. Generally it runs about every 30-40 min for about 2-3 min depending on sun, and stage of growth the plants are in. Its all controlled by a central computer system.
Is that the correct way to remove the suckers?
Yes, they have a natural breaking point called an abscission layer and the "wound" will naturally heal itself properly. If suckers are cut with scissors or a knife there is more risk of disease entering at that point. great question
I see some grow w a 2 stem system to produce more tomatoes. Why not you. Thanks.
The way our operation is set up I think that the plants, foliage and fruit would just be too dense...I feel they need the 16" that they have. I've never really researched 2 stem so don't know anything about it.
how you do pollination?
Bumblebees early in the season then the wind does it naturally when it's hot out and the sides are rolled up.
Where did you get the nifty box you are wearing?
I don't know what you are reffering too??
@@jasonwish- The picking box around your waist. The one Johnnies sells are two big and bulky
@@jtimwest those are blueberry picking baskets from Indiana Plant and Berry. www.indianaberry.com/products/details/204/EC_Pick_Blueberry_Picker_Basket
Dear brother, how are the first steps to prepare the agricultural greenhouse from soil and natural organic fertilizer? I want a method before planting because we do not have the capabilities of hydroponics
There are much better resources out there than what I can provide, I don't have much experience growing tomatoes in the soil in greenhouses.
Hi dear, How many times a week can I use AB fertilizer for tomatoes?
I dont' know what you mean by AB fertilizers?
Seems like AB is a common solution for hydroponic, stock A (macro component) and stock B (micro component). Correct me if I am wrong
@@skipandskip there are macros in both tanks. Please check out our farm channel for far more hydroponic growing techniques. The detailed fertilizer mixing video will be coming out this Tuesday. www.youtube.com/@wishwellfarms/videos
Where do I get the seeds.
Most Hydroponic Greenhouse seed supply companies should carry them, we get ours from Crop King in Ohio.
Would you like to share the nutrient application method for your tomatoes?
All of this and much more can be found on our farm channel. This channel no longer includes farming. www.youtube.com/@wishwellfarms/videos
@@jasonwish- many thanks. Me Dewi from Indonesia. I was a trainee, sponsorship by The Ohio States University. Recently I own small farm business in growing tomatoes and chilli
Hydroponically grown may be better tasting -- as they get the exact nutrients they need. Soil grown is always fighting more insects, fungi, mold, and nutrients get sucked out of the soil and you don't know until the plants start having a problem that tells you that you are missing nutrients. And watering.... is always exact, as they will absorb just what they need.
But I'm small... I'm growing cherry tomatoes inside my apartment with a Mars Hydro 1000 grow light,. there are 12 plants. My grandkids love coming over to snack and take home extras~! I will be doing the leaning technic around a wire shelving unit. I also have a container of 10 sugar snap pea plants, love snap peas!
sounds really cool! Hope you are having a successful growing season!
Thank you for your great educational video of Tomato farming!
Which is more productive, hydroponic or soil?
Hydroponic by far! It’s an exact science, and there’s nothing to tie up the nutrients with imbalances in the soil, which inevitably will happen