Growing Tomatoes in Hydroponic During Winter

Timeline
00:16 - Starting Seeds
01:32 - One Gallon Tomato Clone
01:51 - 17 Days Old Seedlings Ready To Be Transplanted
02:15 - Drilling Hole To Fit Netcup
03:03 - Mixing Nutrients
04:00 - Adding Plant to Hydroponic System
04:53 - 28 Days Update
06:16 - 28 Days Timelapse
06:38 - 33 Days Update
07:15 - 42 Days Update
09:07 - 49 Days Update
09:48 - Trimming Tomato
12:32 - Summary

Mini Kratky Hydroponic Tomato:

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Hydroponics
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Deep Water Culture
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[mamajan]

I have been growing tomatoes for almost 70 years. I have tried every method and they seem to work. One year I gave my daughter some suckers. She didn't have a garden so she put them along her fence among all the grass. She wound up having a better grow than me! Once I saw a beautiful, fruit filled plant growing in a crack in a concrete parking lot! It looked awesome! What can I say?

[montanateri]

You are first person I've seen actually knows how to prune a tomato plant. Leaving too many leaves just directs energy into the leaves, gentle pruning of extra leaves give more energy to the fruit. Kudos!
But a note on that for others reading this, pruning may be bad if your growing a tomato outside and you have very hot days-- the leaves shade the tomatoes so pruning for outside plants would depend on your weather.
Others have told me to cut all the suckers off, which makes no sense to me. I did that on a plant, and then it was suddenly over 7 feet tall and only one stalk! Leaving the suckers and letting them flower should give a broader plant and more fruit. I will do as you are doing in this video and choose suckers to leave.
I love this video!

[blasermann]

This is my first year growing hydroponicly. Thanks for all your videos. Also thanks for the pruning advice for tomatoes and peppers. I'm obsessed now with pruning.

[driaw]

You are so thorough with your videos. You are amazing!!! Thank you

[philipsteele]

I Love all Tomatoes . I never do to good growing them outside though. Good job Khang.

[laurac]

Been listening ing while I work on the kitchen bottom leaf prune sunk in

[bitnertinkers]

I'm in Texas also! So cold ot got down to -3 here!

[njanderson]

I had 2 little aerogarden tomato plants producing more tomatoes than I could eat for 300 days. Usually I clone new plants, but these got stems too thick for the aerogarden and the plants died. I was giving tomatoes to the neighbors. it was fun.

[treasuretreereynolds]

Yes, I leave some suckers as well. I’ve never grown hydroponically but I may just try it after watching so many of your vids. Nice 👍🏻🌱👍🏻

[thomasjudy]

I’ve hacked of the main stems at like 3ft or more and just thrown them in a bubbler bucked and had roots the next day. That’s how easy tomatoes are.

[skylarkenwood]

What is polenating the plant indoors? No need or bugs inside. Please explain. When do yo put this plant outside?

[tidelybumsquish]

Nice video. I have a spring near by thats 30 ppm. Would you recommend using that water . My well water is 115 ppm.

[wranther]

That is a really healthy plant you have produced in a very short time Khang! Is there a taste comparison video in the future as your outdoor plants also come into fruit? Happy Gardening! -Bob...

[miketond]

what are you growing beside tomato, looks good

[johnnygirl]

Thank you for these videos on hydroponics and your experiments! It makes it approachable for those of us that are new to hydroponics or gardening or both! Do you sell the seed for your Khang Starr tomato? I'd love to try it!

[datgalu]

Okay, may have to tackle growing tomatoes inside in hydro next. I don't think I'd go with indeterminate as that's too big so I'll have to find a tiny variety. Thanks for the details on trimming and such.

[TheGrowZone]

Nice vid! Great to see the toms doing well.

[judykaspar]

I'm new to all this and am wondering if the plants have to show roots at the bottom of the rockwool before I can put them in a kratky continer or something?
I have a little tomato plant that is about 2 inches tall but no roots show yet.

[cheriglaser]

I've been growing tomatoes with Kratky method. Curious, why did you choose DWC for this one???

[christiankelley]

Great tips! Lots of good reasons to prune👍