Hydroponic Gardening DIY

I eventually cut back my tomato's 3 times to keep them from basically filling up my whole greenhouse. Typically the leaves are the first parts that grow of the stem. The second shoots between the leaf and stem is called the sucker. That grows a new offshoot with its own leaves and more suckers. You can pull them off wherever you don't want the plant growing further. BTW you can grow the suckers as cuttings.
 
SirFooK'nG said:
I eventually cut back my tomato's 3 times to keep them from basically filling up my whole greenhouse. Typically the leaves are the first parts that grow of the stem. The second shoots between the leaf and stem is called the sucker. That grows a new offshoot with its own leaves and more suckers. You can pull them off wherever you don't want the plant growing further. BTW you can grow the suckers as cuttings.
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Think I should clone some suckers. Well some more spam posts :

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Jalapeño chilly starting to produce some flowers.

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Pak Choi growing like a boss. That said I tried growing some butter lettuce but it never really grows all that well. Will have to try some more varieties.
 
looking fine indeed.My garden is in a bit of a lull, but i will sort it out this December.

Zen, check this link out about rooting clones while still growing on the mother plant, im going to try this soon, but will be using heavy duty foil and moist coco peat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gxRKRGslYs
 
Batista said:
looking fine indeed.My garden is in a bit of a lull, but i will sort it out this December.

Zen, check this link out about rooting clones while still growing on the mother plant, im going to try this soon, but will be using heavy duty foil and moist coco peat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gxRKRGslYs
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Thanks really love his videos which is where I got a lot of my ideas in the first place. Definitely going to try this out!
 
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Some early Jalapeño action :D
 

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Some updated pics.

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Had to add some support for the basil as the wind just blows it all over the place. Just used some simple plastic name tags which are working great!
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Just a bit of an update here. The plastic tags work nicely for support when the plants are small but fail when they get bigger. Ended up grabbing some polypipe and splitting the bottom to make "support". This is working great so far as the pipe is much stronger and stiffer and can properly support the plant. Just a FYI. :)
 

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Hi everyone, I had some sweet potatoes in my kitchen that sprouted so I put them into bottles of water, using toothpicks stuck in the side to hold them up so that just the bottom of the sweet potato is in the water and they grew roots very quickly - like in a few hours! I've been informed that I'm now growing them hydroponically! Anyone here grown sweet potatoes this way. I know nothing about hydroponics or sweet potatoes but if anyone can advise me on whether I need to add nutrients of some sort to the water and how do I actually grow new sweet potatoes from the ones I've got?
 
Hi demiurge. I tried to have a look but I couldn't find a terrible amount of info on growing them hydroponically. If you Google hydroponically grown yams/potatoes then you will see some information on the subject. The ones I saw the people were using aeroponic systems which is basically spraying a mist of water with nutrients onto the roots.

On another note now that my tomatoes are really growing I have started encountering a bit of a problem. The tomatoes use up the water so quickly that the ppm of the dissolved nutrient rockets up and the pH drops. I only noticed because some of my lower leaves started wilting and dying. So now it looks like I will have to monitor the pH and water levels together with the ppm every few days to keep it within acceptable levels.

And lastly I tried to contact the guys with the square tubing (marley) go to pricing but they didn't respond. Anyone else had any luck?
 
I called Marley DBN and they didn't know about it...after I forwarded the link to the rep, he replied by saying he will call me in the new year.
 
Basil959 said:
I called Marley DBN and they didn't know about it...after I forwarded the link to the rep, he replied by saying he will call me in the new year.
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Ya don't see that happening. Guess we'll have to Irritate them in Jan to see what the story is.
 
@Zenbaas, do you need a PPM and PH meter, I'm almost ready to start my system but I don't have any meters. I've watched most of MHP gardener's videos and he recons he just changes his water/nutrient mix every two weeks... well that was my plan:confused:

Where did you get yours i see they are on DX for pretty cheap?
 
Basil959 said:
@Zenbaas, do you need a PPM and PH meter, I'm almost ready to start my system but I don't have any meters. I've watched most of MHP gardener's videos and he recons he just changes his water/nutrient mix every two weeks... well that was my plan:confused:

Where did you get yours i see they are on DX for pretty cheap?
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You will get a lot of varying views on this. I think you can get away without them for the most part just fine. I would have battled with the tomatoes in this latest instance without them though. Also check out Andy @ green thumb hydroponics for the meters as well.
 
Just a PIC of the tomatoes currently.
 

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maumau said:
Zen, how did you cut back your tomatoes? Did you ever cut the top?
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Hey I haven't really trimmed them at all hey. They can go up by about another meter at least and then I can "feed" them laterally.
 
Reminds me of jack and the beanstalk. There's no more room for mine to grow and it hasn't been warm enough for the tomatoes to ripen. Grrr
 
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