Fast Easy HydroSock Passive Wick Hydroponics Video 8 Part 4 Growing Grape Tomatoes Conclusion

Posted on 27. Jan, 2012 by admin in Growing Videos

This is part 4 – and the conclusion – of video number 8. This series documented my efforts in growing Ferry Morse Jelly Bean Hybrid grape-size tomatoes using the HydroSock Passive Wick Hydroponic System. The catch is that I am growing them out -of – season in my easy – to – build, inexpensive pvc pipe greenhouse, with wildly flunctuating temperatures during the growing period. Tomatoes are showing but I am experiencing a lot of blossom drop due to the temperature swings. I also started experimenting with FOLIAR FEEDING. I feel that foliar feeding, in conjuction with passive wick hydroponics, can equal or better any other method of growing plants. I will continue to research foliar feeding and create videos about it from time to time. Thanks for your continued interest! – plain2growJim
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4 Responses to “Fast Easy HydroSock Passive Wick Hydroponics Video 8 Part 4 Growing Grape Tomatoes Conclusion”

  1. plain2growJim

    27. Jan, 2012

    Do a search on hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and you’ll find hundreds of articles, research and scientific data concerning its production in, and uses of, with growing plants. H2O2 is a natural molecule occurring in nearly all living things. It is vitally important in the oxidative respiration cycle. Hydrogen peroxide decomposes (disproportionates) exothermically into water and oxygen gas spontaneously:
    2 H2O2 → 2 H2O + O2. Nute solution and leaves get instant oxygen and water! View earlier vids.

  2. MarshmallowVogt

    27. Jan, 2012

    Peroxide water on the leaves?

  3. plain2growJim

    27. Jan, 2012

    Yup, they are leggy, and it’s been a problem with the HydroSock System. In the summer the plants settled down and got thick because there was enough sunlight and warmth, but with my anemic indoor starter lights and a makeshift propagation bed, they started out thin to begin with. These tomatoes are battling extreme temperature flunctuations which doesn’t help things. A lot of energy is going into thickening and growing sideways so less is going into blossom and fruit production.

  4. MarshmallowVogt

    27. Jan, 2012

    Those plants look super “leggy” but I think it makes the look cool as long as the branches don’t snap

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