Home Grown Hydroponics Update
Experiments March 27th, 2008
After quite a long time of growing and me having really no clue what I was doing the tomato plants finally flowered. The flowers came and went with no tomatoes so I was a little disappointed at first. BUT! After a couple of weeks of flowers a little tiny tomato appeared. The plants are around 3 or so feet tall and growing up a string like a vine so I had expected to get some kind of crop from them but all I got was one tiny marble sized cherry tomato. The tomato grew and ripened but I didn’t eat it - my dog got to it first. Bruno hadn’t bothered the plants the entire time they were growing but for some reason felt the need to eat the one tiny tomato that managed to grow. So thanks to Bruno there are no pictures of the meager yield from my first hydroponic experiment.
Some other good news though is that the jalapeño pepper plants that all died have come back to life. I went in to check on the plants one day and the apparently dead plants had tiny leaves growing out of them so it seems they were just sleeping. I am going to keep track of their grown and see if this little experiment can’t get me a tiny jalapeño pepper too.
More to come (with pics) once I have something else to report.
Next time i’ll buy actual hydroponic nutrients and do it the “right” way but this was a good learning experience and a fun experiment.
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