Just a hint. Tomatoes pollinate themselves. You don't need to use brush. Wind from a fan will help. What I do is when flowers are open just tap the vine branch to bounce a little and pollen will drop onto flower part and pollinate I get lots of tomatoes and that's all I do. Hope you don't mind me saying this.
Great vid ! One suggestion I might make is to not use the aerogarden food. It does not have enough of each nutrient component. I use General Hydroponics Maxigro food! Also you might want to look into a pH meter! As long as you keep it btw 5.5-6.5 pH, you should be good! If you find your pH too high or low then just use a pH up or down solution. I also add a calcium magnesium supplement (again I use the general hydroponics brand- CalMag). To prevent root rot I use southern AG bacillus amyloliquefaciens which is a fraction of the price of hydroguard and is more concentrated.
My tomatoes in the aerogarden were looking miserable so I came here and saw your plants were very similar and how you added more nutrients, I'm going to try increasing the nutrients as well, thanks!
Excellent video! I have read that the "Golden Harvest" tomato is actually "Yellow Canary" from the Little Birdy Series. I've grown a lot of micros outdoors, and the best tasting I've found is Aztek. It is also a yellow/gold tomato. So I want to try it in my Aero setup.
Excellent video! Thank you! I'm growing the same ones and I have the same exact bottle of CalMag. My mighty mini had some blossom end rot on a few tomatoes but after one dose of the calmag I didn't get any more! Thanks again and happy growing!
Great video. I grow with hydroponics in a greenhouse plus my Aerogardens in the house. You are the first RU-vidr that I've seen check the nutrient level with a meter. Great job.👍
Another thing to consider is your use of distilled water. The calcium in hard or city water is bioavailabile hydroponiclly to plants. The reason they say to use distilled or even half distilled is some people have really hard water. For example if you had hard water with a 500 ppm and were growing lettuce with a target of 500ppm you have no room to add other nutrients.
i used seeds from store bought tomatoes they sprouted already they took 3 days, I am growing those small dark mini kumato, for some reason I dont see the big ones in the store anymore I used to love them so when I seen tiny ones I had to try in case they stop growing those too!
Love how you documented this, a like tip, you may want to remove diseased/yellowed leaves and fruit as soon as you notice they aren't at their best. Also consider trimming the non fruiting foliage and use an electric toothbrush to help pollination :)
My gold harvest cherry tomatoes are at least 27 days old and they're no more than two or three inches tall. Yours are like 10 times larger than mine. I wonder if it's a difference in temperature is the room you're growing in much warmer? Mine is getting down to the low 60s
