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Rows of healthy hydroponic tomatoes are nurtured and grown in a high-tech greenhouse facility in Camarillo, California.
Houweling's Tomatoes is a family-owned operation dedicated to reducing its environmental footprint, one nutrient-rich tomato at a time.
The tomatoes at this facility are fed nitrogen, potassium, and other elements like iron and zinc to give it that extra kick. Plants sink their roots in coconut fibers, aiding in the growth of vines that can reach approximately a foot a week.
Since the facility is completely enclosed, there are no weeds, no fungus, or need for any pesticides or fungicides. Advanced computer technology controls the humidity and carbon dioxide levels, and solar panels provide the facility with total energy independence.
Reporter Val Zavala chats with tomato growers for a rare look inside the one-of-a-kind greenhouse facility in Southern California.
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@AverageAtBestHDTB 8 лет назад

I think this presenter/news outlet needs to visit Holland before making claims about such an operation being the most advanced in the world.

@daikiryoku 7 лет назад

Spicy Meat Americans are pretty small minded like that

@AverageAtBestHDTB 7 лет назад

Absolutely! An impressive nursery nonetheless though

@BN-fy8jy 7 лет назад

Spicy Meat Oh yeah! Being Dutch I totally agree!

@FarmerBenny 7 лет назад

True. Holland peppers are really good. Oh, and the weed!

@sacroarte6462 6 лет назад

FarmerBenny ...And tasteless by the way...

@ilias900 7 лет назад

I knew Hank Schrader wasn't dead

@mohammedjawkhab3587 4 года назад

Lmao

@cocopunch 4 года назад

Lol

@Intelinside-vo7wn 3 года назад

undercover tomato meth lab

@sifo510 3 года назад

“In the world” lol 😂 did he ever visit the Netherlands

@4077Disc 6 лет назад

I’ve worked in a greenhouse like this. It’s absolutely laughable to here “no bugs, no fungus, no pesticides”. These are all MAJOR issues in a monoculture greenhouse.

@sarahkerrigan6026 5 лет назад

bravo. down with volatile organic pesticides.

@ithren1 8 лет назад

You can't conquer the dutch glasshouses, even your hydrophilic fibres are from netherlands

@AverageAtBestHDTB 8 лет назад

I'm glad someone else has made this point. 'Most advanced in the world' she said. I don't think so haha!

@munirmohamed1561 5 лет назад

Nope. The hydrophilic fibres (coconut coir) is from Sri Lanka.

@Zoza15 5 лет назад

@@munirmohamed1561 *Patents*

@AverageAtBestHDTB 4 года назад

@@Zoza15 Coir from Sri Lanka, treated in Holland.

@petrhorak931 9 лет назад

"A: So would it be fair to say that this is probably most high-tech greenhouse in the country? B: In the WORLD!" Some mexicano passes with hand-pulled wagon. :D

@randy6178 6 лет назад

This is nothing compared to the Dutch agriculture..

@MrPennywise1540 4 года назад

It is said mexican. Educate yourself, you supposedly live in a first world country, supposedly the best of the world.

@remka2000 3 года назад

I think he means hand (cheap?) labor is the opposite of sophistication.

@KingLeonidas-xl2ue 5 лет назад

Dutch are no.1 in north europe! I live in germany and I eat sunstream tomatoes everyday! thanks Ollandia!!

@danieltalis7711 8 лет назад

The question is, what do the tomatoes taste like. They may look perfect but are consumers being duped. Heritage tomatoes on the other hand are delicious.

@AverageAtBestHDTB 8 лет назад

There's no 'duping' when it comes to a commercially grown produce. Anyone who can successfully grow their own are likely to have better tasting produce. It's the price you pay for buying fruit and veg at a supermarket.

@carsonvogt3297 6 лет назад

Disagree, I have also grown in both methods. Hydroponic, if done poorly, can result in poor tasting tomatoes. Done adequately, will likely taste as good as soil based tomatoes, and done well they'll taste better. I think you need to do some research on sustainability, perhaps more importantly scalability, and how they're related to changes in overall population.

@carsonvogt3297 6 лет назад

So you agree it's sustainable and scalable, but disagree on taste due to having done it yourself?

@mevofr 6 лет назад

The taste has also a LOT to do with the VARIETIES grown. That part is probably far more important than HOW it is grown. There, commercial growers have several parameters that they care about, and taste may (sadly) not be the most important one for them. Yield is very important, resistance of the plant, how long tomatoes last once picked, and so on...

@michaelvangundy226 6 лет назад

The heirloom tomatoes such as Black Krim, or Cherokee Purple taste fantastic. But if you are trying to raise them for market the problems compound with the volume. They do not store and ship well. Second is they have no resistance to disease. A small patch of a thousand plants can easily become overwhelmed by a simple fungus, this requires constant spraying with the mild organic certified spray. This season had a cold wet spring and we never did get ahead of it. We didn't market any ripe heirloom at all. Growing is never as easy as the comment section says it is.

@eshindi 8 лет назад

Hydroponics is needed over all else in the world to grow food globally. Hydroponics lowers the need for GMO by eliminating the negative conditions that have pushed for GMO to be created. The number one Organic fertilizer is sh!t, literally, that is what manure is. I rather eat food made from the bare elements than grown in organic sh!t. I eat both organic and hydro, but i have my preference. The world as a whole needs to be at 99% efficiency to sustain a healthy population. Hydroponics delivers that without GMO and relying rapid weather changes. As for all the tastes difference of hydro vs organic, it is possible with the correct mixtures of nutrients to grow the same tasting produce indoors, not easy but with an operation like this guys i bet he either knows how or is working on it. Hydronponic is going to be more favorable over organic because of Di-hydrogen Monoxide. The lack of this material will make hydroponics more favorable around the world as resources are harder to come by. I am a hydroponic grower, i work at a farm to table restaurant that grows and operates its own gardens, hydroponic systems and chickens. We need the best possible option to grow food, if we don't do that then humanity is at serious risk, it's that simple.

@eitkoml 8 лет назад

Are hydroponics anywhere close to being more profitable? Hydroponics won't be the future of farming until it is. It also has to be able to reach more budget minded consumers. If hydroponics is only accessible to the type of people who buy their groceries from places like Whole Foods and people who can go to the restaurants that talk about how green they are and charge more, hydroponics won't be the future of farming.

@paulwallace5590 6 лет назад

U NEED TO VISIT HOLLAND MATE THEY ARE THE KING OF GREENHOUSES

@jakeknelsen2318 4 года назад

paul wallace Or Leamington, Ontario👍

@ee3894 8 лет назад

Insect at 3:44, while discussing insect prevention.

@manumaestri 7 лет назад

hahahaha

@zaappp1588 7 лет назад

I saw that too. At least it was just a bee.

@HariiBTV 7 лет назад

beneficial insects ;)

@lolanakahale1665 7 лет назад

good eye

@vojtator 7 лет назад

Pollinating insect, not harmfull one.

@gokuvegeta2754 9 лет назад

Dutch are the best growers!!!

@leifcatt 9 лет назад

+Goku Vegeta I agree, the Dutch have a 20 year edge on U.S. growers. Their yields are a minimum of 20% over our best test facilities let alone our greenhouse farms. Once again they have been doing this a lot longer and now have been doing this organically since 2005(?). They HAVE to grow organically because of government regulations. Their brix levels are super high and in some cases, off the charts. They had to make brix testers that could actually read the high levels that the conventional brix testers could not read. So hats off to the Netherlands. If only they were a little more open source, food production for the global population would be greatly increased. Unfortunately they have learned from the U.S. that greed is good and the bottom line is to keep secrets to improve profits.

@LindseyReti 9 лет назад

+Goku Vegeta Califronia grows much better ganja

@pauldevette 6 лет назад

Ganja seeds created by the dutch. You can't beat dutch farmers, just trie to use the methods they perfected.

@randy6178 6 лет назад

leifcatt They are very open sourced about their technology but don't have much space.. they are looking for a way to plant crops in the dessert early 2019! They are also selling their technology, Eventough im German this still makes me satisfied! Hope countries like Russia and the U.S will use this method since it decreases 90% of the water needed and is way more efficient economic wise.

@bradley244ify 3 года назад

I just started to do some basement hydroponics. I have a beefsteak and a couple of brandywines set up Kratky style. I will see if I can get them all the way. My hope is to get a whole produce system going down there and grow some field crops to flesh things out.

@patrickbrand1319 8 лет назад

Funny how most people talk but know nothing about fruit grown by hydroponics

@clysen8234 7 лет назад

Please, educate me

@q8ee59 7 лет назад

"chemicals!!!" dumbasses don't realise the "chemical fertilizer" is just base elements fed to the plant, like Potassium, Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Sulfur.

@michaelvangundy226 6 лет назад

Hydroponic, "growing without soil". The solution of three major and four minor along with six trace elements is mixed when needed to be supplied to the plants. Since it is not grown in soil there is no reserve of nutrients for the plant to draw from. The other elements available in the soil provides "taste" that the nutrient solution doesn't supply. The sterile solution and media is very helpful in producing a product that stores and ships well. Which is very necessary if you are growing for market. There is a huge difference between growing a few dozen plants for home use and growing for a market supplying a few thousand families or a few thousand stores. The problems compound with the volume.

@eternitynaut 7 лет назад

If it had two levels, it would be 40x more productive. With 4 levels it would double again. Why not expand vertically then? Then there is containment, it's clear that it's not isolated enough from how many insects kept flying in front of the camera. They need better solutions to keep insects out, I bet most of them get in when the employees enter or exit the greenhouse. All they have to do is copy the semi conductor industry, they got plenty of methods to prevent containment.

@PlantSugar 8 лет назад

Scary, how do they taste, and do they have all the nutrients as in bio dynamic or permaculture tomatoes?

@wayradbrad139 8 лет назад

+Plant Sugar Washed out, no taste. Factory farming. People don't even know what a good tomato tastes like anymore. Sad.

@PlantSugar 8 лет назад

+Bradley Romero No wonder people don't like water anymore.

@eitkoml 8 лет назад

I wonder how they would taste to people who don't know that they were grown in a hydroponic greenhouse. Especially with a blind taste test alongside ones that were grown organically and in soil.

@PlantSugar 8 лет назад

It is easy to taste the difference between tomatoes. There are so many factors that will affect the tomato.

@PlantSugar 8 лет назад

Hmm, I would guess so. :-)

@buenafamiliafarms9668 5 лет назад

I grow alot of "Tomatoes" too !

@uvcreations3663 4 года назад

Will supply you seeds.ph.no:9704451129

@DudeRevolution 8 лет назад

Id like to know how he keeps all the bugs out just by putting it in doors. Even the immaculate Walter White couldn't overcome that doosey.. speaking of which, the dude is a dead ringer of Hang Schraeder!!!

@raybon7939 8 лет назад

Notice that despite any advance. Pests, somehow find a way. So it is possible his??...production gains. Where wipped out, or shortened by the pest.

@jordyleffers9244 6 лет назад

Wow. Look at the weird glass structures. Unprecedented. Westland.

@fostermarquardt8335 3 года назад

Why do they make this seem so out of reach?

@7peso 6 лет назад

Tomatoes that all look and taste the same. Nothing like the real thing, just business and mass production with minimum nutrition necessary

@josephercastor8026 7 лет назад

we're basically eating chemical fertilizer, petroleums

@lazaromedero4431 6 лет назад

giggity juju u

@utahted7330 2 года назад

Utah!!!!!!! This is how you grow tomatoes

@dwainesterling14 7 лет назад

sorry... but there is no "better than organic"... Organic is the only way to go.

@MicahJohns 6 лет назад

This farm is insane.

@joaodecarvalho7012 7 лет назад

They must develop the technology to grow the crops that really feed people, like wheat.

@markknoop6283 2 года назад

wheat and corn is mostly used for lifestock food bud eggplants zucchini are grown in a greenhouse by the metric tons

@TheSubpremeState 6 лет назад

What use is it if the tomatoes are more expensive?

@MrPennywise1540 4 года назад

This have no sense. If you consider that they are producing 24 times the production of a similar acre, so the option of not buy so much land to reach the same production already save you of the half of cost of this hydroponic farm. But, being so small your area of work, you need less people. And being all your assets inside an artificial domme, give you more management control . It´s a win/win.

@attilavicen1579 10 месяцев назад

Its not a hydroponics, its irrigation system. Big difference. Hydroponics mean growing without medium. And the other thing i cant understand why they need that much elecrticity? For the waterpumps only? Or they have extra light source?

@kjtilka Год назад

We need more hydroponic farms in California

@robhughes645 2 года назад

Interesting but definitely not the most advanced greenhouse in the world, even 8 years ago. The Dutch have had advanced hydro for 40 years -)

@buenafamiliafarms9668 5 лет назад

They do lie though, nats are always present in hydroponics, full hydro, coco style, etc

@dertythegrower 4 года назад

fact.. he said no fungus.. i planted 100s of those slabs of coconut today and the rockwool cubes get fungus in 3 days.. you can see the fungus in this video many times.. its not bad to health but its there, green fungus

@Nawaf- 4 года назад

derty MI QWERTY Do you mean algae? That’s not fungus. Green is algae and it feeds on light. Harmless

@markknoop6283 2 года назад

In the world 😃😀 how much energie is used how much water are you. there are for sure funges growing in the greenhouse. we are growing ower food for more than 30 years like this. bud we have moved on and improved our systems.

4 года назад

Superb

@imaninjajk 8 лет назад

I support GMOs because I know what they actually are!

@clysen8234 7 лет назад

Finally, someone :)

@leerman22 7 лет назад

GMO's and vertical farming would be the only way to colonize space.

@natel9019 7 лет назад

heffe moneyno GMO is fine,Transgenetic Mutation is horrible.

@rockie6890 7 лет назад

You support GMOs because your a TROLL and are getting paid by these f-k-s who are poisoning the public. Have a cup of roundup and Bon Appetite.

@leerman22 7 лет назад

You are very funny.

@VjUlvfox 4 года назад

2:44 behind his head :D

@russellarmer602 5 лет назад

they should have know about white flies

@navarra-qf2ds 7 месяцев назад

I never buy greenhouse tomatoes unless they are grown conventionally in a tunnel with compost and mierda de vaca

@AmitRawatuk 7 лет назад

Ric flair theme

@georgelouis6515 8 лет назад

I want one of those! Build one onto my house!

@LavaHead64 8 лет назад

lol it would probaly not fit

@shortsofyashupandit8730 3 года назад

In which country this polyhouse is situated.?please answer me!

@liamduncan732 5 лет назад

Krakey no need for power just water

@edlazaro7044 3 года назад

Yes you Need power for pumps & lighting... Also for heating & cooling...

@kalpeshparmar4515 6 лет назад

good farming. nice.

@Theguiltysoulswillpay4889 4 года назад

This is not good , he actually said what their doing is better than organic can you believe that ?

@jazzydango9 7 лет назад

The experience , I got is that those farmers(the Canadian ones either in BC or in Leamington-Ontario) are far behind using the new technologies such as plant speaking approaches.The Houwleing 's Farm is one of them even if they are located in the USA.I advise you to learn from the Japanese , the Dutch or even from the Moroccan.True, you have money to build such facilities, but you don't have the brain to be creative.

@jazzydango9 7 лет назад

How much do they pay this corrupt journalist.?!!!!

@randy6178 6 лет назад

Thats literally the definition of an American: you have the money to build such facilities but you dont have the brains to be creative" best statement 2018.

@mva6213 2 года назад

vegetables from hydroponic is bland..................................

@Magekat 2 года назад

this is so funny. tomato nirvana.

@yuhuagreenhousediffuserefl7997 3 года назад

Modern agricultural technology hydroponics will be more widely used

@taffythegreat1986 4 года назад

How can he think that his tomatoes are better than organic? Who really wants to eat food with chemicals in them.

@grdiman 6 лет назад

Let’s ask our self where all the waste water (that plants don’t drink up) full of synthetic nutrients and unhealthy additives goes? (salts - that makes soil unfriendly to microbes) Back to groundwater? To the ocean? To the soil nearby? And all the pollution that is made just to make those nutrients… If that’s the future - we are all going down … :/. All that growing can be made with natural growing - system that makes living soil not destroying it. Teaming with microbes is the future we all should be looking for!

@kalpeshparmar4515 6 лет назад

good farming. nice.

@BradStolba Год назад

It's Hank from Breaking Bad!

@CanidaeCanislupus 7 лет назад

"What a space shutle is to aviation, this is". So its out of use soon, too?

@cwag7264 9 лет назад

please give me a job. austin lycans,maroa farms coldwater michigan 18 months dedicated service. fired due to HR/management discrepancies WAS compensated for such, BUT miss my job! clipping/de-suckering 25,000 plants per/40 hr week

@professionalbiologist7108 6 лет назад

As a biologist, Trust me. This is nothing close to what we can do with farming.

@doc2280 2 года назад

I AM INTERESTED & WANT DETAILS IN NEUTIENT SOLIUTION

@JohnzeeMr 8 лет назад

King Salman: Very nice this is why you need corporate agriculture when you pull minds together even with the Solonae family the first really scientific feasible growing of tomatoes. But I got a job for you boys this one from personal experience this is a problem even our we struggle with and on a scale that every farmer will use and find useful but with your resources and technical expertise you can easily built the structure from the system specs I will give you.

@cassiebianco2896 3 года назад

LOVE THE JAMS 🎉

@rayharmon7254 7 лет назад

I've been operating a 40 bucket, dutch bucket setup for 6 years, it out produces my in ground garden all day long, I don't use chemical fertilizer, mine comes from ground/pulverised fish. My cantelope, cucumbers and tomatoes love the stuff,, still battle with the bugs though,, last year I planted spearmint, and mint around the cant's/cuc's to keep squash bugs down, and it did really well. Scaling it back to 16 buckets this year, due to a back injury.. Nowhere this advanced,, lol I'm lucky to have the timer on my water system. Glad I have a well because it sucks the water when the heat gets up outside.

@susanspencer9538 5 лет назад

All a person has to do is start out small you own 50% of the Company, this is what were going to do, & find investors to buy Stock into this idea, & you then get rich to add more of th his.

@tubestick00 7 лет назад

i love the way they talk about this like its new technology. people have done this for decades. the only thing interesting about this operation is the scale of it. even the guy was like how much water, how mich carbon dioxide, oh... oh just a huge amount of things to consider. no its not. how.can anybody think its cutting edge or complicated. it is very simple.

@crisbycris4012 3 года назад

You need to visit the Netherlands.

@kicknadeadcat 4 года назад

Hydroponic tomatoes do not have the flavor of one’s grown in soil. Sorry........

@oldschoolhiphop1131 6 лет назад

haha, they use salt based ferts and he thinks' "they are better than organic", excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor...

@thoangtrinh3225 4 года назад

Yes we are better than organic🍅🍅

@ianhady 6 лет назад

Why not stick with proper organic inside the green house, I'd be willing to pay for that, but these veg on steriods, no thank you.

@jamesjustice859 2 года назад

I tell you more greenhouse is more hydroponics less water is used for the drought and causing issues

@张政-x9j Год назад

Hello friend Are you a greenhouse grower?

@gwaney 5 лет назад

These people need to check on the internet. There are other more advanced farming greenhouses outside of their tiny area, even in 2011.

@blackknightfilm1386 7 лет назад

Natural soil has so many micronutrients that effect the taste and nutrient content. Looks good, numbers are good but taste and health quality will be poor.

@carsonvogt3297 6 лет назад

Sure sure, like what?

@ExtemporeMuzzzz 6 лет назад

Taste comes from nutrients and what kind of light tomatoes get. So If you modify thous factors you get different kind of taste. I looking forward to future to see how greenhouse technology will continue moving forward.

@carsonvogt3297 6 лет назад

Yeah, but specifics. You can throw the word nutrients and micronutrients around, but without support the comments are meaningless.

@roman.venica 7 лет назад

When I visited USA I tasted a cherry tomato and it tasted like nothing, almost like eating water :( Is it everywhere like that?

@MINAKSELEBAH 4 года назад

Can you tell me what kind fertilizer for tomato vegetatif ?

@AlexTrusk91 5 лет назад

5 years after upload, 8 years after filming. any updates?

@AverageAtBestHDTB 4 года назад

Updates on what?

@narcisz1982 3 года назад

If this is the future, we are over.

@MrJaman0083 9 лет назад

I'd put my organic hydroponic tomatoes against these tasteless chem bathed crap sacks in an double blind taste test any day!

@2awesome292 8 лет назад

+James Meloy Have you actually tasted hydroponic anything? Most of the time they taste BETTER than "organic". The tasteless stuff comes from regular farms that they have to pick before they are ripe and treated with chemicals to last the ride and to look the way they are supposed to when they are in the store.

@carsonvogt3297 6 лет назад

You'd likely lose.

@HeliosWorksAV 8 лет назад

Nice set up, even though I'm a stickler for all organic I can still appreciate what they're trying. I wonder what an organic permaculture setup would do in an enclosed environment like that with some automation involved.

@chesschamp276 4 года назад

what do you know about organic permaculture ?? rookie

@navarra-qf2ds 7 месяцев назад

Not organic. I wonder what you feed your plants other than synthetic fertilizers. Nope, you are in business to make money and not worry about your clients health

@janacivka7499 8 лет назад

samá voda a chemikálie, žiadne prirodzené podmienky, to je lepšia rajčina z balkona, ktorú si dopestujem vo velkom črepníku alebo si pojdem kupit na trh od záhradkára, len propagujú vraj organic, ale je to samá chémia.

@theehealthnuts 8 лет назад

organic, pesticide free, non-gmo, grown with pharmaceutical grade minerals, all stuff I would like seeing on the label.

@lesliechow4719 3 года назад

This is no big deal. The real challenge is to figure out how to harvest this without cheap labor.

@1994FARID 6 лет назад

Hello I am looking for simple green house owners to communicate i am from azerbaijan and starting my green house

@fantataful 3 года назад

Here i am: arnadr@gmail.com

@patriciahammett4197 6 лет назад

Are the crops pollinated? That would take these some kind of little bugs.

@karlpeterson1990 7 лет назад

Perfect tomatoes that taste horrible.

@BaNuj 7 лет назад

Affirmative. I had an occasion to eat one in Netherlands, and they tasted like dish soap...

@carsonvogt3297 6 лет назад

Ah, good thing you tasted one to let the world know all hydroponic tomatoes taste bad.

@MonteChristoCapitalLLC 8 лет назад

pretty cool, Id love to have something like this

@remka2000 3 года назад

Music is horrible.

@Golommod 4 года назад

Yep taste like lab nitrogen yea all you need computer knows

@jakkob819 5 лет назад

This is amazing and hard to wrap your head around. But it works. So they say this is the future of farming? What about crops of rice, soybeans, and other grains? Just wondering.

@hamidrezanaseri4066 5 лет назад

great. thank you for your effort

@alphasxsignal 7 лет назад

I like my veggies to grow in dirt mother earth. This stuff has so much chemicals in their food.

@vickyshankar1917 6 лет назад

Really Nice......but how did you control the pests

@subnantingfort 6 лет назад

Something very simple and natural made complex and difficult

@angelruiz2814 2 года назад

Yo trabaje con este patrón en Canadá alguien ke me ayude para poder trabaje en ese invernadero o en estados unidos

@Mrsnamor 4 года назад

Yeah, but they lack full flavor. I grow mine in healthy soil and they taste great! I love a tomato sandwich on toast with Hellman's mayonnaise.

@croakingembryo Год назад

Flavor of tomatoes depends almost exclusively on the variety. Most supermarket tomatoes are grown by commercial farmers who sadly care more about yield than taste.