GRAPE TOMATOES AND COCONUTS?!

[@papawsplace]

The Mic sounds great.

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you, good to know!

[@jameshall5314]

Lav mic is great

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks, appreciate the feedback!

[@gregholl5011]

I almost never force people to see me in shorts but 50 degrees is t shirt weather for me especially with sun shine! 😊

[@wishwellfarms]

Heck yeah, I wear shorts year-round when backpacking and running and also on the farm spring through fall as long as I’m not doing something that’s dangerous or messy.

[@jacobpoucher]

Sweet video.!Grape tomoatoes are my fav. close second is tomatillo green. I use alot of coco mixed with perlite.

[@wishwellfarms]

so much better than cherry tomatoes in my opinion, thanks Jacob!

[@billking5407]

The mic sounds verygood ,tomatoes do look alittle leggy but should be ok ,never try thr coco slabs , nice video, thanks for sharing

[@wishwellfarms]

Glad the mic sounds good. I’ve had to deal with my greenhouse tomato transplants stretching too much every year for the last 20 years, no matter what I do or what I use I cannot keep them short and stocky like my field tomatoes that I grow in germination mix, I certainly would consider trying a different fertilizer blend for the starts. Thanks for watching Bill.

[@wishwellfarms]

I just discovered why my plants have been stretching so bad for the past few years after talking to another experienced grower...my fertilizer mix I've been using has a lot of Ammoniacal N and not enough Nitrate N, which has been causing so much cell elongation. I ran out of proper mix a few years ago and did not pay close attention to the N analysis. There are several other factors as well, but that is a big one.

[@chili-in-a-vase]

great work, great video, great man

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you!

[@stephenbradbury460]

Use what your using sounds awesome

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks!

[@yvonnerobinson8937]

sounds good to me

[@FensterfarmGreenhouse]

What are your determinant tomato varieties?

[@wishwellfarms]

The grape tomato is Ruby Crush. The red rounds in the field are Rambler, Skyway 687, STM2255, Roadster and BHN 964. The yellow is Carolina Gold and the Roma is Mariana.

[@FensterfarmGreenhouse]

@@wishwellfarms thanks so much. We are trying to use determinants this year between our greenhouses and that Florida weave system looks like the way to go out there. Not really wanting to build the infrastructure to use tomahooks and the lower and lean that I use inside the greenhouses. Thanks for sharing! Chuck

[@umarabdulrehman3395]

Great . what problems you faced with high tunnel ? In south punjab pakistan we sow tomatoes in october when temp is low and crop harvest at March_ April . same with chilli . Now temp is 44_45 degree Centigrade .

[@wishwellfarms]

A high tunnel is by far less expensive than an automated Greenhouse, but the management of the high tunnel is vastly higher. I was the only one managing it, and it was a nightmare, checking on it all throughout the day make sure the temperature was right we also had to worry about our soils getting diseases in them From planting tomatoes in the same spot year after year after year. Don’t have to worry about any of these thingsgrowing in greenhouses.

[@umarabdulrehman3395]

Understood Sir . Thankyou so much 🌹

[@hpgroup9519]

I love all your videos sometimes i go sleep watching them 😂😂 Quick question, is it okay to leave the grow slabs on the ground? No issue with the drainage?

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you! Believe me, I would prefer to have my grow bags up off the ground just to have my plants up higher and to be off the cold ground, but it does not affect the drainage because I just put slits about an inch from the bottom of the bag for Feed solution to drain out the bottom instead of drowning out the roots. This also helps me determine if they are getting too little or too much water.

[@stephenbradbury460]

Do you floor heat your igloos. We do we grow tomatoes all year. Also othere fruit

[@wishwellfarms]

Im one of our greenhouses, we do have radiant floor heat from a boiler

[@suave47]

I think the coco slabs a r great method. Seems less labour intensive way doing it. Is there any way to recycle the overflow of nutrien rich water that comes out of the bag. Seems like u would b wasting alot of that nutrients

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks Eric. We have never recycled any of our used leach water, I know some people do, but I am not set up for that. I’ve always been under the impression that a majority of the nutrients that Tomatoes need have been removed and it’s full of extra salts that could harm the plants. Even the other greenhouses with Bato buckets, the leach just runs out the greenhouse into the field. Larger commercial set ups have the coco slabs about wast high on stands, and would be much easier work with and collect the runoff.

[@wild_insomnia]

do you have problems with drippers' clogging ?

[@wishwellfarms]

Yes, one of my biggest thorns in my side during late winter when I’m getting the greenhouses ready. But we have found something that helps, we flush everything out in the fall with oxidate and let them sit over winter and then flush them again with the same stuff late winter and usually takes care of about 90% of the problem

[@wild_insomnia]

how tall is Gavin ? Man ,those modern kids-they are GROWING. He's also has good genes from his dad.Maybe from mom also) Can't tell that.

[@wishwellfarms]

lol, Gavin is only 6 foot one, about an inch taller than me but my other son Blake is 6’ 4 1/2, we have some tall men on my dad side. I’m the shortest of the three sons. My other brothers are 6 foot two and 6 foot four.

[@wild_insomnia]

@@wishwellfarms hey,but the most handsome also

[@wishwellfarms]

@@wild_insomnia 😂