Growing Tomatoes Indoors With 94% Less Water And No Soil

[@ABCScience]

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[@bbas4251]

Do you thinks is BIO?Nah a lot of chemical involved and if thats the future than we re doomed!

[@iuncaged]

You new generation farmers are killing nutrients in food crops. I bought carrot the other time, it was so orange in color and fresh and meaty that I couldn't wait to eat it. As soon as I took a bite, I became worried. It was flavorless and tasteless. I was eating carrot that tasted like water. Carrots are supposed to be sweetish with a very strong carrot flavour Same thing with garlic. Garlic ought to have a really strong garlic flavour but the garlic in the market these days is so mild in flavor that you wonder what horror profit driven greedy farmer are doing to our food crops! I can't be the only one noticing how mild our fruits and veggies are getting in flavour?? Profit is not all there is to life. Food nutrients in plant should always trump profit. Change your ways. Grow food on the ground. Use organic manure. Stop being lazy. Spread the word!!

[@ricknsw71]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👎👎👎👎👎

[@menesilhouvithepa1082]

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[@sunilsolanki8502]

How to tomato seed arrived

[@chilliberry]

Gonna be strawberry farmer this year! Wish me luck(: Edit: also in comment section . Im in rehab . Been here for almost 7 months. I hope i will start when life is more stabil. Blessings.

[@redangrybird7564]

Wish you the best, mate 😀👍

[@chilliberry]

@@redangrybird7564 thanks ❤️ very kind of u☺️

[@martinflores1370]

Good luck!! 🍓

[@chilliberry]

@@martinflores1370 thank you sir 🙏🏻❤️

[@siddhantsingh2046]

All the best. How big your farm will be?

[@franko3006]

As 1 tomatoes grower said "I don't get paid for the taste only by the tonne. Taste doesn't pay me a dollar more " Thats why store bought tomatoes only look like tomatoes not taste like them.

[@armvahdat8791]

Indoor farming hasn't even been widely implemented yet it's still in it's infancy the food actually taste better from indoor farms the food from the market is still grown in soil just gmo now

[@franko3006]

@@armvahdat8791 TOTAL RIBBISH IVE GROWN BOTH

[@armvahdat8791]

@@franko3006 probably wrong the indoor grown vegetables I've tasted all have exceptional taste and quality the depth of flavor is really no comparison

[@ashwan3875]

@@franko3006 The future is here old man, get with the times

[@franko3006]

@@ashwan3875 amateur tyre kicker. Do you work at an indoor operation. I will put $100k that my tomatoes taste better than any of your best indoor tomatoes.

[@gr.gr.9886]

I do never buy any tomatoe in the shops in winter. I do buy in the market from small producer in Summer.

[@obelixlegaulois2312]

In dutch horticulture it is common practice to actually introduce real bees in the greenhouse so that pollination occus through them. Great video :)

[@atklm1]

That's a workplace hazard for everyone working there, from electricians to plumbers and gardeners. I would call union, if my boss came to office and poured a bucket full of viper snakes on the floor "to keep the mice out naturally". "They rarely bite humans, that can happen on some rare occasion, but their bite is life threatening only for those who are allergic. Which you may or may not be, can't know if you've never been bitten by a viper. Such is life, suck it up!" xD

[@michaelmano7261]

@@atklm1 or you could just not get a job working in horticulture with bees if you were allergic.

[@MrEiht]

You are funny. You do realize that tomatoes pollinate themselves?! Even if a plane flies by your closed greenhouse that is enough...

[@atklm1]

@@michaelmano7261 Bee sting is a workplace hazard, whether you are allergic or not. Here where I live (Nordics), employer would have to pay for protective suit and depending on case, maybe has to pay even hazard bonus. And that is cheap compared to what it would cost if employee gets sting because suit and proper safety education and procedures were not implemented. And I mean, like really expensive, like 18 months salary as a compensation, plus fines, because workplace safety violation by neglect is a crime. And I actually don't know whether I am allergic to bees or not. I might be, it's not like everyone gets tested as a child like getting vaccination. And allergy is not like diabetes, that you either have or don't, it's a spectrum and you may gain or lose allergies over time. I know people who were really allergic to chocolate when younger, but now eat a ton of it. And vice versa.

[@topazhb2069]

@@atklm1 Ever heard of this place called outdoors? Bees generally exist in any workplace that deals with plants and nature, why would it be any different in this case? Do you also wear a full-suit of protective gear when walking around in the forest? Most people sure don't..

[@edwardfletcher7790]

One of the best features of this system, apart from saving millions of litres of water, is the lack of pesticides !

[@soonsuicidal]

But isnt the electricity cost too expensive.

[@M1ssing_Link]

@@soonsuicidal put solar panels on the field nearby and it should be fine

[@mr16325]

@@M1ssing_Link I doubt solar panels would be anywhere near powerful enough to power the operation, but it could be a small help

[@calsterman8119]

@@mr16325 A big help! He says the farm ist a "quarter of a million square meter" big, which means that if we cover about 60% of the area with solar panels at an output of about 200W peak per square meter for, lets say 6 hours a day (australia is pretty sunny but i still only make 6 hours to cover some downtime and lower electricity generation over a year), that makes about 180000 kWh generated per day, aka a massive amount of power. Of course this is a pretty ideal scenario without any losses, but still, thats a lot of electricity

[@mr16325]

@@calsterman8119 uhhh why would you waste 60% of the area to hold solar panels

[@GamingBT]

It's a shame you didn't show the final product - maybe give us a run down of the amount of nutritional value in one tomato, and compare with others that were grown through different methods. A taste test could also be interesting. Tomatoes nowadays are usually plucked nowhere near to when they are ripe, because of transport.

[@taitjones6310]

I just harvested my first tomatoes of the year 3 days ago. I haven't had a fresh tomato since last fall, just store bought. I was blown away by how good mine are compared to store bought. Not just taste either, the texture is far superior as well. I grow them in the ground with home made compost and foliar feed weekly with kelp and fish emulsion. If the plant is strong and healthy with no nutrient deficiencies they are much less susceptible to pests and diseases. Just like people.

[@GamingBT]

@@taitjones6310 That's great, what kind of a climate do you live in? I think the current problem with commercial tomatoes is that their genetics have really been modified to be productive rather than tasty or high in nutrients. I guess we can't complain, though, since we need more demand now than ever. If you're interested , I highly recommend reading the University of Florida research about tomatoes and their complex phenotypes (Denise Tieman).

[@taitjones6310]

@@GamingBT I live in USDA zone 6b in NW Texas. Average yearly rainfall is listed at 14 inches, but we just got off a 10 month drought and I've had about 4 1/2 inches so far since May. The problem with commercially grown tomatoes is actually volume and shipping. Industrial practices took hold in agriculture and everyone forgot all their common sense. Commercially grown tomatoes have to be picked before they are ripe and shipped long distances. We really just need more small farms, like 20,000% more small farms in order to keep most produce local, or at the very least, regional, so that tomato varieties can be bread specifically for individual climates. Honestly, selecting the right variety of anything for your local climate is the most important thing in maintaining a healthy garden. If you're interested in the actual growing side of it, you should look up Charles Wilbur. He could be considered the Godfather of high production organic tomatoes. He set the world record for tomato plants with a 28.5 ft. tall plant that produced over 400lbs. of tomatoes. No GM phenotypes, just Big Boy and Better Boy varieties. After reading some of his work (he has a book) I've doubled the size of my plants and tripled production. The plants are the healthiest plants that I have ever grown or seen in person. And I've still got a long way to go.

[@bagitson]

I grow tomatoes hydroponically. They are just as tasty and nutritious as the plant has dialed in nutrients.

[@aenorist2431]

That would reveal that they are literally worthless as food, because despite a techbro's best effort, plants are complex parts of a complex ecosystem (the soil) which only work properly within that ecosystem.

[@chrisharrison2759]

I had to put marijuana plants in there so no one got suspicious I was growing tomatoes.

[@handl3_me]

Nice one, I see what you did there😉

[@thefirstbushman]

I know you're joking but stinger nettles are a very similar shape and mask the odour and provide good protecting insects

[@Jo-hq4zt]

@@thefirstbushman protecting insects?

[@ricardosmythe2548]

@@Jo-hq4zt "protecting insects" keep mite numbers down, mites can be damaging to some crops

[@justsaiyan8678]

😂😂 Has much man power has it taken to keep a plant away from us?

[@لاجئمنتوف-س9ز]

I like it right now. I work in tomato cultivation, but I liked farming in England. I hope to work there as soon as possible. I have 9 years of experience. Thank you from Syria

[@experienceoflivingingerman4684]

Love from Germany best of luck

[@لاجئمنتوف-س9ز]

Thank you very much

[@alex-c3y3w]

This is super cool but I am a little bummed that they are hand pollinated. That seems like a lot of work and that pollen could feed a lot of bees. If only there was a way to have hives inside the green house with lots of bees to pollinate everything. Plus you get honey that way too as a bonus. No idea if thats feasible at all though. We just need more bees in the world.

[@iloveblu]

we need to support solitary bees, bees are dying because of a surplus of honey bees

[@jamskinner]

I don’t see why it wouldn’t.

[@sunitafisher4758]

🌸 I second that, they can easily place some beehives in there & just ensure people they hire are not allergic. Bees only sting if they’re under serious threat or disturbed in their hive, that’s why beekeepers are so gentle.

[@roberttimmins415]

@@jamskinner Bees can't move in greenhouses since they use sunlight to navigate..bumble bees can tho

[@sjp6341]

Bees eat nectar and unwittingly transmit pollen in the process. The gigahertz from the MW towers is slaughtering the bees. No bees no food.

[@zakiadam3717]

Put big woofers matching natural frequency of those flowers and run the amp full volume.

[@paulhernke7383]

This is a great idea!

[@briansmith8250]

Interesting... so what's the natural frequency for em ???? I'd like to try

[@justindrew9702]

Should just maybe let a few hives of bees in there.

[@Josh-rn1em]

That's what I was thinking. Must be some crazy reason they dont

[@faber_3285]

Other farms do that

[@bluefernlove]

Since they're dealing with monofarms, if they didn't control the environment, most likely they'd have a pest problem, and the bees would suffer because of it. I've never really understood why they don't do multicrops in this kind of hydroponic environment. Open for insects, a few plants would get pests but other insects would arrive to control them. Variety would be key to homeostasis.

[@affenkeks]

Bees wouldn't survive in there. They don't deal well with monoculture, which is one of the reasons they're dying out in rural areas but thrive in urban areas.

[@Josh-rn1em]

@@affenkeks that makes sense. I'm sure they would if they could because it would be cheaper

[@thedamnedatheist]

In this country, as prone as it is to drought, it makes a lot more sense to use these methods, than traditional ones.

[@Rhinoch8]

No. Checkout Pascal Poot.

[@thedamnedatheist]

@@Rhinoch8 , his stuff looks interesting; especially the heritage varieties he is growing, that needs to be encouraged. But what passes for dry in France is completely different from what passes for dry in Australia during a drought.

[@backtotheoldway6964]

@@Rhinoch8 Fine for France, but other nations take dry to an entirely different level. It's not dry compared to Australia. Or, Heaven forbid, some place like Chad, or even Burkina Faso.

[@zionvision6942]

It's simply industrial production. Enough tomatoes can be produced by traditional means.

[@fredfinks]

This is what most farming should turn into. One of our biggest problems is agricultural runoff and soil acidification from farming. Thats even before pesticides and the rest. Warehouse farms is the go - clean, efficient, minimal pollution. Output vs land size, with a return of HUGE swathes of land to forest.

[@mr16325]

But using traditional farms simply isn’t sustainable . Having farms that massive traditional wrecks havoc on the water supply and soil health

[@Davids976]

Works 5 min. I love this job... Man work 12 hours than tell me if you still love it 🤣

[@sahali14]

still better than any other regular job tho

[@sabin97]

@@sahali14 if you do it for at least 8 hours a day it IS a regular job....and a very boring and repetitive one at that.

[@josh._-_]

@@sabin97 like every other job isn't?

[@sabin97]

@@josh._-_ regular jobs, yeah.

[@josh._-_]

@@sabin97 so farming isn't a regular job? Howd you work that out

[@thiruvetti]

Nina : Look, Pollen is in the air Paul: No Nina, Thats love.

[@rohitmohan2916]

Is it possible to farm honey bees in the same closed unit?? Might help in pollination and a good source of pure honey..

[@neilpieterse9614]

I agree

[@TheZarric]

It would be interesting but ultimately, it would result in a failure. The honey might look and taste like corn syrup with this horrible tomato plan.

[@neilpieterse9614]

I did some research, honey bees cannot pollenate tomato flowers, the tomato flower also contains no nectare so there is no use dor the bee to visit them.

[@milkdrinker5966]

In the Netherlands we uwe bumblebees, we set up hives in the greenhouse. You can feed them a bit of sugar water of needed. Bees are never used

[@Ptitnain2]

@@milkdrinker5966 Same in Québec.

[@Marketingmagician]

This is based on old technology. I was doing this in the 80s

[@HashFace253]

In your basement under lamps? That's where my "tomatoes" are

[@Marketingmagician]

@@HashFace253 no. I was a commercial tomato grower growing in greenhouses.

[@iamsahdev]

Ya just like you used to walk 10 miles for school....

[@iamsahdev]

Ya just like you used to walk 10 miles for school....

[@iamsahdev]

Ya just like you used to walk 10 miles for school....

[@MrFreakj]

What is the energy/co2 cost of this compared to Normal plants?

[@thatorange08]

Surely there must be blind taste test between these & regular outdoor tomatoes. Would be interesting to see the difference in flavor.

[@arbulonrexhepi]

The tomatoes grown outdoor in normal conditions would taste much much better, 100%.

[@Tony_Sab]

@@arbulonrexhepi not really in my experience the ones grown in hydroponics are of higher quality if done correctly

[@earthwaterandmarah]

Amazing! Watching this for my Study Tour module to the Netherlands for my MSc in Agroforestry and Food Security. This is inspiring not only on an agricultural level but also on a videography level. Thank you for sharing.

[@hugoamkreutz2081]

It’s like sci craft but applied to tomatoes

[@lesgreen8508]

I see lots of electricity, glass, metal, and plastic used, and lots of work.....why not keep beehives in there...plant vibrators indeed

[@trolololol9000]

Honestly as a grower myself. We would love to be able to use bees instead of manual pollination as it'll save us alot of money on labour. Problem is the bees required for the job you're not allowed to bring in from Europe due it being an invasive species.

[@whoatemylastcheezit511]

solar energy is always an option! theres too much farmland but people still starve. if this helps solve land and starvation issues, than a little more power can't hurt

[@noobFPV]

@@trolololol9000 Sorry what ? You don't have bees ?

[@mckinleyd603]

Rockwool as growing medium is not sustainable farming

[@trolololol9000]

@@mckinleyd603 yes it is as you can still mulch it into the soil for your soil crop after the season done

[@nephilimslayer73]

I have bought truss tomatoes for many years because they have more flavour and are not sprayed with poisons as field tomatoes are. If solar power and water reuse are employed, it will be a sustainable business.

[@taitjones6310]

no

[@Robert-xp4ii]

It seems the labor and equipment (purchase, maintenance, etc) will make them cost a LOT.

[@BuddhistInsightsforPL]

The gardening tips you shared at 0:47 were absolutely fantastic! They are exactly what I needed to improve my home garden this season!

[@davidpetrovic9842]

He is very good with that stick that vibrates

[@An_Aspirant2001]

Are you sure, you're talking about this video???? 😁😁😁😁

[@starsareangels]

Lol

[@howardgeorge1318]

What variety of tomato is being grown?

[@hey_its_travis]

Have feeling it's not heirloom, creole or betterboys. Wld like to know as well.

[@thedylan123456789]

i wonder if you could grow cotton like this

[@abioyeridwan7869]

Waow am an agricultural student in Nigeria. My goals is to enhance food security in my country. Agric is life

[@maggygraham2218]

What do they use for plant food? Do they use chemicals?

[@apdixo9]

Manager: How Comes we are Going Through so many batteries with the 'Wand' Rita 👀😵

[@edisoncyci4499]

Ahahahahaahahah

[@sifter14]

Lmaooo

[@sofanova6542]

Plot twist: Rita: It wasn't me boss. You should ask Jake 🤠

[@TitoTheThird]

Looking for this comment! :)

[@christopherstein2024]

If I was Rita I would definitely do that. Just every 10 000 plants to keep the mood up.

[@va_bg]

Yes! And it tasted like rubber too!!!

[@OldSchoolGrowing]

What a cool set up! Just missing some LED's. They have killer rebates for farmers looking to add to their facilities!

[@Jack-r2v9b]

Yes got a few HLG's and super spreaders using the UV supplement,so much better than hps,especially in Australian climate

[@hubertkudyba2397]

94% less water, 100% less smell and taste of natural tomato. Close your eyes and try it . You will never guess what you are eating

[@thecsslife]

Poor tasting tomato is artificially ripened tomatoes that have been picked very early so they can be shipped easier. Vine riped hydroponic tomatoes taste very good.

[@jeffharmed1616]

Thanks for the brief insight into hydroponics. In a world where we are changing our environment by stripping forests to plant grain, it has become important to reverse the trend via hydroponics. We can now restore our forests and the natural environmental controls by finding more efficient ways of producing our food.

[@jeffharmed1616]

@Bitterman Yes, grain is fed to animals, but it is still deforestation-for-grain. Yes going vegan is more efficient use of land but the question is can most people tolerate that diet? Dr Sten Ekberg couldn’t tolerate a vegan diet and turned to a keto diet with 75% fat, 20% protein and 5% carbs. Some of the Keto food is protein from fish, pork, beef and chicken. IMHO The problem with vegetable protein is the mismatch with our DNA nucleotides resulting in waste.

[@ernestfultz6159]

Not really even trees need to be cut down from time to time, logging isn't the real issue clear cutting is. Just like strip mining and fracking is. Its when you go over board that creates an issue. most oil wells they frack to get the last bit out, unfortunately they also pull up radio active waste when they do. strip mining they tear up miles of land to get to the coal, but in most places the surface coal also filters the stream and lake waters of toxins and ammonia. most of this water comes out in natural springs. Unfortunately most people think solar and wind will fix all the issues. Does any one realize just how long it would take a battery or a solar panel to break down in a land fill, Or just how many trillions of tons of solar panel scraps there is world wide that they have absolutely no ideal what to do with. or all the heavy metals released into the soils from the batteries used to store the energy from solar panels. Kinda like carbon impact every ones promoting these days. most people never consider just how much carbon plants need to thrive. Its not the carbon thats the problem its that the majority of carbon globally is coming from certain major cities world wide were all the manufacturing is going. If you look at satellite photos of the earth you can pretty much guess were you will find the majority of carbon before even looking at the photos. Kinda like ozone layer you never hear any one say global warming caused by jet engines or space rockets burning up the gas's in the upper atmosphere. Out of 35 million air plane flights just in the US every year you would think some one would mention that! Hydroponics has been around thousands of years, climate control and artificial lights have not, those are the real improvements. we should also mention that wine and beer comes in metal and glass containers which are made of materials found in nature, yet all food items come in plastic which is not. even when better containers are available food providers still use plastic. Stop thinking like every one tells you to and open your eyes. Hydroponics is to dependent on the grid and manufactures.

[@tinderella2386]

Actually the Main leading cause of doforestation, especially of the Amazon is animal agriculture and raising beef in particular. There was a study done that showed that hypothetically if the world went vegan, we could not only grow enough food for the current population but the 2050 population, and on only 70% of the land currently being used for agriculture at the moment allowing Huge areas of land to be re planted. People always want to find every solution except the one that involves people not being selfish. That being said though I am a huge fan and advocate of hydroponics, especially for fruiting annuals (tomatoes, capsicum, cucumber, eggplant, zucchini ect) but our cereal crops will still always need to be grown in fields cause of the sheer volume

[@jeffharmed1616]

@@tinderella2386 Agreed. However protein is important in the Keto diet which completely reversed T2D. Synthetic protein will come to the rescue in the near future. But if we moved away from grain to greens, nuts etc there would be even more food for the 8 billion population, less T2D, and tree roots would bind soil and banish deserts. In short our desire for grain foods is killing us

[@taitjones6310]

Lmfao. Probably not the stupidest comment on this thread, but it deserves an honorary mention.

[@boon3725]

Energy and material cost seems to be too high to be sustainable

[@joys7420]

Wow its nice. Im wishing someday i can work like that. I love so much planting

[@sonyakim4403]

I grow my own and they taste fantastic. I purchase tomatoes when mine are not in season but do so kind of begrudgingly since they just don’t taste as nice.

[@AtticusDenzil]

the supermarket ones often don't taste at all lol

[@neil2043]

"This could be more sustainable than my backyard veggie garden" they have 350 people just to grow tomatoes. Sustainability is about a lot more than just saving water. It's about involving animals, trees, designing systems that regenerate ecology. If everyone left that monstrosity tomorrow. Everything will degrade really quickly. Thats's not sustainability in my opinion.

[@kevincornell1439]

water isn't an issue in every part of the world and I don't get the fixation on conserving it every where. also how is it sustainable to ship in all that fertilizer and pay the insane electric bill? this whole thing is a waist of resources but its ok because there using less water that literally falls from the sky for free smh.

[@freedomisdead9638]

I can grow 1 Kilo of tomato with lots of less than 200 liters, i wonder where he got this alarming number!

[@matthewkheyfets1309]

@@freedomisdead9638 there are people that just mulch their plants heavily and literally NEVER water. Only rain. In pots it's difficult, but again you can control the growth media. If you're in the ground, the Paul Gauci guy, whatever his last name is lol, literally puts layers of woodchipa and never waters his plants even if it doesn't rain for months. Like, I have to.water every day simply because of the pot and the soil I'm using but I mulch and it works. If I had temperature control and could pump CO2, I'm sure the plant would be doing even better than it is now. The only thing is taste. I think y'all should quit arguing about taste. The grocery store tomatoes are shiz for 2 reasons. 1. Farmers are paid by amount not taste and so they need to get as many tomatoes as fast as they can and so they pick em when they aren't ripe, and the flavor is shiz. 2. After that, the tomatoes are shipped hundreds and thousands of miles. Hardly the condition for great taste The point being, the closer a tomato is on the vine and full ripeness, the better. That's why local is better. And if they grow it organically, which can be done hydroponically with correct nutrients, then the taste and nutritional content will be great.

[@freedomisdead9638]

@@matthewkheyfets1309 Dudes, i am a farmer 😊, tomatoes represents 30% of my crops, i am producing a few tons of cherries tomatoes per year, i know a bit about tomatoes

[@markknoop6283]

@@kevincornell1439 the electricity bill smaller than the tractors use on feul just drving up and down the field.

[@aminujerome8050]

Awesome, the manual pollination will help them observe the plant closely too on a daily basis.

[@bigben9056]

and even less taste then today

[@holleey]

5:30 I don't see how it not feeling natural is being a price. also, consumers don't see any of this anyways.

[@minimars3696]

Do you really think that these plants are as healthy as the ones grown naturally in a garden? They can't even polinate themselves. Probably there are other downsides too..

[@holleey]

@@minimars3696 it somehow sounds like you anthropomorphize these tomato plants. otherwise I can't even identify any basis to your arguments. of course they are healthy. or do you see any risk of them withering? I would agree that the manual pollination by humans with the vibrating tool seems inefficient. I would hope they come up with a better, more automated solution in the future. but to the plants, of course it makes no difference whether the pollen is carried by a bee to them or transported in any other way. so again, I have no idea what downsides you are referring to.

[@rhet1016]

@@minimars3696 "They can't even pollinate themselves." That's not a "downside," it's an effect of environmental controls. There are no insects, which reduces pollination ... but it also *completely eliminates* crop destruction by pests and *completely eliminates* the need to spray insecticides. If the trade off for not injecting thousands of gallons of insecticides into our groundwater and not throwing out hundreds of kilos of food because of pest destruction is that someone has to vibrate the plants with a rod for a second and a half ... that's worth it.

[@zeealpal]

@@rhet1016 This is something I feel would be at cross-roads for those who prefer 'organic' and 'sustainable'. The artificial environment and control isn't exactly organic but the immense savings/reduction of water, herbicides and pesticides compared to organic or industrial farming is great for the environment. Plus, hydroponics uses the least land for output, whereas organic farming is the worst. Saved land can be used for natural recovery of forests or shrubland as well. Personally, I think variations and improvements with research will be the future of farming.

[@cjjenson8212]

And this is why I grow my own food, TASTE! It just seems important to me to savor my food.

[@deannabullwinkel9749]

Growing vegetables, fruit and flowers in this way could utilize unused spacious buildings such as old factories, disused Department Stores etc. reduces "Food Miles" and could include a retail shop for local people to purchase produce.

[@FarmFreshLife-k5i]

The tomato garden is beautiful. The way you grow it is very effective and I really like the way you grow it

[@mdimranhossain8426]

Where is the farm location? I wanna visit.

[@patilsaheb.8008]

Me 2

[@fahimkhanusiya1906]

Hii

[@akisstavrou6750]

How about taste?

[@gabrielkawa3477]

That's amazing stuff but it seems like the other thing these farms need to figure out is the pollination

Thank you very much from France, here aquaponics and hydroponics are still not well known. I will also make an aquaponics system much smaller but I will try a prototype and see what it will give.)

[@FarmBackcountry]

This is so exciting! I've been looking for more sustainable ways to garden, and this sounds perfect. Is this method truly better for the environment compared to traditional gardening? I'm all for saving water!

[@sashwrin]

No bees,. That seems a little sad.

[@muddywater8839]

Normal bees don't pollinate tomatoes, the pollen is inside the stamen. Wind or a particular bee that sits on the flower and vibrates it's wings do the job in nature.

[@back2flak939]

I never knew my mum liked tomatoes so much until I found one of those pollination wands in her top drawer

[@Ptitnain2]

How much synthetic fertilizer is needed to grow these tomatoes and what are the nutritional values of those tomatoes compared to the ones grown in soil?

[@dannylight9878]

You can't even compare the 2. Matrix tomatoes

[@glacialimpala]

@@dannylight9878 citation?

[@glacialimpala]

synthetic? Do you even know what constitutes fertilizers? N, P and K are elements, they're the same no matter how they reach the soil.

[@dannylight9878]

Impala just eat your greenhouse clones and I'll eat the ones with 10000 trace minerals. Thanks

[@alielouafiq2552]

"Synthetic fertilizers" is like Calling Distilled Water (H2O) and pressurized Oxygen (O2) "synthetic water" and "Synthetic Oxygene", or Salt, Synthetic Salt. Unlike our greedy food habits, plants eat absorb simple components from the soil, and they are Minerals. such as N, P, an K. What people are mistaken is that Plant need the Soil, its the Other way around. Its the SOIL that needs the Plants. The Plants feed the microbiology of the soil, help other insects grow with their leftovers, and help other plants easily break components. The most thing Plants do need is Light, CO2, and little little little water, more than anything else.

[@Caravagioo]

Alguém recebeu o link desse vídeo como email de uma empresa chamada AG hydroponic farm Canadá ?

[@johnspence8141]

You can also introduce pollinating insects...many enclosed farms do.

[@bradabel1240]

How much waist is produced from the rockwool growing media? Can Rockwool be recycled?

[@mckinleyd603]

No it’s a huge problem, not sustainable at all.

[@rogerwiseman7957]

It can be pulled apart and added into compost and worm farms

[@phazemekaniks]

No, it gets thrown in landfill and new rockwool used every cycle.

[@giathefierceyen]

Stonewool is spun from natural rock fibers, it is not fiberglass. The WHO categorizes it as bio-soluble meaning you can even eat and inhale it and the fibers will simply dissolve in your body. - Everest Fernandez

[@giathefierceyen]

Some commercial growers enjoy many successive crops from rockwool slabs by steaming them after the plants have been removed and then replanting. Smaller growers can also do this - a few slabs can be heat treated by pouring hot water through them. Solarization is also possible, as is using chemical disinfectants, although care should be taken to rinse the rockwool well with plenty of water after using these. Commercial Grodan users have the option of the Grodan recycling service, which picks up the used slabs and recycles them into new product. However, smaller growers with just a few slabs of used rockwool can recycle the material by shredding it and reusing it as a growing media, as a component of potting mixes, or by incorporating it into outside soils and gardens. - Everest Fernandez

[@mikewood8680]

Heathy soil provides a tastier tomato. Chemical water solution may produce abundance but these are flavourless. If you’ve ever eaten a garden tomato next to its greenhouse grown counterpart, you know the taste does not compare.

100% agreed.

[@jasonphillips572]

Ive stoped eating tomatoes that come from the store as they have no flavor, ill eat cherry tomatoes in the winter here and there, but grow a 100 in my garden and im sick of them by the end of the summer up here in New Hampshire

[@swapnilpawar5681]

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[@seniorbob2180]

"Is it the price we have to pay to feed a growing population?" Well, given that North American and European couples have on average less than 2 children per couple, that statement is dubious at best.

[@paulb9769]

Many people do not have the IQ to grasp this.

[@duffpaddy3996]

Well, the global south is fighting hunger with just MORE children

[@RussellD11]

Do the stems have to get that long, or can you cut them and keep them shorter? and im not talking about running the "suckers" im talking the main stem, keeping it short?

[@truthlifefishing1730]

If the ABC has its way this will have to be our future. The ABC is the pride of the fleet for shutting this country down.

[@caretakercat7176]

*giggle Plant vibrator...

[@42x3]

Wow, that puts my home hydroponic tomatoes to shame. There's no way I can let them reach 15' high. I only have 8' ceilings.. 😆

[@vinitbhosale8424]

Make a video about it..

[@vinitbhosale8424]

Make a video about it..

[@vinitbhosale8424]

Make a video about it..

[@35genre]

This is awesome, exactly what I've been searching for to compliment the books I've read. Any idea if this company can train us and act as our consultant, please? We are in Africa. Kindly respond.

[@briansanchez6699]

Only place I know that teaches these method of greenhouse growing is Ceickor in Mexcio. I am sure if you contact them they can get you in touch with someone who can help you even if it is not them. God Bless.

[@35genre]

@@briansanchez6699 ok thank you, sir. Do you have their contact details, for example e-mail address or telephone number?

[@tasneemlatib5404]

This is the number for university Ceickor

[@farmchannel1231]

I love your farm. I want to go at your farm.

[@sbri733]

Bahan apa yang digunakan dalam polibek sehingga bisa ditanam tansman

[@gvi341984]

Spain does this in mass commercial scale if anyone is interested

[@meghanarella3573]

Do the tomatoes taste good?

[@gvi341984]

@@meghanarella3573 If you ever been to Germany, France, UK or even Italy. Huge chance that tomato was harvested in these supercell green houses

[@meghanarella3573]

@@gvi341984 yeah so do they taste good?

[@gvi341984]

@@meghanarella3573 Yeah, they taste like normal tomatoes and very good as well so are the other crops grown in this area

[@meghanarella3573]

@@gvi341984 wow idk why people in the comment section say that these tomatoes lack taste lol.

[@amash2416]

Now I understand why tomatoes doesn't taste "like before". Yup, i prefer markets over stores 🤬

[@FarmersAreCool]

Food is moved around too much. Crops are harvested early stuffed in containers, sprayed with chemicals to slow ripening, instead of ripening on the vine then getting moved fresh to markets.

[@dradic9452]

Thats not ture. I used to grow Hydropoinic tomato at home and they tasted amazing. The issue it that the farms pick them to eailry, before they develop their flavour. But they need to pick them early so they last on the shelf and can handle transport.

[@marioc.4112]

No wonder the young's hate the fruits and vegetables, growing them like that surely doesn't help...perfect tomato...mother nature must be very happy that is no longer needed to provide for humans...

[@personaje27]

Is there a video explaining how to build something like that and the tech involved in each step?

[@Islam101_Uganda]

Thank God I grow them from our natural environment and organically in Uganda

[@matthewwilliam7567]

How you doing Mr Bashir ssuna

[@Islam101_Uganda]

@@matthewwilliam7567 I am great sir, how are you

[@unicornzalltheway8064]

The last line is exactly what I was thinking about - these are great options that we need to feed our ever growing population. My brain understand that we need innovation but my heart just feels like we are going further and further away from all natural processes though...

[@7gugts3d4ROBOTufyuguhihimpl9]

@John Smith are you for real or are you sarcastic?

[@AzzekaTheRealOne]

Prefer soil for full nutrition

[@ridovercascade4551]

Subhan'Allah

[@slautotube1065]

Allah didn’t anything

[@fahimkhanusiya1906]

Hii

[@tankalama4221]

hellow sir / madam This is me Tanka Lama from Nepal. I am so inspire with this tomato farming and I want to learn this process. where the farm is located? and how to reach upto this farm? Plz do you have any Idea?

[@ossamanakhla6160]

Vertical farming is very costly for energy consumption and capital. It is also causing pollution

[@ydoumus]

So that's why my imported tomatoes taste like nothing.

[@coffeepot3123]

Regular size tomatoes don't taste much in general. Now, Cherry tomatoes is the real deal my friend.

[@W4lhalla]

@@coffeepot3123 Regular size tomatoes can taste great. But normally the tomatoes you can buy are picked unripe and they are varieties that were bred for shelf life and great yields, not for taste.

[@AtticusDenzil]

@@coffeepot3123 WRONG! regular sized tomatoes are very flavorful, but you only get crap up north go more south and you get ripe amazing tomatoes, because they get more sun

[@RaghuVN]

Is it not possible to grow some bees in the same facilities so that they can stop pollinating manually?

[@angusmurray6578]

No bumble bees in Australia.

[@RaghuVN]

@@angusmurray6578 Bees can't grow in Australia?

[@bmomosaik]

@@RaghuVN not just about bees they will need to have to now take care of the bee's and also having workers with how many hives you would need in that closed space would no longer be a safe place

[@henrynnamdi1216]

All the amount of pesticide and fungicide they would use would kill of the bees

[@bmomosaik]

@@henrynnamdi1216 they dont need much pesticides as its a closed environment

[@igotatinyjob772]

interesting ! Would that be easier to have a bee hives help pollination?

[@monkeyper]

I’ve been struggling with this, but the part at 2:30 was a huge help

[@KamranB1]

Good, thanks, What about taste and vitamin? How many percents do they have less vitamin and good taste?

[@chithambararajanr219]

Natural farming always best. With native seeds not hybrid seeds.

[@mr16325]

For personal gardens yes. For profit and big farms, these are best

[@zohaibazhar9825]

Why doesn't the factory replaced lina with automated vibration system for pollination.. Sory lina darling 🤷‍♂️

[@Sl4yerkid]

by putting no soil in the title, you seem to suggest that it's magic, when just as much nutrients and energy goes into forming those tomatoes than in the ground.

[@Elementaldomain]

Not to mention it is chemical fertilizer farming.

[@mrchetta]

would like to visit this place and want to learn cultivation. where is it? how to get the permission to enter this farm?

[@NOSHEDMANTIS]

Was thinking with all that fantastic tech do they really still have to manually shake the flowers for pollination? Surely some semi-rigid wire running the length of a line of tomatoes, with each attached to it near the top of the plant, could be shaken sufficiently by a machine and pollinate them en masse?

[@wingsoflotus]

So I'm waiting for part 2 of this like...I'm waiting for someone to 'develop' pollinators like artificial butterflies...robotic ones perhaps that looks real & mimics its characteristics🤔

[@triprjt7857]

interesting pHD topic in aerospace

[@helenmalbog306]

I have seen a video but that was strawberry. They are raising honeybees inside.

[@detectiveinspekta]

Bubble bees. They do it already bit not sure up to this kind of scale

[@shamicentertainment1262]

why couldn't they just use real bees?

[@LSHoang]

@@shamicentertainment1262 Think of these greenhouses as factories. They need to standardize every steps of production to maximize the output. In order to do that, everything must be controlled effectively. It is very hard to control live insects, especially when you want other parts of the systems sealed off from those insects.

[@jjeremyhegge]

great idea. although i'd be concerned about the vast amount of eventual waste material needed to build such massive greenhouse arena's. it seems the growing media is all covered in plastic too. huge electricity needs. saves water but potentially produces as much or more waste than usual tomato ag practices?

[@shamicentertainment1262]

There will always be trade offs. The environmental cost of deforestation, pesticides, massive water use would outweigh the cost of extra waste. With proper waste management, the risks from plastic waste can be reduced. But extra carbon been pumped into the atmosphere, pesticides killing insect populations, and water being taken away from natural environments to be used to farm has a far worse impact. Same with electric vehicles. It takes a bit more carbon to create them, but once it's produced it produces far less carbon over it's lifetime, and if the grid becomes entirely renewable it would produce no emissions.

[@codyvandal2860]

@@shamicentertainment1262 There has also been some unbelievable advances in waste management technology.

[@Elementaldomain]

Rockwool production is not an eco industry. It is also not biodegradable, cannot be re-used and has plastic wrapping.

[@electro1622]

Sounds good when spruked this way but have you noticed the tomatoes of today taste like cardboard compared to how tomatoes tasted years ago when they didn't grow them like this...

[@electro1622]

@@woooooo0w no they're not... hydroponic is by far the most used method for tomatoes..

[@woooooo0w]

@@electro1622 my bad

[@DerBjjjg]

No matter how you see it but vertical farming is the future. Les and less land will be able to be used for farming as chemicals used in traditional farming is slowly making the soil we plant crops on unusable. The UN also says that in 50 years we probably have a population of 10 billion people. And 80 percent of these people will live in cities. So with less and less agrarable land it just makes sense to find ways to sustain the population with facilities like that. Also ecological it makes sense to bring these facilities near the cities. And economical it also makes sense. Through controlled environments you should be able to plant nearly everything everywhere at anytime. Without the need to ship things from far away. Also we can focus again to make crops taste better instead of them being immune to illnesses and weather conditions. Because in a controlled environment you won't have bad weather bugs or bring in illnesses. Also you won't have unwanted weeds. But exactly that could also become a problem because crops won't be able to survive outdoors anymore and may even forget how to grow crops through traditional farming.

[@SantelWood]

Iam an advocate intrested in hydroponic exotic plantes cultivation. Can you provide consultation and other technical advice

[@eddiemcdonald4720]

This is only sustainable in a HUGE area. This isn’t the future. The future is people growing their own food in their own backyards. Can’t get any more local than 20 steps of walking

[@holleey]

it's part of it. but cities won't go away. the majority of the world's population lives in cities. they do not have backyards. and here, indoor vertical farming is an amazing advantage. the prospect of being able to grow produce both high in quality and quantity in city centers, in controlled environments where we are sure to keep finding optimizations and increase efficiency, highly consistent yield all year around, entirely without pesticides or herbicides, is without question something we should all want in our future. if you have the privilege to be able to grow your own food, of course that's good, too, and should definitely be supported as well.

[@dentobean5880]

3% of military budgets could feed every person on earth. That doesn't help the bottom line. Georgia guidestones

[@jzk2020]

illuminati in da house

[@ProfTism]

That's us not ay

[@ProfTism]

@@jzk2020 au

[@PixelNerd52]

Can we get a source for that?

[@dentobean5880]

@@PixelNerd52 give me 3% of the money that the world spends on war and i will show you, unless i get killed by a blood thirsty, power hungry war criminal first. P.S. the latter would happen first.

[@bassaddict1988]

The rockwool is actually a very problematic substrate to grow on. Coconut fiber is much better.

[@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517]

RW is the most effective for commercial grow.

[@brendan100ify]

We have land and water in the country side. It's a matter of environmental management to preserve natural balance . Providing a good income for farmers and agricultural workers will in the long term help preserve the environment. And planting various species of plants will preserve the botanical diversity.

[@Drifzanarshad]

You are really serving the humanity, may-God bless you

[@infinityz7134]

The European Union should federally adopt this, it could solve so many problems, along with adopting a lot of other great stuff that only exist in its singular member states like Finland’s massive education system!

[@laurenssok2122]

Take a look in the Netherlands, old news they use this system for many years.

[@zahidkhan5532]

O my God she pollinates all plants....what a worker she is

[@stephcurry260]

Tomato is the easiest food to grow

[@anfauglit]

Actually I couldn't believe that they gonna go and have to pollinate each plant separately. But I see that it's cheaper too pay a dude 30k a year rather than attach a motor too each and every plant stem or a string used to hold the plant up right.