Kratky Tomato Nutrient Experiment FULL Video

[@jennifreesjourney9817]

Brilliant someone from U.K. !!!

[@lazycarper]

your good at growing in water, do you wait till all the water is gone before you refill them or some other amount cheers

[@5oviet518]

your middle plant was already the superior plant the first week you saw the roots since they had the most clustered together at the initial spot of growth instead of being so spaced out as the others. Great test hope to see more.

[@omioelevation7705]

Lovely to watch this. Great job and thanks for sharing. How often did you have to refill the reservoir?

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

Hello Jamie, hope your well and I have put a celery plant in my own magic mix of home made liquid plant foods and it looks quite healthy, will be doing a mix of other plants next year. Nice experiment. 🌱Happy Gardening my friend, Terry.

[@OverGrowTheUk]

Robotic Allotment Gardener that sounds good i like the idea of organics in hydroponics but i could never get it to work lol hope your well atb mate

[@gaynorthepainter]

Fantastic experiment just goes to show that dearer is not always the best

[@OverGrowTheUk]

Gaynor Bailey thanks it was truly shocking for me how little difference there was.

[@pperrinuk]

Great to see the initial growth from these - top marks. Did you track how the tomatoes developed? I understood (maybe wrongly) that plants switch the nutrients they rely on between developing leaves and developing fruit.

[@ottawadigs]

try adding an air-stone, I find it boosts growth considerably

[@OverGrowTheUk]

diggs it would but this is kratky (off the grid hydroponics) no pumps required. Thanks for watching.

[@ottawadigs]

yes, I had a brain fart sorry mate! On a side note if you want low tech (kratky aside) with no power requirements, you could use the old farmers method of a wind pump which basically sucks air down a pipe into the water releasing air bubbles using nothing more than wind power as the windmill / propeller blades spin. Assuming of course there is wind to be had

[@amberhorner7346]

Howd the fruits tuen out

[@ayevbosaomorenuwa8573]

Hiii did you add more nutrients as they sucked them away? I heard that they finish all the oxygen in the solution and then die

[@craigson5]

Cracking info!

[@OverGrowTheUk]

Craig Page thanks mate

[@MrRishik123]

did you have to add any epsom salt or stuff in addition to the premixed feeds? The poundland one seems like a simple weekend project to do. Ill probably be buying those.

[@OverGrowTheUk]

Mr Rishi The Cookie hey no just the base nutrients, for 250ml for £1 it really is good stuff. I should try ph and not ph next time see if it makes a difference 👍

[@MrRishik123]

OverGrowTheUK thanks for the quick reply. I'll try this project then. How often did you top up the nutrients solution and would this work for more simple plants like lettuce and other leafy veg.?

[@OverGrowTheUk]

Mr Rishi The Cookie i had to top up the nutrients only once after the original fill up. As long as you dont keep the water to high in the bucket all will stay fine. And yes lettuce do brilliant in these systems. Let me no how you get on 👍

[@rachaelshomemade]

Thanks for the video tip 👍🏻

[@hillbillyhydrogrower490]

Happy growing my friend

[@OverGrowTheUk]

Hillbilly hydro Grower thanks mate 👍

[@lilicesar8386]

Can we use only compost tea (vermicompost) as a nutrient? TYSVM

[@lazyh-online4839]

I've heard of using that with a touch of magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt) to balance the nutrients. I've also heard of people using just plain compost tea or worm tea before.

[@shekharbhatt5864]

Hi, Can I use soil nutrient disolved in water for Hydrophics system.??

[@lazyh-online4839]

Your typical soil fertilizer doesn't have everything that a plant needs, your plant gets a lot from the soil as well as your fertilizer so you need a special nutrient if you don't have soil for the plant to get nutrients from.

[@emilybeardallonline]

Hi, please could you tell me what the dimensions of those containers are? I'm looking for what the minimum depth for root growth that I could use to grow cordon tomatoes linked up to a much larger reservoir. I have 10 toms and 6 peppers so I'm looking for cheap alternatives to the large 5 gallon ones they seem to use for kratky in the US.

[@OverGrowTheUk]

Emily Beardall hey these are 5l pots for full grown tomatoes I’d use the 20l 5 gal buckets you guys get at the hardware stores, they should be big enough start to finish, Hope all goes well 👍

[@emilybeardallonline]

@@OverGrowTheUk Ah, I'm in the UK too, just keep googling gallons to litres and then looking at prices and thinking "yikes" at the price for the number I'm growing! I end up re-using the traditional large tomato growbags, effectively using the compost as a substrate really, so I thought why not go for hydroponics and came across the kratky method. Initial outlay will hopefully be worth it and I'm (rather sadly) excited to get started! Thanks for replying so quickly :)

[@Juiced2528]

When doing experiments you need to have 3 plants for each nutrient and 3 plants of just water as a controller.

[@OverGrowTheUk]

Juicedgaming just water is a pointless experiment, plants won’t grow with just water I’m not sure of the usefulness of that suggestion

[@Juiced2528]

OverGrowTheUK that’s why it’s called a control. Science.

[@OverGrowTheUk]

Juicedgaming yeah sure ok dearly notes 👍

[@tombryant4518]

Just water as a control. To control what exactly, how to murder plants by starving them to death?