Perfect Hydroponic Bato Bucket Tomatoes!

Nathan from CropKing comes to the greenhouse to help diagnose some problems with the tomatoes. Adjustments needed with EC and amount of on off times of our Dosatron nutrient delivery system.
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[@paappan4124]

Thanks for the video, i am new to hydroponics. someone jumped into hydroponics after watching a random video on youtube. But your videos taught me lot. thanks from me and my hydroponic tomatoes, chillies, broccolis and more.

[@HomegrownPassion]

So nice of you! Glad you are off to a good start. It's really fun and satisfying growing hydroponics

[@jnm.624]

Happy Easter!!

[@HomegrownPassion]

Happy Easter my friend. I still laugh thinking about how long we have known each other. It's crazy to think about as we continue to age. Hope to see you soon. Another visit sometime?

[@qmoonwalker3847]

great to have that resource!

[@Exfog]

Super helpful, and learned a lot! Great video!

[@HomegrownPassion]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dasta4754]

Learned a lot!😍

[@anujadassanayake5732]

Greetings from Sri Lanka! Love your content and what you guys do at the farm!

[@HomegrownPassion]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@jimjam36695]

This is a great video. Thanks for your effort to show the details and that there are many steps to get to where you are. It is back and forth learning that doesn't just happen by magic. From Mobile Al, and fellow "The Lands" fan.

[@HomegrownPassion]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.

[@endthefed_1913]

Great info!

[@HomegrownPassion]

Glad it was helpful!

[@keithhilton8869]

Very interesting, as usual.

[@HomegrownPassion]

Glad you think so! Thanks for watching

[@CajunHydroponics]

Thanks for sharing this. We are far from the scale that you guys are on and the system we use is slightly different but this was some great information that we can put to use here. Thanks for sharing! Take care and have a great weekend! Gro Dat!!

[@HomegrownPassion]

Our pleasure! Have a very nice weekend also. Send over some pics sometime would like to see what you have going. Send a video and ill put it up on the end of one of ours!!!

[@CajunHydroponics]

@@HomegrownPassion wow thank you!

[@Lexieswiff]

This is very helpful info

[@HomegrownPassion]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching

[@Emeraldwitch30]

Once again a lovely, very informative video. There are always these little tweaks that need to be done. But now you have it on video for the next time you find you are having issues and you can check for these too 😉 🙂

[@HomegrownPassion]

Good point. Trying to shoot a good video I didn't really get all the things he said so watching it again help me remember. Have a nice Easter!

[@Emeraldwitch30]

@@HomegrownPassion you have a wonderful Easter too. I'm listening to KZbin and making dinner rolls and coleslaw and preparing the broccoli to be steamed right before we leave. I did but mini cupcakes from a local bakery to help support them. At least thats my story and I'm sticking to it lol. Give hugs to yourself and all the family. 🥰

[@retiredlogman]

Excellent teaching video. It is when things do not go as expected that one seems to pick up the most in depth knowledge. Some of us would find Doug's work interesting.

[@HomegrownPassion]

You are so right. Thats why we want to show the good and the bad. We are not hiding anything and want to be honest with what is going on vs only showing a made-up perfect world. We will show more of Doug's work. He is always doing something. Have a great weekend!!

[@wranther]

Great information Katy! I wonder how much of that information translates over to containers and earth grown plants too. Happy Easter Weekend to you and your families! -Bob...

[@HomegrownPassion]

Hi Bob. I think a lot. We will use this information to also measure our nutrients in the strawberry hydroponics (videos coming) Have a nice Easter weekend as well to you and your family. Thank you for watching and supporting us!

[@MurrayFCohen]

Great video. Getting your production gets better and better. Good work. Question: what is the reason you guys don’t recirculate the bato bucket nutrient solution? I have about 25 bato buckets with tomatoes and do recirculate. What are the advantages of your method?

[@HomegrownPassion]

For us to recirculate the bato bucket we would have to install another nutrient tank with monitor system pumps etc. This system has no pumps, and we don't have to worry about disease pressure with recirculating nutrients. We make sure we monitor our discharge and try to get it where it is very little. It works for us. so, advantages would be no pumps no electric, disease pressure, and ease of use.

[@jamminsammy1928]

Love watching your videos. Very informative. What is the ideal temperature range in the greenhouse and high tunnel for growing ?

[@HomegrownPassion]

Thanks for watching. We try and keep the temp around 68 for our lettuces. Asian greens can go higher. When its hot and sunny and temps can get up into the 80's so just warm temps

[@jamminsammy1928]

@@HomegrownPassion Awesome. Thank you.

[@hanstakani]

Thank you Nathan for all these tips. Very good explanations. Katy, can you share your base nutrient formula for tomatoes? How do you know how much magnesium to add? Do you have an irragtion water sample analyzed by a laboratory?

[@HomegrownPassion]

yes, we sent our source water out to a lab and then the nutrient recipe was designed based on what was already in our water, I can show it, but it won't be the same for you unless our source waters are the same.

[@hanstakani]

@@HomegrownPassion Thanks Katy. I supposed it. No need to share your water source specifications, mine is certainly different. But i would like to know your tomatoes formula . Do you change the formula with the plant stage ? ( growing, flowering, fruiting...) ?

[@mattmiller-iv9qz]

can you use a small doesiertron on a drip system

[@HomegrownPassion]

use thats what we use

[@TheOrmeClips]

Any chance you are willing to share how many l/min you use on each plant for a watering cycle. I'm not sure what size pump to buy.

[@HomegrownPassion]

Hi Michael, we are more than happy to share anything if it helps you. so, the cucumbers and beans are on the same watering schedule. They are watered every 20 minutes. for about a minute at a time. remember we use 1.5 GPH emitters which only allow a certain amount of nutrient solution into the bato system.

[@pierreshasta1480]

In Europe, the standard nutrient solution for tomatoes grown in hydroponics is between 1.8 and 2.4 EC. What is the interest of increasing the EC up to 3.5, is it for some variety of tomato?

[@johnman559]

Interesting Pierre, 👍 is that for all stages of growth or the latter stages? Katie's toms are consuming 0.6 EC, why would we give any more?

[@pierreshasta1480]

@@johnman559 Personally, I use for tomatoes an EC of 1 at the beginning, to end up at 2.2, but I found that at 1.8 the result was also very good. What is important for me is to test by myself, because depending on the way you grow your vegetables and the climate, the EC can be different. Using an EC of 0.6 for tomatoes seems low to me, do you have any serious information on this point to give me? You're right, why spend more money on fertilizer, if it's useless.

[@johnman559]

@@pierreshasta1480 Yes that makes a lot of sense Pierre😀👍👍

[@dutchmiller704]

When did you plant the tomatoes in the buckets.

[@HomegrownPassion]

About 6 weeks ago. Check out the tomato planting video

[@gardnep]

To my mind the EC is way too low at 1.6, according to the literature at least two and around 2.4 seems optimum with pH of about 6.5+. I run the pH higher because I’m afraid of blossom end rot.

[@HomegrownPassion]

The only thing about higher PH is the plant can't take up the nutrients. We were told around 2.0 on EC and 5.8 to 6.1 on PH

[@rawbsworld6604]

👍🤗 … thanks , Cropking ! 👍 without facial & vocal expression/ inflection .. only thing I’m thinking may not be construed as humor 🤷‍♂️ I don’t feel like getting Will Smithed! 💥🖐! 🤷‍♂️….some good tidbits in here … as usual …. ✌️🤙 may the 🐰 bring some beautiful 🥚’s and not leave with some lettuce in exchange! 🐣 Happy Easter!! 😀

[@HomegrownPassion]

So, like other professions in the world. Horticulturists may not have a salesman type personality. They love being in greenhouses working with plants. Mom was an accountant in past life... she loves being in the greenhouse doing her thing. Getting her to do these videos is hard enough. LOL I think you can see where I'm going. We love Nathan! He has always been a great help to us and we love his dry, down to earth personality. Thats why these type of videos are fast and to the point. Happy Easter to you as well! Thank watching and supporting us and please keep sending over comments we love your thoughts!!!

[@rawbsworld6604]

@@HomegrownPassion 😳 no no no 😝 first response thought didn’t have anything to do with mom or Nathan 👌 .. 😂 all I’ll say is it was in reference to smaller than normal fruit.. though far from being over the top some still may say pushing the family friendly atmosphere 😳🤷‍♂️ .. sorry for any confusion , my fault for for being to verbose in saying I got a good one but ain’t saying again I apologize for trying to be humorous without saying nothing 🥲✌️🤙