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1-5 Indoor tomato update
Jan 5, 2009 | 7:25 PM PST
Tags: tomato , HPS , Metal halide , flat screen training , ScrOG , indoor , indoor gar

1-5 Update

Holidays are over and it is back to work. The tomatoes are growing well and are starting to go through our screen. The supercropping and high light levels are still keeping the plants very stocky. This helps in our overall strategy as well. Short internodal gaps create several suckers below the screen and close to the root system which is favorable for good nutrient flow. The plan is to have the crown and 3 suckers per plant weaving in the poultry netting. All other suckers will be removed. Both plants already have 3 suckers and the main vine, so everything else is removed as it develops. Here are a couple of pictures showing the height above the netting and overall plant size.

  

                                ^Can you believe the leaf on the big boy lower right it has to be a foot long^

We have such good vegitative growth, we will add a HPS light to our mix and start pushing the plants to flower. That is a combination of HPS light, flowering hormone and potasium and potash in our fertilizer. We will see if  we can get a few of the yellow gems to show up over the next few weeks.

 

Larry