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Farhad A

Just read a post on Facebook and a guy was so excited to have bought a Tiny Tim tomato plant half the size of the one in the picture for $29.

I usually grow between 20-40 of them each season. giving away a lot of them, maybe I should start selling them :)

It is amazing that I bought my first one in a discount section of a shop for 15 euro, it was the most expensive plant I have ever bought and I fell in love with it and been growing 100s of them since then.

#Plants #Tomatoes #TinyTim #Gardening #ContainerGarden #GrowOwnFood #GrowYourOwn

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Farhad A

Another day, Another experiment trying to see what gives me the best hydroponic results growing Tiny Tim Cherry Tomatoes!

Used the last 2 water bottles I had saves. Glued their 2 caps together and made a big hole through the 2.

Painted the full 5L bottle with black paint and covered it with aluminum foil, made a hole on the side and solved in a USB water pump (from the many many items I had bought to bring to Ghana many years ago) and cut the other bottle's too 30% and screwed the 2 together.

The water pump is right now connected to power plug, and slowly pushes water up to the top that is filled with mix of 10% perlites and 90% vermiculite, covered on the top with clay balls.

The plant is one of the last surviving tiny Tim tomatoes I had and wasn't growing well inside the IKEA växer system for some reason.

So I will be testing this, and other system compare the taste, number of tomatoes produced and maybe the cost of fertilizer.

I just need my ass to sit down and write the code for ESP32 system to control all of these using solar panel or else it will be wires all over the place.

Not it's time to relax and enjoy the last beer I brought back from Sweden!

#Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #France #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants #TinyTim #Tomatoes #DIY #Recycle #Reuse

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad A

Mechanical part of the mission accomplished.

Finished the wooden box from discarded fruit box on the street, added 2 black plastic bags that I had since I moved, put the 2 x 5L water bottles with their Tiny Tim tomato plants in them, used a T split for the airpump and tested it to make sure the flow was enough to keep the roots hydrated preventing them from root rot and will cover the box with aluminum foil before adding the solar panels and voltage regulators into the system.

Already picked 5 cherry tomatoes from the larger plant and the smaller one has some 20+ flowers which I'm hoping to turn into juicy tomatoes soon.

Took longer than expected, but I'm happy about the results.

Next, getting the electrical parts ready.
#DIY #TinyTim #Tomatoes #CherryTomatoes #SolarPanel #AirPump #DWC
#Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #France #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants

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Farhad A

My first tomatoes of 2023 are probably going to be from hydroponic!

Lost most of my Tiny Tim tomatoes to soil gnats and have (once again) only 4 plants. W in hydroponics and 2 in self watering planters.

The one in Kratky is doing very well and it's healthy and clean roots are reaching down to where the nutrient rich water is. I may have to find a slightly bigger reservoir as the plant is very thirsty with all the tomatoes growing.

Exciting to see the new season is finally starting to work after a bad start with bugs and silly mistakes.

#Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #France #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants #Kratky #Tomatoes #TinyTim

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Farhad A

One Tiny Tim Cherry Tomato in, 3 more to go.

This one is from my earlier experiment with growing tomatoes in different medium. Since it was growing in clay balls, it was easy to remove the old medium and put it in a mesh cup with perlite for her new home in the Dutch bucket unit.

The other 3 were in soil, so it takes time to clean up their roots, disinfect them with hydrogen peroxide and then place them in a 5cm mesh cup.

#Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #France #Hydroponics #GrowOwnFood #Plants #GrowYourOwn #allotment #DutchBucket #TinyTim #CherryTomatoes

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Farhad A

Mini Kratky Tiny Tim Tomato is having some problems!

First of all, it is growing much more on one side making it hard to keep in place.

Second, my silly laziness let the algae grow on the roots and the wick of the plant so i have to wash it off now.

Going to put some extra reinforcement on the side and put aluminum foil around the bottle to prevent the light to get in and cause algae growth.

#hydroponic #TinyTim #Tomato #Kratky #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #GrowOwnFood #France #Antibes

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