Hanging 5 gallon bucket question

[DoubleJ]

I have Sophies Choice and Rutgers in a hanging 5gl bucket. Is this OK?

[robin303]

Does it get sun?

[ContainerTed]

One bucket or two? Upside down or rightside up?

Ted

[DoubleJ]

Yes it gets sun

one bucket right side up. holes are drilled into the sides and a plant is growing on either side.

Not so much worried about the size as I am with the choice of plants. They are both supposed to be small determinates. Just wondering if they were a good choice

[ContainerTed]

On your mark!!!!

Get set!!!!

Water, Water, Water.

Ted

[dice]

I might grow something like Rutgers in a 5-gal bucket with
the bottom cut out of it (or lots of big, 1" holes drilled in
the bottom), so that it can root down into the soil below it.
That way the fertilizer, etc, can be placed with quality
soil or container mix in the 5-gal bucket, but the plant can still
get water from the soil below it in hot weather once the roots
get that deep (sort of a one-plant raised bed).

I do not think I would try Rutgers with another plant in a 5-gal
planter. You will be watering every day, sometimes more than
once, when the weather warms up, and the plants/fruit will
likely be undersized. Blossom End Rot could be an issue, too
(drying out and not able to take up enough calcium, which has
to be in solution for the roots to absorb it). I had one Sophie's
Choice plant in a container that size last year. That seemed to
be enough space for it. (Rutgers is a bigger plant, even the
short, semi-determinate versions like Rutgers Select or Rutgers
Improved.)

So, no, I would not expect both in one hanging planter to be
a success. Maybe you could put a basil plant on the other
side of the Sophie's Choice planter (basil seems to discourage
some kinds of tomato pests) and turn it so that they both get sun.