Nematode's not yet epic Hydroponic thread

[Nematode]

6 plants sprayed with edta solution prepared with distilled water, and a couple drops of dawn dish soap to stick.

All plants getting chem grow, yara calcium nitrate, KNO3 and MGSO4, something close to akmarks formula.
Ph will take a while to dial in to 6.2

[mashermike]

Controller looks good. I hope it goes well for you with the fert changes. My experiences with 2-4-d (and Roundup) is once a tomato shows damage, it's a steady deterioration to death.

[Nematode]

Plant in general seem happy on the new mix.
Edta spray has no effect yet that I can see.
All plants are affected with very close truss spacing, and some degree of growth irregularity in the leaves.

Least affected by herbicide
Sun gold
Sun sugar
Juan flamme
Lime green salad
Indian stripe
Pbtd
Dester
Neves azorean red


Most affected
Fish lake
Kosovo
Stump of the world
Kbx
Maglia rosa
Bloody butcher
Anna russian

[Nematode]

Things are growing along,

Controlling moisture levels in the coir bags is not as easy as I had hoped.
The peppers were way too wet, I turned off the feed completely and they went a week without wilting. Feed is back on, bags will be soaked in a few days and ill turn it off again till they droop /repeat. Hopefully peppers will be ok with that. I could dial down the feed so they use all the water, but then will have to flush anyway as salts build up.
Note to self: perlite = good substrate for daily watered peppers.

In my experience perlite cannot be over-watered, this makes it a good substrate especially if you have different plant types and sizes on one hydro system.


Tomatoes are faring better, but once they came out of their 2-4-d funk, they bolted full vegetative mode, so turned down the oz/day and upped the EC level hoping to slow them down.
Not being able to effectively control the root zone moisture could mean watery tomatoes this year. yuck. Running them a little dry makes them yummy. Still some time to figure that out.

Lots more tomatoes than last year out there, its not perfect but maybe good enough

Still learnin'

Nematode

[Nematode]

Pics from the garden

[Ricky Shaw]

Some good fruit sets, and nice to see some of the affected plants recovering.

[AKmark]

Nice Nematode, the peppers love that stuff too.

[Nematode]

More pics
Like green salad is freighted with fruit. Leaves are hiding most of it. Hope I can tell when they are ready.
Early blight is taking a toll here worse than I can remember. Hasn't touched LGS.
Maglia rosa is tortured by something, but loaded also.
Believe it or not the garlic is 6' tall.
Its semi-hydroponic, hand watered not very often with nutrient solution. Never got around to setting up the drip.

[PureHarvest]

Kudos for not giving up.
I'm struggling through stinkbugs and heat index above 100 for that last week.
My plants are struggling.
Glad you will be able to taste some fruits for your steadfastness...

[Nematode]

Pretty good fruit set.

Terrible aphids this year, I firgot my sweet alyssum and french marigolds

[Nematode]

When I look at others tomatoes all I can see is how perfect they are,
When I look at mine I see the defects. Oh my poor children.

[Nematode]

The countertop is a slow motion parade of fruits.
Least ripe at the camera end of the shot, most ripe at the far end. I'll do a rough sort by feel once or twice a day.
Funny system but works for me.

[PureHarvest]

Looks really nice from where I'm sitting.
Enjoy!

[MissS]

All that I see is an abundance of beauty, perfect in every way.

I sure wish that my counter held that much "defect".

Enjoy the earths bounty...

[Nematode]

Thanks for the kind words.
I am enjoying them very much.
Mrs N took the shot, it somehow shows the bounty in a very favorable light.