General discussion regarding the techniques and methods used to successfully grow tomato plants in containers.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: 7B
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Does size matter
![]() I've always grown our indet. in 15G single plant and it takes up the whole brim and all. This year, I'm treating the container as that - simply a container to hold soil that will allow for water and nutrients to be *put* into the container After seeing XYZ post on how ahem, mark, grows doubles in 5G pots (granted he's got it down to a science), this year, half of my containers are doubled up. I'll added 2 extra emitters and will also be ontop of my liquid fertz. schedule. Be curious what camp do you sit in |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Mechanicsville, VA zone 7a
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Sounds good. I am in the same camp as well. 2 plants per 15-18 gallon pot with 2 emitters. Both determinate and indeterminate. Good luck..
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Wasilla Alaska
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One thing you will notice with smaller containers is mistakes. If your watering is off it is a bad deal, if your fertilizer is off you will see that too. Other than that, I found little difference in 5-20 gallon containers. This year I have many in 3 gallon, and they are loaded too.
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Join Date: May 2014
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Wow, 3 gallon containers too.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6
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Well, professional rockwool cubes are pretty small, and they grow 30feet tomatoes in them. It depends a lot on the automation that you can provide (watering especially but preferably also synthetic fertilization).
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
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I tried this with peppers in spring of '17 and continued with all plants for '17/18 season.
I stopped putting the loaf on the earthboxes so saved .5 cubic feet of mix. The earthboxes now use 1.5 cu feet vs the previous 2 cu feet. A Promix bale at $45 (including tax) now fills 4.5+ earthboxes vs 3.5. |
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