Hello @opensourcegardens can you please help me find some tomato sorts and seeds that can be used in hydroponics indoor gardens that grow max between 30 and 40cm in height?
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@tpheine @opensourcegardens I'm not aware of seeds meeting both requirements. I'd start with any organic seeds from pure bushy plants and a trial-and-error approach. It may also depend on your hydroponics setup (light conditions and the like)...
In any case I'd love to hear about your experiences....
@organictraveller
I had to replace my first Cocktail Tomato Rotkäppchen plants, as they grew more than 80cm and broke. The artificial lights are at 40cm height. Anyway, I have ordered Tumbling Tom seeds, as recommended by @wyliecoyoteuk , Fuzzy Wuzzy and Yellow Canary. Let's see if this will work.
@tpheine @wyliecoyoteuk God luck! I wasn't successful with my Tumbling Toms, most likely bad luck with the seed charge (they would not germinate, quite unusual for tomato seeds). But the tomatoes of the only plant were delicious!
@wyliecoyoteuk @tpheine The bushy tomatoes which work well for me in smaller pots on the balcony are 2nd generation of a plant I bought at an organic farmers' market w/out knowing the variety. But I could harvest some seeds and s-mail.
@organictraveller @tpheine here are photos of my tumblers and Ola Polka. they are nearly finished now, but I have been picking tomatoes since may.
@organictraveller @tpheine Whoops, Actually June, sorry.
@organictraveller @tpheine
Some tomatoes are hybridised, in which case the seeds that you take from the adult plant may be sterile, or if they do grow, they are not true to type.
@wyliecoyoteuk @tpheine So long taking seeds from organic tomatoes worked nicely for me, but this year I probably had one plant from a hybridised variety: beautiful plant, flowering nicely - but the fruits would not develop at all.
@wyliecoyoteuk @tpheine For the sake of completeness: That #tomato plant was indeed an infertile #hybrid: Its few small fruits did not contain a single seed :/
@organictraveller
Thanks for the information.
@wyliecoyoteuk
@organictraveller @tpheine I actually bought mine as established seedlings because I had germination failures. In fact 2 seedlings cost about the same as a packet of seed.