What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. My name's Kevin and today

we're talking about a beginner's guide to growing tomatoes in a hydroponic system.

So what we're going to talk about is first of all a general overview of tomatoes and how they grow.

Second of all, how should you grow them in a hydroponic system. What should you use?

Third of all, the ideal conditions

for growing a tomato hydroponically.

Because we control the environment,

we have a lot more ability to adjust these factors.

So we're gonna talk about the best factors and then

finally we'll talk about some deficiencies and some of the life cycle issues that

are surrounding tomatoes so first what's the deal with tomatoes? How do we grow these guys? A lot of people have struggles

with them, whether in soil or hydroponics. So I'm going to run through just some basics.

Tomatoes, solanum lycopuricum.

They suffer from a bunch of different diseases.

I'm sure you know this, pests and diseases.

They've got verticilum, fusarium, nematodes, spyter,

aphids, damping off the tomato hornworm, the mosaic virus, and more.

However, if you're growing it in a hydroponic environment, you have the luxury of controlling much of that environment,

especially if you're growing indoors.

So you shouldn't run into too many pests or disease issues.

Okay, now, some of the more hydroponic focused information. A lot of growers want to know, hey, just give me the numbers. What does, what do my tomatoes love and I'm just going to give them that thing? So here we go.

The ideal conditions for growing a tomato. The EC or the electrical conductivity

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