Rico Swazi
Active member
Good news bump
Found a variety 'Cherry Roma' that produces incredibly tasty fruits indoors with minimal lighting and heating requirements.
Room temps 68F to 72F oil filled heater, lighting is 6x23W LED (3x2700K 3x5000K) 18 hrs/day 2 small fans soil is home compost
Pics taken this morning
I have friends that grow these with more space/lighting and they are doing quite well supplying local chef(s) with a spicy sweet tomato that tastes like a tomato in the middle of winter no less. No one believes they are locally grown entirely indoor, and for some, a bit of twitching starts when solar panels are mentioned.
I am not so lucky on a fixed income and no solar (like many of you I am sure) . I pay PGE 20 bucks a month to run the room as described. That is the budget to over winter some genetics and to have a flush of maters every few weeks during the winter. Keep in mind my priority was cost and not production.
YMMV... hopefully many times over.
Outdoors they grow very fast/bushy and prone to split before fully ripe if over watered or after a modest rainfall. Not very good heat/drought tolerance .
Pics below from 2020.
Nannymouse did you try DWC? growing indoors? Let us know what you found out.
Anyone else Tomato Growers?
Found a variety 'Cherry Roma' that produces incredibly tasty fruits indoors with minimal lighting and heating requirements.
Room temps 68F to 72F oil filled heater, lighting is 6x23W LED (3x2700K 3x5000K) 18 hrs/day 2 small fans soil is home compost
Pics taken this morning
I have friends that grow these with more space/lighting and they are doing quite well supplying local chef(s) with a spicy sweet tomato that tastes like a tomato in the middle of winter no less. No one believes they are locally grown entirely indoor, and for some, a bit of twitching starts when solar panels are mentioned.
I am not so lucky on a fixed income and no solar (like many of you I am sure) . I pay PGE 20 bucks a month to run the room as described. That is the budget to over winter some genetics and to have a flush of maters every few weeks during the winter. Keep in mind my priority was cost and not production.
YMMV... hopefully many times over.
Outdoors they grow very fast/bushy and prone to split before fully ripe if over watered or after a modest rainfall. Not very good heat/drought tolerance .
Pics below from 2020.
Nannymouse did you try DWC? growing indoors? Let us know what you found out.
Anyone else Tomato Growers?