Hydroponic tomato- plenty of flowers, no fruit,?
Hi, this is my son’s second foray into hydroponics- he grew lettuce- a bit slow and the slugs found them- not entirely successful. He now has one tomato plant in perlite, using a standard hydroponic formula. It’s growing against his bedroom window, strung up to the gutters to allow it to grow tall. It doesn’t get a full day of sunlight as the 5 foot fence is 1.5m away, the tomato faces East. It looks a healthy plant and has plenty of flowers, but they eventually brown off without setting any fruit. I feel it needs more light (trying to convince my son to use mirrors!) and I’m thinking about bringing flowering potplants nearby- I haven’t seen insects on the tomato, even though there are plenty in the veggie garden nearby. I’m wondering about the NPK ratio- does it need to change for fruiting? He has a cucumber vine growing and fruiting in a separate outfit but same place and system.
Thanks for reading this, hope someone can help
IT sounds like the flowers aren’t getting pollinated.
I’d go ahead and try and plant flowers to try and attract some bees. Even plant some marigolds, they’ll flower and keep away bad bugs too.
Good luck.
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