Cherry Tomatoes with a Twist!

3/14/11 minutes after transplant

Some of the most common vegetables grown using hydroponics is tomatoes. So of course we are growing our tomatoes, but not without our share of drama. We’ve had our tomatoes growing for awhile and found that they were taking over our “garden world”.

3/18/11 Nutrient Overdose :-(

We decided it was time to transplant our tomatoes into their own container. After transplanting the tomatoes, we decided to create a trellis out of some twigs fromthe cherry orchard.
Soon after the drama of transplanting and putting up a trellis, we found that they immediately went into shock, or so I thought. It was actually a case of too much love. I gave my prize tomato a HUGE dose of nutrients which was meant for my 10 gallon DWC.
This means I super charged my tomatoes
with 10 times the amount of nutrients it should have had. Now it was time for emergency treatment. We gave the tomatoes a quick bath in distilled water, treated it with hormones to jump start the recovery process and put back into it’s container. Since I didn’t want to contaminate my tomatoes by using the same twigs, I replaced them with fresh twigs from the cherry orchards.


Guess what? We now have cherry trees growing with our tomatoes! That’s right the cherry tree twigs have bloomed and now leaves are growing. So we have cherries

3/26/11 Cherry leaves

growing with our tomatoes, giving a whole new twist to cherry tomatoes. Our tomatoes have a ways to go but I think they will recover.

3/26/11 Tomatoes and Cherries