This was very useful to me. I tried doing Kratky outdoors and it was a nightmare, at least where I am. Going to do it indoors now, but with a grow light that I bought. I was thinking of how I could support the plants and I saw this vid. And I actually have a shelf like this one not in current use, and it is even better because it has detachable shelves, and only the casing remains, so I can train the plant inside the actual shelf. Thanks! Question about topping: I thought they said that is a death sentence for indeterminate tomatoes. Does topping make it so that they will only produce fruit once and then stop, or could you have them continually produce fruit after topping?
I am not entirely sure, because that particular tomato plant did not survive the mildew and lack of sun indoors in the winter anyway! I haven't had much luck with pests and diseases, and haven't been spending much time and effort on plants in the past year or so. As far as I know, trimming / topping helps stress the plants and conserve energy for fruits; I'm not sure why that would be much different from removing the "suckers" stems anyway.
@@JeffFortinTam Plants need air flow as well. You need to point a fan at them every now and then. And I don't think placing them near a window will provide for their needs if they're indoors. You need grow lights to supplement it. For pests I just use neem oil. I had similar bad luck with my heirloom tomatoes that I planted outdoors, and I am in a tropical country. Despite the weather being way too hot for tomatoes, there was, paradoxically, not enough sunlight per day. It was intensely hot and humid but there was too much shade in our yard. As for topping, I was given to understand you're supposed to top determinate tomatoes but not indeterminate. Because determinates will continue producing fruit for that entire season if you top it, but indeterminates will stop once you top it. This is because new flowers can only form from new growth/sections of the vine. The old vine that flowered will never flower again. So if you top it, you will only be able to ripen whatever fruit/flowers are already there but you will have no more fruits. Again, this is not true for determinate types.
I liked the video because the shelf+tomato setup is very cute. But honestly if you're gonna spend 50 dollars on equipment you're way better off doing something else.
It sure is a bit more expensive than just building shelves on a wall or putting pots on the floor, but in my case I really wanted something that I could relocate at any time (because my space needs to be multi-use) and, well, I also needed shelves to stock various things. I didn't show that in the video, but I currently have two big heavy toolboxes in it, and sometimes I'll put some random office stuff on it. I can hang things on the sides with hooks. It helps me reduce the amount of clutter on the floor in my ever-changing environment ;)
I find the arrangement cute. Good to have greens in your apartment during grey and cold winter months.
This was very useful to me. I tried doing Kratky outdoors and it was a nightmare, at least where I am. Going to do it indoors now, but with a grow light that I bought. I was thinking of how I could support the plants and I saw this vid. And I actually have a shelf like this one not in current use, and it is even better because it has detachable shelves, and only the casing remains, so I can train the plant inside the actual shelf. Thanks! Question about topping: I thought they said that is a death sentence for indeterminate tomatoes. Does topping make it so that they will only produce fruit once and then stop, or could you have them continually produce fruit after topping?
I am not entirely sure, because that particular tomato plant did not survive the mildew and lack of sun indoors in the winter anyway! I haven't had much luck with pests and diseases, and haven't been spending much time and effort on plants in the past year or so. As far as I know, trimming / topping helps stress the plants and conserve energy for fruits; I'm not sure why that would be much different from removing the "suckers" stems anyway.
@@JeffFortinTam Plants need air flow as well. You need to point a fan at them every now and then. And I don't think placing them near a window will provide for their needs if they're indoors. You need grow lights to supplement it. For pests I just use neem oil. I had similar bad luck with my heirloom tomatoes that I planted outdoors, and I am in a tropical country. Despite the weather being way too hot for tomatoes, there was, paradoxically, not enough sunlight per day. It was intensely hot and humid but there was too much shade in our yard. As for topping, I was given to understand you're supposed to top determinate tomatoes but not indeterminate. Because determinates will continue producing fruit for that entire season if you top it, but indeterminates will stop once you top it. This is because new flowers can only form from new growth/sections of the vine. The old vine that flowered will never flower again. So if you top it, you will only be able to ripen whatever fruit/flowers are already there but you will have no more fruits. Again, this is not true for determinate types.
I liked the video because the shelf+tomato setup is very cute. But honestly if you're gonna spend 50 dollars on equipment you're way better off doing something else.
It sure is a bit more expensive than just building shelves on a wall or putting pots on the floor, but in my case I really wanted something that I could relocate at any time (because my space needs to be multi-use) and, well, I also needed shelves to stock various things. I didn't show that in the video, but I currently have two big heavy toolboxes in it, and sometimes I'll put some random office stuff on it. I can hang things on the sides with hooks. It helps me reduce the amount of clutter on the floor in my ever-changing environment ;)