Hey guys, Kevin here with an update on our first Cyco Nutrient Tomato grow...

     It's been a little over three months, and our plants are going crazy. On 5 plants, there are about 50 little green tomatoes forming, and at least twice that many flowers yet to open. The plants are 4 ½ feet tall and some of the stalks are three inches in diameter. I had to hang a horizontal pole from the ceiling to tie the plants up to, as they started to sag under the weight of all our little fruits.

     The leaves and stalks of each plant are incredibly resilient, probably due to the large amount of silica in the regime. Lush is probably the best word to describe this grow. There have been no hiccups, no deficiencies, no pests. The plants have kept a very steady pace during the generative phase, and as reproduction comes underway, there is little sign of them slowing down.

     I do believe that something in the mix is keeping internodal spacing relatively short, as these plants were vegged under a 600 watt  HPS light. Normally tomatoes can tend to be a little leggy; healthy, but leggy, under HPS lighting. It could be the nutes, it could be the particular cultivar, I'm not sure yet. I'll probably try a different type next time to see if the results are the same.

     There is a small bunch of Brown-Eyed Susans in the AeroFlo with the tomatoes, overflow from an ebb and flood system, that are looking great as well. They did stretch a bit, but it was due to the larger plants shading them out. I was a little concerned that I would fry the delicate plants by feeding them the same schedule that the much larger, heartier plants were being given, but even at 1600 ppm, they haven't so much as lost a single leaf.

     Cyco nutrients have earned the neHydro Seal of Approval, an accolade that certainly doesn't get handed out to just any bottle.

Posted by Kevin