Nick's Heirloom Cherry Toms in a Farm+ (TERMINATED)

So if you look back at the second picture in my last post you can see that the leaves were curling under a bit on the Golden Harvest plant. When I got home today I noticed that this was the case for both plants and a bit more obvious than what was happening in that photo.

From what I’ve read on the web I believe my Mylar panels are to blame. I think there’s too much heat from the low lights/Mylar and not enough air circulation because the panels make the Farms enclosed. I suspect this is also why my lettuce isn’t growing quite as quickly as I’d expected it to.

Tonight I removed the panels on the side of the tomato Farm where these two plants live. I also removed all of the panels on the Farm with the lettuce plants. I suspect that in the future I may only be able to use them during the germination/seedling stage.

Guess we’ll be wearing our sunglasses at dinner now. 😎

Looking a little better this morning, but we’ll see what a day or two without the panels on does for it. They both look a little squat to me, but I have nothing to base that on since this is my first time around. If they are, I’m wondering if that’s heat related too.

I’d thought about trying those but I liked the idea of the panels being modular.

Still not sure if Heat was the issue for these plants yet. The jury is out. Going to wait at least a full week to see how they look before I say it’s a real problem.

Maybe. Sleep isn't so much an issue as they're on the first floor and everyone sleeps on the second floor.

I find that I don't actually mind the lights that much. I was just trying to be courteous to people eating in our dining room. I suppose I can just reserve them for when we have dinner guests or I feel like being kind to my children.

Try moving it to a different pod.  Sometimes location is everything.  That may not fix it IF something is wrong but it may help 

I know I have had pods grow slower or not look well and I move them and then they flourish.  Worth a shot maybe?  Plus it is a different variety of tomato.  Then again I have never grown them so I am of no help at all.  Sorry.

I woke up this morning and just did not like the look of the Golden Harvest plant. I went ahead and moved it to a different pod in spite of saying I’d wait a bit.

When viewed next to its neighbor there is clearly a problem.



And the leaves have some yellowing on the edges.



I’ve raised the lights slightly just to make sure it’s not burning the plant, but I don’t think that’s it. PH is at 6 currently. I don’t think the nutes are an issue or I’d expect the other plant to be in trouble as well.

I’m really not sure what to do with this one right now.

Just like my other toms...

Out of an abundance of caution I just did another R&R and switched to AG nutes for this one. I also an an extra gallon of water through the tank in between the rinse and the refill to try to flush it out as much as possible.

I’m not confident I’m using the GH nutes correctly so We’ll see if this corrects the curl.

Fed with 24ml of AG nutes during the R&R.

No improvement here. In fact I’m starting to see spots on the lower leaves of the previously healthy plant. (Marked with a red line.)

Hi Nick,
I’m sorry I somehow missed this thread when I was last on.  I was going to say that at first the drooping looked to me more like simply a different growth habit rather than drooping or poor health. But I see your subsequent posts and concern. Hang in there though, it may be just fine.  I’d clip off those lower leaves though. No sense in continuing to give them your food’s limited energy.  Between that and the R n R and placement change it may do the trick.  Fingers crossed!  Let us know!