I want to grow a hydro tomato plant on my porch with a 5gal bucket, air pump (outdoor plug), netpot lid for 5gal, and some growrocks. Im currently sprouting some tomato seeds in rapid rooters.

Think It will do ok?

any suggestions?

i imagine it would as long as you changed the water and you might wanna get a sandstone for more oxygen in the water and get the right nutes you should be fine make sure u got the ph right i dont know what it should be for tomatos tho...i would get it at 5.8 or 6.0 and keep it there. good luck

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Thanks! anyone else

I think it would work that's exactly what I use for my grow and it's very easy. Just have to worry about changin the water.

here check this youtube out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxr1PZ7dqt8
it a smaller version of what you want to do possiblly its a small bubbleponic system in a coffee can any way hope it helps

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Thanks for the help thats basically what Im going to do

http://vimeo.com/4380578

Yes, it will work, and work WELL, as you will see from that video link of my own stuff.

great job!

ph should be around 5.0 - 5.5 for tomatoes I think, they like the acidity. the rest is up to you. I got a 5gal DWC in my backyard myself.. not a big fan of tomatoes though, so I'm seein how big I can get sunflowers

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I use sunflowers for removing toxic heavy metals from soil and for soil conditioning. Best in the ground, I say. They'll get large in a hydro bucket BUT you need to add silica or they'll have weak stems that can't support such a huge flower head.