Hey everybody, for some reason i stopped getting updates on the thread(?). Anyway, I was going to post some updates and mention that algae is a problem but it looks like its already being discussed hah.
I had algae by the end of the first week. It wasn't a huge amount, but enough to see it in the flood tray and forming on the hydroton. Rather than use an algaecide or anything, I've just cut some cardboard to fit around the base of the plants. Nothing fancy, just something to block a larger portion of light and easily removable. Using cardboard instead of algaecide was more of a financial/laziness decision than anything. I'm not planning on smoking my tomatoes, so the less I have to do the better
Today is the end"ish" of week 2. So, the tomatoes have been in the system for 14 to 16 days. From what I can tell the algae hasn't hurt my tomatoes, they seem fine. I haven't changed my flood cycles or light cycles at all because I want to keep as many variables from changing as I can. I'm doing this as sort of a controlled experiment to gather data.
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