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  • Great tips, thank you for the video.

  • Gnats help indoor pollination.

  • I want to get a head start getting my tomato plants before putting them in my outside garden.. good info

  • Wow!! that was some awesome information, we learn something new everyday

  • Bravo!

    I love it, way to go!

  • I just started growing some tomatoes indoors and they sprouted in 3 days! But now they have fallen over the next day what should i do. Are they ok?

  • @Drdjjk I would bury them up to their leaves to sturdy them. Make sure they're not too wet. Give them a warm environment and bright light.

  • Thanks for the video , I am trying to grow veggies indoors, I'm trying tomatoes , basil, cilantro from seeds, the corn will go to my mother to plant in her yard if I can get them to grow

  • Do florescent lights actually work as a substitute for sunlight? My dorm room only has western facing windows, so I only get actual sunlight in the afternoon. Should I leave my lights on in for the morning?

  • @salamdawud Leaving your lights on will definitely help.

  • is it a cherry tomato plant

  • I pollenate mine with a Q-Tip and it works great...

  • Weed makes me happy

  • If you love your vetable gardens say No to Codex Alimentarius.

    Great vid. You can grow all vegetables in doors. Same way. Great for city people to get some fresh veggies.

    Thanks for this.

  • I don't understand how you are pollinating with your finger? I love the fact that you can grow inside during the winter. We love vegetables and at the stores you just can't get that freshness. Thanks for the video!

  • @krushing11 I just rub the inside of the flower with a finger sort of like a bee would. Very unscientific and works great.

  • How do you pollinate with your fingers? I'd love to try your method this winter at my house in Indiana.

  • I love the smell of tomato plants too!!!!!!!! Gardening is so much fun and you get tons of awesome food!!!

  • COOL!

  • How will you get tomatoes indoors - without pollination?

  • @cmcneill I pollinate then with my finger. It's really simple and works 100% :)

  • Cool thanx for the video I tilled my garden and I had about 40 tomato plants come up from the rotten tomatoes. I wanted to preserve the plants and did so with success. Now I have 24 baby plants and will be growing them in my garage this winter I am excited to know its not that hard thanx again

  • Cool! thank you for responding so quick, almost did a double take, lol. Like you I also hate the winter coldness and in Arkansas all it is is rain and grey gloom. I'm looking forward to having something green and growing in the house to remind me winter doesn't last forever.

  • Hey, just found you the other day and and I'm already addicted, you're more entertaining than TV! I was wondering if your hydra tomato technique would work with two different species of tomato? I've got some Roma seedlings and some yellow tomato seedling at the same age. Also would this work in a pot? I have a large 24inch clay pot and plenty of compost from mowing and raking the lawn. 

  • @sunnybunny230 Yes you can definitely plant more than one type of tomato in the same pot. Using your compost is a great idea. Go for it! :)

  • Hey I just moved my tomatoe plant (not quite mature yet) inside for the winter along with 3 young pepper plants. I have been trying to find the right light for it and it has just been exhausting because I know it's not worth it to buy a legit grow light set up. do you think 2 100W incandescent grow bulbs and a small 5000 k florescent would be good for them?

  • @hassman789 I wouldn't suggest using incandescent bulbs. They produce the least amount of light per watt. Stick with CFL bulbs. You get more light for your buck. The main thing is bright light. Give them the brightest light you can within reason.

  • @Praxxus55712 Hey thanks for the reply! I thought about it and realized that wasn't a good Idea. So I am just going to get some fluorescent tubes and see if they do the job. Thanks!

  • I like that plant in the background.

  • I just clipped a bunch of branches from a grape tomato plant to try this out. If the plant is not a determinate, do you think you can put this thing in the ground in May and have a super long growing season?

  • @scottj719 If you keep it growing and healthy all winter, along with clipping it back to keep it from getting weak and spindly I can almost guarrantee you'll have one heck of a surprisingly long and productive tomato season next year. go for it! :)

  • @Praxxus55712 Is clipping it back a constant thing or does removing the top at a certain stage train it to "bush" out for the rest of it's life? The ones I planted in doors look sad and pathetic at the moment.

  • @scottj719 You'll need to clip it as it grows out of the form you want. It has an amazing capacity to send out more and more side shoots.

  • @Praxxus55712 Thanks for the tips, It'll help maintain some MN winter sanity. If I can get some cherry tomatoes and maybe some peppers happening arround January that'll help.

  • @Praxxus55712 put 5 or so inside and all but 1 is yellowing or shriveling. I put them in about 3/4 loose peat, 1/4 hummus/compost. Do you recommend anything in how you cut the ends? I angled it like a quill to hopefully give some additional surface area from which to root out. What about putting the cutlings in miracle grow water for a few days before planting, maybe that would give them a chance to re-hydrate and keep them strong enough that more would make it.

  • @scottj719 Excessive peat moss will cause the soil to be acidic. Acidic soil is not good for tomato plants. You can root the clippings by tossing them in a glass of water, then plant them in soil. Regular potting mix is perfect for the clippings. How you cut the ends isn't important. Clipping off the leaves is. Leave only the top tiny cluster of leaves. Cut off the rest. The clipping can't support the extra leaves while it roots. Keep out of direct sunlight for a week. That's it. :)

  • I too live Pretty far north, so this will be cool to try this, this year.

  • Did they bare? Did you bring a bee hive indoors? Or did you polinate them? Or do they need polination?

  • @SidneyBou I pollinated them with my finger. It was easy and they produced a good crop indoors.

  • Hey that's very smart! I never thought it could be done like that! I'm planning on growing my own tomato plant soon... But I live in California I think above 70 degrees ft is perfect for gardening any types of produce. Please correct me if I'm wrong I'm just getting in to planting my own fruits and Vegies :) Oh will it be okay for me to post your video on my facebook wall?

  • @79drumstick Your temps are perfect for growing veggies. By the way, it's fine with me if you post my videos on your facebook page. Thanks Mr Drumstick! :)

  • thänks.nice (:

  • I'm wondering if you were able to produce tomatoes. If so, how was the plant pollinated? Do you have a bee hive in your home as well? Just kidding. I enjoyed your video and will try this in my home this fall.

  • @Nagamangos Oh yes the plants definitely will produce tomatoes even during the winter. Pollinating them is as simple as touching the inside of each flower daily with your fingertip and then another flower and another. This spreads the pollen to each flower from pollen picked up on your finger. The production will be far less than a summer outdoor plant but it sure does brighten up a window and your day when the snow is flying, it's cold and you're stuck indoors. :)

  • Keep filming, I love your vids, I hafe learned a lot.

    I also just love the smell of tomato plants.

    Thanks, I am going to grow some in my Garden window it should work just fine,.

    Thands

  • i discoverd you can grow anthing at winter in the house

  • ja... was not alot you said .. it is very nice to do this ,, i had 2 tomato plants also but they die... but is nice to do this ....

  • u r a happy guy.....love your ideas

  • Love your tomato tips! Definitely trying some of them! So if I wanted to speed along a second planting of tomatoes could I take one of my tomato seedlings at the point that it's ready to transplant, and just cut off a bunch of suckers, and plant them? Would that kill the original seedling? Thanks! BTW, if you do grow corn indoors, try Blue Jade, from Seed Savers Exchange. It grows 3' high, & supposed to be the only sweet corn that can be container grown .I'm trying it this year, outside.

  • @SimplyNaturalHomestd Using suckers for transplants is a great idea and works perfectly. It won't harm the original plant at all.

  • Thanks for the giving, friend. That info may really help me one day.

    Gardening was a big, peaceful thing for me last year. This year there were too many other things screaming for my attention. Hope to get back to the simplicity soon!

  • how do the tomatoes taste? same as summer grown?

  • im trying that this year. i have 6 tomato plants in a pot and am going to grow a bush indoors. it was a great producer, so i just took stems and popped them in a pot with almost 100% compost. they took off faster than scat. ill be posting videos and updates. thanks ray!

  • OMG i made and order of tomato and corn few hours back and i was searching how i can grow plant in winter and i had to discover we both thought of corn and tomato..

  • Hey vine ripened tomato is my favorite smell too!

  • Lol You tomato Luver! :) Me too.

  • how come when i take clippings of tomato's they only grow roots they dont get taller

  • @gameplay1999 They should get taller after they take time to develop roots. I'll be filming a video of how to root tomato clippings this week. I think it'll help you. :)

  • nice plant

  • nice plants! hope you get ots of tomatoes. and it looks nothing like pot. pot is more leafy and has those wonderful (no im not a junkey i just like the look of their leaves LOL!) leaves from the beginning, plus if it got as tall as a tomato plant it would die as they only last about 18 months MAX before dying off.

  • Nice!

    Thanks Ray

  • Hey Ray, what ever happened to the winder mater?

    Is it gonna be transplanted in the spring or be an outside patio plant?

  • I transplanted it into the garden in the spring. It grew insanely well. It's even featured in a video last summer demonstrating how sturdy it is and no staking needed. It grew so well that I saved the seeds from the healthiest tomatoes off it and now I'm growing those seeds. The plants are so strong and healthy that they look like hybrids. I'm going to grow one of them (I have 3) inside all summer as a houseplant. :)

  • dude, seriously if you dont show us how you mae your awsome compost i will not stop posting this message on all your vids along with what you put in it and when you turn it or if you water it, do you some special thing with it like put steroids or what?

  • pabz1995, I did. It's titled "Compost from start to finish". It's insanely potent stuff! :)

  • dis not even look like pot wtf u crazy wow every body thinks ur growin weed when u got a plant tht dont even look like weed and u got a low ass watt light right above it u got 2 get a 1800 watt light aluming paper around da plant and maybe it may look like pot but wht ever

  • I really enjoy your videos, but this one was my favorate because I live in Brooklyn New York. I dont even have a balcony only a firescape which I plan to put my tomato potted plants out this summer. I will try to grow a cherry tomato plant in my apt aswell.

  • A tough, streetwise New York tomato?? Sweet! :)

  • Do everything you can with what you have! You are doing great, hun!

  • Nice video! It is a great smell, lol. Those are some happy plants. =D

  • this vid is good and true

  • that sooooo cool i going to try this i started some plants inside and there growing i have like one living room and 2 bed rooms with nothing in it i was thinking . I wonder if i can make a green room and grow things inside now and later i going to use pots outside . I have diabetes so i need lots of veggies i can store up

  • The fresh veggies and being  outside working in your garden will definitely be a good thing to help keep your diabetes in check. If you have a sunny window, you can start your plants easily. It sure makes the winter seem less dull and boring. :)

  • So what cool things are you growing in your house this winter? :) I have a seed collection for next year.. im so excited.

  • I have three tomatoes growing from seeds that I snagged from the cherry tomatoes in the garden this fall. They're a couple inches tall already, so I should have tomatos by January! (big smile). I also have lettuce and spinach growing in a couple pots. They grow well in the shade outside so I figure they should do ok in a window in the winter sun. We'll see I guess.

  • I live in alberta canada and we have a hell of a time growing gardens here but, with florecent lights and stands we can grow our seedings. LOLOL we have to start our seedlings in december, just so we are prepared for the may long weekend.

  • i have  10 sunny windows i can use and i have some plants started already . it is 54 here today and sunny and soon it will be hot here . it is warm like april to december. christmas day it was 70 hehe thanks I hope we can become good friends here. Love you info its great!

  • @crewlla lol I live down in Toronto On and just built a greenhouse in mar 2011. best thing i could have done, before i was doing what you do, its a pain in the ass. best of luck with yours.

  • That looks awesome, when you were describing I pictured this puny little plant but then I saw it and wow it looks like its doing great!

    And what is the houseplant behind you?

    that thing looks good too

  • Hey thanks for the compliment on the plant. :)

    The one in the background is a split-leaf philodendron. It grows out of control and I have to keep chopping leaves off. If you get a second, peek at my called "My littlest friend". You can see it before I had to hack it down. :)

  • Nice video! I wish I had thought of keeping a tomato clipping. Too late now, all my tomato plants have been ripped out and tossed in the chicken pen. They went nuts! I love the tomato plant smell as well. City folks don't know what they're missing out on! I think it'd be neat to grow strawberries inside. They stay short and small as long as the runners are trimmed.

  • I can't keep adding plants inside my home or else I'll have to rototill my carpet! :)

  • great vid, I was not aware that you could start new tomatos with clippings

  • The winters in MN are long and severe. I was conditioned early to the cold. When I was old enough to clean up sticks, my father brought me and my brothers along to cut timber with a crew during the winter. My brothers and I got really used to being outside all day every day in really cold weather (-20 F some mornings). I spend 60 % of my time outside all year. I XC ski a lot. Skiing is the pinicle of my year. I ski ungroomed about 400+ miles every year. It helps make the winter a good time.

  • So does this mean you'll be making some xc skiing vids this year? It would be cool to see. I actually don't dislike winter at all, even though I was born and raised for awhile in Los Angeles. I just don't like being cooped up inside. My neighbors run sled dogs, but that's just not my thing. But let's face it, you're just vastly more energentic than me any day of the week no matter what the season. That's a given for certain. LOL

  • OMG, I Have One Of Those Kind Of Plants Behind You, There Nice, Mine Will Grow Fruit Every Once In A Good While(Like 5 Years)

  • Nice! Do you just shake the plants when it needs to be pollinated?

  • When the flowers appear, I just touch them with a finger and polinate them. Takes a couple seconds. You could use a Qtip though if you didn't want pollen on your fingers. Wasn't it you who had alot of indooer vegetable seedlings in a video? That was amazing! :) It actually inspired me to start seedlings inside in an area behind my desk next spring. I hope I don't get in over my head. lol

  • I know what you mean about that tomato smell...... Donald

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