Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

I see tomatoes in my system being a problem. First of all, I have one that has gone from being 4 inches to 40 in less than a month. It is surely growing more than an inch a day. This means, I can expect to have Jack and the beanstalk before long...

The other issue of course in the tropics there is no frost - surely this thing dies eventually or surely I am going to have to prune with a machate!

My current Idea is to turn it sideways and use it to make a fence around the aquaponics system.

Tomato tree! The one at Epcot is one plant that has produced over 30,000 tomatoes.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/26/mic ... e-farming/

From "Vanessa's" comments about the article; she worked at the exhibit:

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The tomato tree…what a love/hate relationship I had with that thing, given it grew in my designated portion of the greenhouse. It was actually a clone (re: just a cutting…nothing freaky) from a plant from CHINA, not Japan like one commenter said. Unfortunately, your tour guide was ill informed as to how it produced so many tomatoes. It actually has indeterminate growth, meaning it grows as much as its training will allow. It was BRED that way, not unlike other crops selected for their high yield rates. It was not freakishly mutated. We experimented the same technique with normal garden variety eggplants, peppers, and other gourds. Its all in the way we trained the plant with trellises. There may have been a little extra nitrogen in the nutrient water to promote growth, but any gardener will tell you that they also encourage their veggies the same way.
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CRT, we pruned ours back when the vine got to about 20foot long.

Time to sharpen the machete I see...