Hydroponic Tomato Experiment ⑩ – Bearing Fruit

This photo was taken on March 7, 2013, about one week after the pictures taken for the last article.

The plants in the unheated room came to bear fruit.

The fruit proves that the plant is growing and that the flowers were successfully pollinated. As I previously wrote, in order to pollinate the tomatoes you need to shake them. Since there is little wind in an indoor environment, you have to shake the flowers manually. Although I have no picture to show you, quite a few of the flowers I didn’t shake failed to bear fruit. Therefore, if you grow tomatoes indoors, it’s better to shake the flowers to let them pollinate. This minor effort will greatly increase the fruition.

This is the picture of all the tomato plants growing in the heated room. You can see they have grown upward.

These plants were growing steadily with a lot of fruit.

It was March. We still had cold days but the sunlight has warmer than in winter. The spring sunlight was shining on the cherry tomatoes. The green color of the young leaves sparkled in the sunlight. The plants placed by the window were in a warm environment and were able to receive good amounts of sunlight during the day. Possibly because the plants had more hours of sunlight, their s growth rate increased.