Can tomatoes be successfully grown with the trellis

bruce7267ad · April 1, 2016

So can indoor tomatoes be grown in a grow tent with the scrog method aka trellis?

Starlight · April 2, 2016

I have seen a few folks try and grow tomatoes and peppers and a few other plants totally indoors, but usually those are folks that have sun rooms . Mainly they grow indoors because they are not physically able to get outdoors and yet want to grow their own plants.

To me, personally, unless there was a physical reason for not being able to get outdoors, I wouldn't grow tomatoes and peppers inside other than to start them early.

When grown srtickly indoors, the tomatoes never really reach their full flavor or potential. The light coming through the windows or other indoor light forms will just not equal how the sun light effects all aspects of growth of the plants.

If you can, I would suggest you really consider growing the plants outdoors. We can manipulate plants to grow indoors, but nothing equals the power of the sun, wind and a refreshing rain as only mother nature can.

bruce7267ad · April 3, 2016

How about that same system of scrog but outside?

slugworth · April 3, 2016

never tried scrog,but it looks interesting.
I lack the space to spread things out.

bruce7267ad · April 3, 2016

I imagine you would have to do it higher up than some plants on account of needing room for the fruits of your labor.

bruce7267ad · April 7, 2016

Im growing under a bigger mars hydro led 900 but so far so good. I want to move them outside when the night temps are above fifty and try out the scrog method ill upload some pics. This is my first grow of tomatoes outside so i cant wait to see the diffrence

Worth1 · April 7, 2016

Well I looked up Scrog method and ended up finding nothing but pot growing.
Never heard of it before.

bruce7267ad · April 7, 2016

Yeah thats where i got the idea from those videos and pics but i would imagine with tomatoes you would have to hang the trellis up higher to get more tomatoes than not doing it. That is if they grow their flowers the same way as pot does. The main idea of the scrog is to get more flowers and a even canopy which will result in more tomatoes. Ill have to start a thread when i start my next grow

Worth1 · April 7, 2016

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Originally Posted by bruce7267ad

Yeah thats where i got the idea from those videos and pics but i would imagine with tomatoes you would have to hang the trellis up higher to get more tomatoes than not doing it. That is if they grow their flowers the same way as pot does. The main idea of the scrog is to get more flowers and a even canopy which will result in more tomatoes. Ill have to start a thread when i start my next grow

Tomatoes dont grow like pot you would want the trellis on a vertical plain not a horizontal plain I would think

Worth

bruce7267ad · April 7, 2016

That makes sense. Thats why ppl use the cages and stakes up the middle.

bruce7267ad · April 7, 2016

Worth a try tho just to see what will happen for better or worse.

Worth1 · April 7, 2016

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Originally Posted by bruce7267ad

Worth a try tho just to see what will happen for better or worse.

You always have to try.

Worth

April 1, 2016	#1
bruce7267ad Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: united states Posts: 19	Can tomatoes be successfully grown with the trellis So can indoor tomatoes be grown in a grow tent with the scrog method aka trellis? __________________ -bruce

April 3, 2016	#3
bruce7267ad Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: united states Posts: 19	How about that same system of scrog but outside? __________________ -bruce

April 3, 2016	#5
bruce7267ad Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: united states Posts: 19	I imagine you would have to do it higher up than some plants on account of needing room for the fruits of your labor. __________________ -bruce

April 7, 2016	#6
bruce7267ad Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: united states Posts: 19	Im growing under a bigger mars hydro led 900 but so far so good. I want to move them outside when the night temps are above fifty and try out the scrog method ill upload some pics. This is my first grow of tomatoes outside so i cant wait to see the diffrence __________________ -bruce

April 7, 2016	#8
bruce7267ad Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: united states Posts: 19	Yeah thats where i got the idea from those videos and pics but i would imagine with tomatoes you would have to hang the trellis up higher to get more tomatoes than not doing it. That is if they grow their flowers the same way as pot does. The main idea of the scrog is to get more flowers and a even canopy which will result in more tomatoes. Ill have to start a thread when i start my next grow __________________ -bruce

April 2, 2016	#2
Starlight Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: AL Posts: 1,993	I have seen a few folks try and grow tomatoes and peppers and a few other plants totally indoors, but usually those are folks that have sun rooms . Mainly they grow indoors because they are not physically able to get outdoors and yet want to grow their own plants. To me, personally, unless there was a physical reason for not being able to get outdoors, I wouldn't grow tomatoes and peppers inside other than to start them early. When grown srtickly indoors, the tomatoes never really reach their full flavor or potential. The light coming through the windows or other indoor light forms will just not equal how the sun light effects all aspects of growth of the plants. If you can, I would suggest you really consider growing the plants outdoors. We can manipulate plants to grow indoors, but nothing equals the power of the sun, wind and a refreshing rain as only mother nature can.

April 3, 2016	#4
slugworth Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: connecticut,usa Posts: 1,150	never tried scrog,but it looks interesting. I lack the space to spread things out.

April 7, 2016	#7
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Well I looked up Scrog method and ended up finding nothing but pot growing. Never heard of it before.