You do know what store-bought tomatoes taste like. Yes - BLAAUGH! - (if they have any taste at all). They are picked way green, ripened with ethylene gas - and are way expensive.
Below - Here is my latest project - my indoor, year-around, vine-ripened tomato growing chamber:
Below - Here is my latest project - my indoor, year-around, vine-ripened tomato growing chamber:
Below - The Sterilite storage boxes cost less than $7 each at Home Depot. They are held together with binder clips, jumbo and large. The middle two boxes have their bottoms cut out:
Below - The tomato plant on the left (Sweet 100) doubled in height in about 11 days and is blooming. The LED arrays have the optimum red and blue wavelengths for photosynthesis. Each array costs ~$40 and they are left on continuously. The plant on the right is a Sunsugar (it was a smaller plant when purchased, but is growing rapidly also):
As time goes on I will have to learn how to control/avoid plant diseases. Also, I don't as yet know if tomato plants self pollenate.
